East Wheal Rose - danger deep water
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The photograph on this page of East Wheal Rose - danger deep water by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
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East Wheal Rose - danger deep water
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 7 Jun 2016
You don't say! This is the shaft in front of the East Wheal Rose Cornish beam engine. The shaft is 160 fathoms (960' deep) or about 10 times the height of the massive engine house at the top of the picture. As you can see it is flooded to 'ground' to use the Cornish term. Some mines had a drainage tunnel below ground level, known as an adit, and these are now all flooded to adit level. Many shafts are still open and must be avoided on pain of death.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.362125
Longitude
-5.040867