Bere Alston: grid reference SX515691

Furzehill lies one mile southwest of Bere Alston, near Tavistock. Situated to the south of Lockridge Mine and to the east of North and South Hooe Mines, Furzehill was also known as Whitstone Down Mine and also as East Tamar Mine. It is known to date from at least the 16th Century, with legal records relating to a statement by Walter Langeford in 1521 that he owned one-eighth of the tinwork and that for a long time before then he had been a part-owner of the work: ‘causyd the said. Tynworke to be wroste att their costs in soe moche that they hadde goottyn above gronde blacke Tyne to the valewe of ...’. At this time it was known as Fursse Hill and Furssebal. Indeed, these former workings were holed into in the 1860's. There are six known shafts on the mine, namely Gourd's Shaft in the north, Smith's Shaft, Engine Shaft, Caroline's Shaft, Charlotte's Shaft and Church Lane Shaft.

Production records report that as East Tamar Consols the mine raised 2,580 tons of 69% lead ore and 19,530 ounces of silver between 1845 and 1861. In 1857-58 - 1,400 tons of fluorspar was also produced.