Name: CAMBORNE
Council: Kerrier District Council
Location: Mid-west Cornwall
Main period of industrial settlement growth: 1820 - 1925
Study Area: Camborne-Redruth
NGR: SW 6440
Main industry: Mining and engineering

Industrial history and significance

Camborne is central to understanding the history of Cornish and world metal mining.  Despite an underlying pre-industrial base, it is in its present form strongly industrial in character. It is one of the best places in Cornwall to trace the effects of the sudden booms and recessions that characterised Cornish mining, and in particular the rapid recovery of the copper industry in the late 18^th/early 19^th centuries. It was also home to Trevithick and other leading engineers who had such a profound effect on world mining. 

This settlement forms part of the proposed Cornwall & west Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site Bid, and is considered an important part of the context for the Bid.

Downloads:

The downloads offered below represent the different elements of the CISI Camborne Report including the core text and the nine illustrative map figures.
 

Title	Description	Format	Size
CISI Camborne report	Report text.		981kb
Figure 1	Location map		766kb
Figure 2	Historical development map		1178kb
Figure 2a	"		680kb
Figure 3	Surviving historical components map		1387kb
Figure 3a	"		696kb
Figure 4	Gazetteer sites, existing designations and recommendations map		1577kb
Figure 4a	"		855kb
Figure 4b	"		1315kb
Figure 4c	"		1216kb

Last Updated: 08/01/2004. © Cornwall County Council, Historic Environment Service.