Periodic Report - Second Cycle Section II-Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 1. World Heritage Property Data Tamar Valley Mining 50.517 / - 4164 ? 4164 District (010i) with 4.217 Tavistock (010ii) , 1.1 - Name of World Heritage Property Cornwall , United Kingdom of Great Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape Britain and Northern Irela 1.2 - World Heritage Property Details Total (ha) 19719 0 19719 State(s) Party(ies) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1.4 - Map(s) Title Date Link to Type of Property source cultural St Just Mining District 25/01/2005 Identification Number The Port of Hayle 25/01/2005 1215 Tregonning and Gwinear Mining Districts (A3i) with 25/01/2005 Year of inscription on the World Heritage List Trewavas (A3ii) 2006 Wendron Mining District 25/01/2005 Camborne and Redruth Mining District (A5i) with 25/01/2005 1.3 - Geographic Information Table Wheal Peevor (A5ii) and Portreath Harbour (A5iii) Name Coordinates Property Buffer Total Inscription Gwennap Mining District (A6i) with Devoran and 25/01/2005 (longitude / (ha) zone (ha) year Perran (A6ii) and Kennall Vale (A6iii) latitude) (ha) St Agnes Mining District 25/01/2005 St Just Mining District , 50.133 / -5.65 2671 ? 2671 United Kingdom of The Luxulyan Valley (A8i) and Charlestown (A8ii) 25/01/2005 Great Britain and Northern Irela Caradon Mining District 25/01/2005 The Port of Hayle , 50.183 / - 207 ? 207 Cornwall , United 5.417 Tamar Valley Mining District (A10i) with Tavistock 25/01/2005 Kingdom of Great (A10ii) Britain and Northern Irela 1.5 - Governmental Institution Responsible for the Tregonning and 50.133 / - 4484 ? 4484 Gwinear Mining 5.383 Property Districts(003i) with Christopher Young Trewavas (003ii) , Cornwall , United English Heritage Kingdom of Great Head of World International Advice Britain and Northern Irela Paul Blaker Department for Culture, Media and Sport Wendron Mining 50.15 / -5.2 810 ? 810 District , Cornwall , Head of World Heritage United Kingdom of Comment Great Britain and Northern Irela Department for Culture, Media and Sport contact now Camborne and Redruth 50.217 / -5.25 1403 ? 1403 Francesca Conlon, 4th Floor, 100 Parliament St, London Mining District(005i) SW1A 2BQ, tel +44 (0) 7211 6117, email with Wheal Peevor [email protected] (005ii) and Portreath Harbour (005iii) , Cornwall , United 1.6 - Property Manager / Coordinator, Local Institution / Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Agency Irela Ainsley Cocks Gwennap Mining 50.233 / -5.15 3045 ? 3045 Cornwall County Council District (006i) with Devoran and Perran Deborah Boden (006ii) and Kennall Vale (006iii) , Cornwall , United Kingdom of Comment Great Britain and Deborah Boden WHS Co-ordinator Cornwall Council County Northern Irela Hall Truro TR1 3AY Cornwall United Kingdom of Great Britain St Agnes Mining 50.3 / -5.2 1225 ? 1225 and Northern Ireland Telephone: 01872 323474 Email: District , Cornwall , United Kingdom of [email protected] Ainsley Cocks Reseaech and Great Britain and Information Officer County Hall Truro TR1 3AY Cornwall Northern Irela United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland The Luxulyan Valley 50.35 / -4.75 274 ? 274 Telephone: 01872 322585 Email: [email protected] (008i) and Charlestown (008ii) , Cornwall , United Kingdom of 1.7 - Web Address of the Property (if existing) Great Britain and 1. View photos from OUR PLACE the World Heritage Northern Irela collection Caradon Mining 50.5 / -4.433 1436 ? 1436 District , Cornwall , 2. www.cornish-mining.org.uk United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela Page 1 Tuesday, May 20, 2014 (8:56:53 AM CEST) Periodic Report - Section II-Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Centre Periodic Report - Second Cycle Section II-Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 1.8 - Other designations / Conventions under which the industrialisation in the United Kingdom, and consequently on property is protected (if applicable) industrialised mining around the world. Comment Criterion (iii): The extent and scope of the remains of copper and tin mining, and the associated transformation of the urban While WH sites are not specifically designated in the UK, and rural landscapes presents a vivid and legible testimony to individual part of the property are Scheduled Ancient the success of Cornish and west Devon industrialised mining Monuments, listed buildings conservation areas or included in when the area dominated the world's output of copper, tin and natural designations arsenic. Criterion (iv): The mining landscape of Cornwall and west 2. Statement of Outstanding Universal Value Devon, and particularly its characteristic engine houses and beam engines as a technological ensemble in a landscape, 2.1 - Statement of Outstanding