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The cafe is situated opposite the junction between the B3306 and the B3318.
©Ian Cunliffe
Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Row17
Dist:0.2km north<br/>An imposing property dating from the latter half of the C19th, now the centre of a caravan site and in a fairly dilapidated state.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Removal of picture.
©Row17
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Dated 1908, now in a sorry state.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.3km north<br/>A hostelry in a Penwith mining village at the junction of the B3306 with the B3318.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Row17
Dist:0.7km north<br/>Taken from Levant Road, this is Higher Bal (= mine). The engine house had a 35" Cornish winding and pumping engine. The retaining walls contain two well-preserved ore chutes and two arched entrances, the taller leading to the steps up to the mine and the shorter giving access to Guide Shaft.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.7km north<br/>Originally Spearne Consols, this sett was absorbed by Levant Mine in 1877 and became known as Higher Bal (bal = mine in Cornish). It lies beside the little road from Trewellard to the main Levant site. The engine house contained a 35" cylinder Cornish engine that pumped and wound from Guide Shaft, situated behind the masonry walls to the left of the picture.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.7km north<br/>
©Roy Hughes
Dist:0.7km north<br/>
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.7km north<br/>This 35" winding and pumping engine house worked Guide Shaft, underneath the safety grill in the foreground. Higher Bal was originally Spearne Consols and was incorporated with Levant Mine in 1877. The site has been consolidated and made safe in recent years by the National Trust.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.7km north<br/>This is a view down Guide Shaft at Higher Bal, used for pumping and winding. Access to this viewing point is via the short arched tunnel that leads from the side of Levant Road, just below Trewellard.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.8km north<br/>This picture was taken On August 3rd 2008 in what must be one of the worst summers in living memory
©M Hunter
Dist:0.8km northwest<br/>House at Trewellard in the background. The shaft is grated but it is still a stomach churning experience to look down it as it is several thousand feet deep.
©M Hunter

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