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Poldark Mine

Trew, Cornwall

Wendron, Helston TR13 0ER

Apr-Oct daily 10am-5:30pm

paid

About Poldark Mine

Visitors descend into the very shafts and adits of Wheal Roots, a real eighteenth-century tin mine that became famous through the Poldark television series filmed nearby. Guided underground tours reveal the cramped, candlelit conditions in which miners worked for just a few pence a day — a visceral encounter with industrial history beneath the Cornish hills.
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