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Penpillick, PAR, PL24 2RU

The escape lane offers a safe zone for vehicles, particularly lorries, to get off the road if their brakes fail or prove to be insufficient for the hill.

Carved stone post by the A390, in parish of TYWARDREATH (RESTORMEL District), Penpillick Hill, opposite escape road, by the road, on West side of road. St Austell Roman stone, erected by the St Austell & Lostwithiel turnpike trust in the 18th century. Inscription reads:- St AUSTEL Vi TRURO XIX Grade II Listed. List Entry Number:1396198 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1396198 Milestone Society National ID: CW_TOSA19.

Carved stone post by the A390, in parish of TYWARDREATH (RESTORMEL District), Penpillick Hill, opposite escape road, by the road, on West side of road. St Austell Roman stone, erected by the St Austell & Lostwithiel turnpike trust in the 18th century. Inscription reads:- Sᵀ AUSTEL Vi TRURO XIX Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1396198 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1396198 Milestone Society National ID: CW_TOSA19.

The A390 passing through the small hamlet of Porcupine in Cornwall, near St Blazey.

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

A no-through road leading to a car park at the foot of the Luxulyan valley

Fowey Consols was a successful copper mine and between 1822 and closure in 1867 produced over 315,000 tons of 8% copper ore and much smaller amounts of zinc ore, pyrites and nickel. During the mine's life it had at least ten Cornish beam engines but by far the most renowned was the one in this building from 1834 to some time after the mine's closure. Austen's 80-inch Cornish beam pump was designed by William West and constructed by Harvey & Company of Hayle. It was set to work in 1834 and its moment of fame came following a 24 hour trial on 23rd October 1835 when it achieved the stupendous 'duty' of 125,095,713 foot pounds (pounds of water raised one foot) on a bushel of coal. This record breaking duty was fiercely disputed and never to be repeated but was instrumental in bringing the engine to the attention of waterworks' engineers who adopted the Cornish engine. The empty house remains as a silent testament to a famous machine.