Chiverton Wheal Rose, also called Trethellan Mine, was a lead working on the northern side of the Gannel at Newquay. It adds another industrial site to an estuary more readily associated with sand, birds and boats.
The similar names need care. This is not East Wheal Rose near St Newlyn East. Nor should it be confused with the Trethellan in the Redruth mining district where children gave evidence about their work in 1841. Those accounts illuminate Cornish working life, but do not establish that the children worked here.
Its setting makes this mine relevant to the Gannel story. A position near a tidal waterway is not, by itself, proof of a particular cargo route or customer, however. The mine and the Crantock-side smelter remain separately identified places.
Where it is
Chiverton Wheal Rose / Trethellan Mine
50.408627, -5.095576 · Position source: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/memoirs/docs/B01793.html
Historic mine locality from the Geological Survey grid [SW 80145 61110]; not a surveyed shaft or visitor entrance
Visiting and access
A location reference, not confirmation of public access or a visitor entrance.
Sources
Source: https://www.mindat.org/loc-216040.html Source: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/memoirs/docs/B01793.html