Tywardreath: bridge abutment
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Tywardreath: bridge abutment
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 6 Oct 2010
Possibly the last vestige of the northern inclined plane linking Fowey Consols with a basin on the Par Canal. Built in 1834, and powered by a 30hp waterwheel at the incline head, the plane was used to bring materials up to the mine - for instance coal from Par harbour, to power the steam pumping engines on the mine. The mine and incline - which was in tunnel under the Lostwithiel-St Blazey road - closed in 1867. A second incline ran from Porcupine Lane to the canal basin; worked by gravity, it carried copper ores to the canal. These were then trans-shipped at Par and sailed to Swansea in south Wales for smelting [Source: Jim Lewis, A Richly Yielding Piece of Ground, Cornish Hillside Publications, 1997]. The bridge and embankment to the west were demolished long ago and a bungalow now stands on the course of the inclined plane. In Tywardreath parish
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Image Location
Latitude
50.371135
Longitude
-4.705575