Wheal Widden was a tin working in the Gear Sands area north of Perranporth, associated with the Perran Consols undertaking. It worked the western part of the Wheal Vlow lode, while Wheal Vlow’s own workings lay farther east.
That relationship is why both levels of information are useful. Perran Consols explains the combined undertaking; Wheal Widden identifies a particular set of workings. One should link to the other rather than taking over its name.
The mine belongs to the industrial history beneath the modern dune landscape. Alongside Wheal Ramoth and neighbouring workings, it helps explain why the resort’s hinterland cannot be understood solely through the beach and the later passenger railway. Its map marker is a historic locality, not an identified visitor entrance.
Where it is
Wheal Widden, Perran Consols
50.359047, -5.14401 · Position source: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/memoirs/docs/B01793.html
Historic workings, BGS grid SW7647155743; not a surveyed entrance
Visiting and access
A location reference, not confirmation of public access or a visitor entrance.
Sources
Source: https://goonhavern.com/mining/
Connected subjects
Read on
- 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.