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Merrivale (Lower) Tin Blowing House (United Kingdom)


Excellent, easy to access blowing house with remains of hearth, drip trough and mould stone.

No contemporary record of the site has survived; nor has it done for either of the other excellently preserved blowing houses upstream. The general construction appears however to discount the likelyhood that these are pre-reformation examples and probably date to the mid 16th - late 17th centuries; or later. All sites in Merrivale are of similar build and believed could be contemporary, maybe suggesting a feud of business interests.

Data courtesy of Ben Sum, Helston (8/6/20)

References:
The Devon Tin Industry 1450-1750 - T Greeves, 1981, p358
OS 1905 25"

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Other location/mapping information:

Latitude: 50.5597765634445
Longitude: -4.04597922876818
Landranger grid reference: SX551754
Easting: 255100
Northing: 075400

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