“Both these mines [East Wheal Charlotte and Wheal Freedom] lie on the north side of Chapel Coombe about 800 yds. from the sea and several E.N.E. trending lodes are reputed to occur there.”

• Dines

“The old mines appear to have worked for short intermittent periods, more, it would seem, on the strength of the reputation of their neighbours than on that of their own deposits. The only records of output are 90 tons of 64 per cent copper ore in 1828, 1829 and 1862. During a short period of activity 13½ tons of black tin were recovered in 1908 and 1909.”

• Dines

Towards the end of World War II, circa 1947, a new shaft was sunk in the East Wheal Charlotte sett on the moor above the North side of Chapel Combe. This was primarily a hobby project by a group of young men (and their terrier) which is documented in L. J. Bullen’s 2005 memoir “Wheal Noweth (New Mine)” in the NMRS’s British Mining No. 78.

Pin represents location of middle (?) adit entrance. Most shafts are ~500m to the North.

Much of the mine, such as the shafts and accessible adit, are on CRoW land, but the entrances are very overgrown in bracken and may be hard to find.