St Ives to Lands End

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Gurnards Head Churn Castle to Pendeen Light | Pendeen Light comissioned in 1900, automated in 1995. The Light has a range of 16 miles. Now managed by The Trevithick Trust on behalf of Trinity House. More walk details coming soon. Visit the Levant Beam Engine or Geevor Mine Heritage Centre.

Botallack and Wheal Owles Though it is difficult to image today botallack | once provided employment for over 1000 men, women, and children. Men and boys aged over 14 would work underground, whilst the women would break the ore in all weathers on the surface. The Crowns Section -The lower of the two engine houses is in fact a winding house for the Boscawen Shaft, inclined and reaching far out under the sea, to a depth of many fathoms below adit.

A small plaque marks the Wheal Owles Mining Disaster of 10 January 1893, in which 18 men and 1 boy that lost their lives. A mass of bluebells and pink thrift in late Spring. WARNING: Shafts, adits and workings, are often unmarked and unfenced, the buildings themselves in a poor state of repair. For your own safety keep to marked paths, do not enter buildings walk over spoil tips, or enter old mine workings. Enjoy your walk.

below adit; Crowns Engine Shaft, Botallack 135 fms, Boscawen Diagonal Shaft 150 fms; Levant Skip Shaft: 230 fms

Carn Galver Mine Situated prominently by the coast road are the ruined Pumping and Winding Houses of Carn Galver Mine. At its heyday working for tin in the 1870's. Now consolidated by the National Trust. The mine takes its name from the granite outcrop on the landward side of the road The nearby counthouse is now used by the Climbers Club of Great Britain. The nearby cliffs providing some of the hardest , some may say best rock climbing routes in Cornwall. Many are graded as 'hard severe'. With names such as Zig Zag, Doorway and Commando Ridge.