Without argument the area
Carn Brea Tin and Copper mining complex. Carn Brea was the most important and complex of the mining districts in Cornwall and West Devon, containing the majority of its most significant mines and key industrial enterprise. It was the home and workplace of many of the key figures in the development of mining and allied technologies and witnessed the most widespread urbanisation of what had historically been a rural landscapelandscape.

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