Wheal Kitty

Wheal Kitty
Wheal Kitty
	Wheal Kitty Location within Cornwall
Unitary authority	Cornwall;
Ceremonial county	Cornwall;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
	List of places UK England Cornwall 50°19′N 5°12′W / 50.31°N 5.2°W

Wheal Kitty is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located about half a mile north east of St Agnes on the Goonlaze Downs plateau. It contains the headquarters of Surfers Against Sewage.

Wheal Kitty Mine

The village was noted for the Wheal Kitty Mine with a depth of some 180 fathoms. In ancient times tin was mined in the area.^[1] The mine reopened in the 1830s, mining tin and copper ore but was closed in 1842 before reopening ten years later.^[1] Two Cornish engine houses and four stacks remain with a 65-inch beam engine constructed by the Perran Foundry in 1852 and installed here in 1910. It pumped water from Sara's Shaft and was reported to be some 950 feet deep.^[2] It employed about 220 people in 1914 and closed in 1930.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Gamble, Barry (April 2011). Cornish Mines: Gwennap to the Tamar. Alison Hodge Publishers. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-906720-82-0. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
^ Kenneth Brown & Bob Acton, Exploring Cornish Mines, Volume 1. Landfall Publications, 1994
^ "Wheal Kitty Mine". Cornwall Calling. Retrieved 8 October 2011.

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[Gamble2011-1] Gamble, Barry (April 2011). Cornish Mines: Gwennap to the Tamar. Alison Hodge Publishers. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-906720-82-0. Retrieved 8 October 2011.

[2] Kenneth Brown & Bob Acton, Exploring Cornish Mines, Volume 1. Landfall Publications, 1994

[3] "Wheal Kitty Mine". Cornwall Calling. Retrieved 8 October 2011.

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