Hobboys Mine

Tin Mine

Worked from 18th.C. to 1878

Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot

	Cornwall
	St. Just
	50.122623, -5.65603
	SW 3877 3113
	Open Access
	175m
	#8,389

Description

Part of Balleswidden. The middle section of Balleswidden Mine, identified by extensive, densely overgrown dumps and a chimney near the road to St Just, west of the Leswidden concrete works, corresponds to the site of Hobboys Mine. Operating in intervals between 1837, 1841, and from 1873 to 1878, Hobboys Mine extracted 52 tons of black tin.

History

18th.C. 1837 1841 1873-1878

Sites within 2km (15)

Bostraze - 214m
Bostraze Tregaseal - 240m
Balleswidden - 264m
Davy's Shaft Mine - 381m
Augusta, Wheal - 643m
East Balleswidden - 761m
East Botallack - 823m
Croft an Vor - 860m
Leswidden - 900m
Boswarlas - 1,205m
Botrea - 1,498m
Buller - 1,517m
Bartinney - 1,707m
East Boscean - 1,805m
Ellen, Wheal - 1,878m