Universal Value / reflect the substantial contribution the area made to the Statement of Significance Industrial Revolution and formative changes in mining practices around the world. Integrity (2010) Statement of Outstanding Universal Value The areas enclosed within the property satisfactorily reflect the Brief synthesis way prosperity derived from mining transformed the landscape The landscapes of Cornwall and west Devon were radically both in urban and rural areas, and encapsulates the extent of reshaped during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by those changes. deep mining for predominantly copper and tin. The remains of Some of the mining landscapes and towns within the property mines, engines houses, smallholdings, ports, harbours, are within development zones and may be vulnerable to the canals, railways, tramroads, and industries allied to mining, possibility of incompatible development. along with new towns and villages reflect an extended period Authenticity (2010) of industrial expansion and prolific innovation. Together these The property as a whole has high authenticity in terms of form, are testimony, in an inter-linked and highly legible way, to the design and materials and, in general, the location and setting sophistication and success of early, large-scale, industrialised of the surviving features. The mines, engine houses, non-ferrous hard-rock mining. The technology and associated buildings and other features have either been infrastructure developed at Cornish and west Devon mines consolidated or await work. In the villages and towns there enabled these to dominate copper, tin and later arsenic has been some loss of architectural detail, particularly in the production worldwide, and to greatly influence nineteenth terraced housing, but it is considered that this is reversible. century mining practice internationally. The ability of features within the property to continue to The extensive Site comprises the most authentic and express its Outstanding Universal Value may be reduced, historically important components of the Cornwall and west however, if developments were to be permitted without Devon mining landscape dating principally from 1700 to 1914, sufficient regard to their historic character as constituent parts the period during which the most significant industrial and of the Site. The spatial arrangements of areas such as Hayle social impacts occurred. The ten areas of the Site together Harbour and the settings of Redruth and Camborne are of form a unified, coherent cultural landscape and share a particular concern and these may be vulnerable unless common identity as part of the overall exploitation of planning policies and guidance are rigorously and consistently metalliferous minerals here from the eighteenth to twentieth applied. centuries. Copper and tin particularly were required in Protection and management requirements (2010) increasing quantities at this time through the growing needs of The UK Government protects World Heritage Sites within its British industry and commerce. Copper was used to protect territory in two ways. Firstly individual buildings, monuments, the hulls of ocean-going timber ships, for domestic ware, and gardens and landscapes are designated under the Planning as a major constituent of important alloys such as brass and, (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and the with tin, bronze. The usage of tin was also increasing greatly 1979 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act, and through the requirements of the tin plate industry, for use in secondly through the UK Spatial Planning system under the the canning of foods and in communications. provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. The substantial remains within the Site are a prominent National guidance on protecting the Historic Environment reminder of the contribution Cornwall and west Devon made to (Planning Policy Statement 5) and World Heritage (Circular the Industrial Revolution in Britain and to the fundamental 07/09) and accompanying explanatory guidance has been influence the area asserted on the development of mining published by Government. Policies to protect, promote, globally. Innovative Cornish technology embodied in high- conserve and enhance World Heritage Sites, their settings pressure steam engines and other mining equipment was and buffer zones can be found in regional plans and in local exported around the world, concurrent with the movement of authority plans and frameworks. The World Heritage mineworkers migrating to live and work in mining communities Committee accepted that the Site is adequately protected based in many instances on Cornish traditions. The transfer of through the general provisions of the UK planning system. mining technology and