Drakeland Corner

Drakeland Corner is a small, quietly charming hamlet in Devon, postcode district PL7, tucked into the mellow landscape of England’s South West. It sits within a region shaped by a strong mining heritage—most notably the Hemerdon Mine, long known by several names including Hemerdon Ball and, briefly, Drakelands Mine. Hemerdon lies about 11 km northeast of Plymouth near Plympton, to the north of the villages of Sparkwell and Hemerdon and beside the china clay pits around Lee Moor. The mine’s story is one of pauses and potential: largely dormant since 1944 save for a short trial in the 1980s, it saw renewed work begin in 2014 before activities ceased again in 2018. Globally, Hemerdon is remarkable for hosting the fourth largest tin–tungsten deposit in the world. Visitors to Drakeland Corner can enjoy the calm of a hamlet set against this evocative industrial backdrop—an understated corner of Devon where landscape and history sit side by side.