Wheal Ramoth was a tin working in the dunes north of Perranporth. Its later history includes the recovery of tin from old mine waste, with returns recorded in the nineteenth century and into the beginning of the twentieth.
That is a useful way to understand a mining landscape after its first period of digging. Material once discarded could become worth treating when prices, machinery or methods changed. A heap that looked like the end of the story might become somebody else’s raw material.
Ramoth belongs alongside the Wheal Vlow and Wheal Widden workings in the wider dune-country story. These names should stay distinct from Wheal Leisure in the town and from the iron mines farther north-east. The locality pin identifies the historic area; it does not promise a surviving engine house or public access to workings.
Where it is
Wheal Ramoth
50.350844, -5.148613 · Position source: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/memoirs/docs/B01793.html
Historic Ramoth mine locality, BGS grid SW7610554845; not a surveyed shaft or visitor entrance
Visiting and access
A location reference, not confirmation of public access or a visitor entrance.
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- Before the Beach: Perranporth Was a Mining Town
The car-park name remembers a copper mine. A carpenter’s workshop, a chapel commission and changing mineral fortunes help put people back into the town around it.