Bushdown Mine, Devon
Bovey Tracey: grid reference SX680818
Bushdown mine is situated just to the north of the Birch Tor and Vitifer sett in Central Dartmoor, to the west of the Moretonhampstead to Tavistock road. The mine worked lodes trending SE-NW for tin.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Birch Tor and Vitifer (approx. 1.2 km; TIN & IRON ORE)
Wheal Caroline (approx. 1.4 km; TIN)
Golden Dagger (approx. 1.6 km; TIN)
Great Wheal Eleanor (approx. 5.7 km; TIN)
Great Weeke Consols (approx. 6.7 km; TIN)
Brimpts North (approx. 7.2 km; TIN)
Brimpts South (approx. 8.1 km; TIN)
Hemsworthy (approx. 8.7 km; TIN)
Steeperton Tor Mine (approx. 9.3 km; TIN)
Hexworthy (approx. 9.4 km; TIN)
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