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Dist:0.1km<br/>Polgooth is a large village stretching up the hillside from the valley bottom. Most of the village appears to be quite affluent. A favourite place to get away from it all?
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.2km<br/>The road running through the village towards London Apprentice.
©Alan Hunt
Dist:0.6km<br/>A view across the valley that separates Bosinver from Tregongeeves Farm. Bosinver Farm is now run as a self catering holiday business.
©Alan Hunt
Dist:0.6km<br/>One of the self catering apartments on this former farm.
©Alan Hunt
Dist:0.6km<br/>The fishing lake in the valley to the east of the farm.
©Alan Hunt
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©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.8km<br/>The plaque in the gable reads 'UMFC 1872' - presumably United Methodist Free Church. It is now a private dwelling.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.8km<br/>Just to the south-west of the famous Great Polgooth Mine, South Polgooth was mined for tin from the 1830s and for arsenic in 1916. Remains on this recently cleared up site include the old enginehouse and parts of an arsenic calciner and flue, which appear to have re-used the redundant engine chimney.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.8km<br/>At the top of the hill, an old mine engine house.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.8km<br/>This engine house was built in 1880 to contain a pumping engine that apparently also drove stamps. The mine closed in 1882. There was a short reworking in 1916-17 when arsenic was mined. The lodes carried copper, arsenic and Tungsten. This is in a prominent position on high ground.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.8km<br/>This enginehouse on the South Polgooth Mine is a well-known landmark on Commerce Moor near Five Lanes. The house is slowly disappearing under the ivy and starting to break up.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.8km<br/>Little Polgooth is a roadside hamlet, a few houses stretching down the road to the valley floor ahead.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.9km<br/>Junction of the old roads from Sticker to Polgooth,Little Polgooth and St. Ewe. It shows a tin mine with china clay workings to the west of St. Austell in the background.
©mike hancock
Dist:0.9km<br/>Situated on Commerce Moor near Five Lanes, to the south-west of the Great Polgooth Mine, South Polgooth was opened for tin in the 1830s. It was last worked, for arsenic, in 1916.
©John Gibson
Dist:0.9km<br/>On the high ground between Sticker and Polgooth. The hills and waste tips of the St Austell granite can be seen in the background.
©Tony Atkin

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