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Dist:0.3km<br/>High Street is actually the name of this hamlet. Behind and to the north of it, a great wall of china clay waste.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.3km<br/>
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.4km<br/>On the A3058 road a bus stop at the Hamlet of High Street. The road junction ahead is for the A3058 towards Foxhole and the Clay Country
©roger geach
Dist:0.4km<br/>I've struggled long and hard with the location of this but I think I'm right for the grid reference on the solitary engine house in the middle. Where I was stood is lost in the mists of 18 years. The engine house is one of the few with a roof and housed a 40" engine moved from a metalliferous mine at St Agnes. Here it drained a china clay pit which is now flooded as a mica dam. The engine was removed in 1944 and is in store at the Wroughton store of the Science Museum.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.7km<br/>River valleys are dammed in the china clay extraction areas to provide lakes in which fine particles of mica can settle. This prevents this waste product from going further downstream and settling in river estuaries.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.8km<br/>As the china clay industry grew so did the villages to house the workers, but mainly in a linear fashion along existing roads. This stretch of houses is called Carpalla and merges imperceptibly into Foxhole to the north.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.8km<br/>Taken from the Blackpool Trail
©mike hancock
Dist:0.9km<br/>
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.9km<br/>This square, just to the south of the china clay mining area, is predominantly agricultural.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.9km<br/>This square is almost entirely pasture land. The most interesting thing in this shot which was taken looking towards the northeast is the gigantic terraced china clay spoil heap in the distance.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:1.0km east<br/>Looking away from St Austell towards the west
©roger geach
Dist:1.0km east<br/>Looking north towards the "great wall" of china clay waste which as been carefully grassed over.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:1.1km north<br/>In the valley floor are old mica settling lakes.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>
©roger geach
Dist:1.2km northwest<br/>
©Tony Atkin

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