Great Wheal Eleanor Mine, Devon
Moretonhampstead: grid reference SX735833
A tin mine situated about half a mile to the southwest of North Bovey, near Moretonhampstead on Dartmoor. The mine worked a tin lode from Engine Shaft and New Shaft.
The only record of output is 20 tons of black tin between 1876 and 1880.
Other nearby mines and their main ores
Great Weeke Consols (approx. 4.9 km; TIN)
Birch Tor and Vitifer (approx. 5.4 km; TIN & IRON ORE)
Bushdown (approx. 5.7 km)
Golden Dagger (approx. 6.1 km; TIN)
Yarner (approx. 6.9 km; COPPER, PYRITE & ARSENOPYRITE)
Wheal Caroline (approx. 6.9 km; TIN)
Haytor Mine (approx. 7.2 km; IRON ORE & MAGNETITE)
Hemsworthy (approx. 7.3 km; TIN)
Crownley Parks (approx. 7.8 km; TIN)
Bagtor Mine (approx. 7.9 km; TIN)
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