The Botallack areas of Cornwall where heavily mined in this and the last century and there are mine workings and abandoned buildings all over this area, however despite this it is now one of the most beautiful places to walk and enjoy your holiday. In my opinion anyway!

If you are ever visiting Cornwall and want to see some stunning views and industrial heritage then I can heartily recommend the walk from Cape Cornwall to Pendeen which is a distance of about 4 miles and a steady pace will take about 2 hours.

The mines around Botallack and Levant are both worthy of a closer look and for those just wanting a look see there is plenty of parking close to the Botallack mine area.

The mine buildings you can see on the cliff edge are the Crown mine, those further up the hill are Wheal Owles and Wheal Martyn.

Images in this folder: Click an image to view a larger version.
1 Arsenic Work 1	2 Arsenic Works 2	3 Buddle	4 Crown Mines 1	5 Crown Mines 10	6 Crown Mines 11
7 Crown Mines 12	8 Crown Mines 2	9 Crown Mines 3	10 Crown Mines 4	11 Crown Mines 5	12 Crown Mines 6
13 Crown Mines 7	14 Crown Mines 8	15 Crown Mines 9	16 Crown Mines from above 2	17 Crown Mines from above	18 Natural Arch
19 Old tin works 1	20 Old tin works 2	21 Old tin works 3	22 Ruin of Chimmeny Stack	23 Sunset at Botallack 1	24 Sunset at Botallack 2
25 Wheal Edward	26 Wheal Owles
Click here to return to previous Page.

Share this web page with others.

top of page

Your Comments on this article:
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed below are strictly those of the individual author/poster. The views and opinions shown below are not necessarily those of Mike Porter, his associates and/or sponsors. We do not endorse any view below or necessarily agree/disagree with these views. Views posted below are entirely those of the poster, not me!

Botallack
Found this by chance - absolutely wonderful. I have some Cornish blood in me. Miss the area immensely. Know the area pretty well. Your photographs bring so much back. It really is a part of our British heritage.

Posted by: Dave House on 22 September 2008

Have something to say about this article? Post your comments here.

Please fill in all the required fields below, marked with a *

Your Name:	*	Please Note: All posts are moderated before they appear here. If you post crap then it gets deleted. Any posts with offensive words in will not be posted. All posts must be verified with the code below. Enter the text in the image below in the box where prompted. Enter the above Code here:
Your Email:	* This is required is you want a response and WILL NOT be shown on the site..
Comment Title:
Your Comments:	* You may experience problems if you copy and paste text in here. I dont know why and am investigating! You can type text in directly and it will work.
	I cannot possibly email everyone back who send messages from here. I get litterly hundreds a month. If you have a question, please post it by all means but as to whether it gets answered or not will purely depend on if I have the time or inclination to do so. All comments posted here will be published on the site as per the comments above and by posting here you agree to have these comments published.

top of page

"mike porter's - mykp.co.uk", On the web since 1995