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Name:
GUNNISLAKE
Council:
Caradon District Council
Main period of
industrial settlement growth:
1842-1882
Study Area: Tamar Valley
NGR:
SX 43250 71632 (centre)
Main industry:
Mining, quarries, and brickworks
Industrial history and
significance
All the housing chapels, shops, commercial and
public buildings in the settlement developed as a direct result of the
needs of the industrial workers and their families. More akin to the
earlier industrial developments of West Cornwall than most contemporary
industrial settlements in East Cornwall, the workers’ housing was built in
and amongst the industry, quarries and mine dumps and as a result the
industrial and domestic architecture was interwoven, at first lacking any
overall or coherent plan. Gunnislake is unusual in the wide range of
industries that took place so close to a major river/port facility and a
major transport focus. The influence of the quarries, brickworks and terra
cotta works is evident throughout the town as used for local building
materials. Gunnislake has particular significance, however, in showing the
process whereby such disparate, uncontrolled and seemingly random
developments could coalesce and create a recognisable and distinctive
place. The role of the important and ever-changing road and communication
patterns in this process was of paramount importance, as was the addition
to the ‘organic’ core area of a planned settlement of smallholdings - a
‘location’ settlement - that places Gunnislake in a particular category of
Cornish industrial settlements.
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 Gunnislake Report including the core text and the
four illustrative map figures.
| Title | Description | Format | Size |
| CISI Gunnislake report | Report text. |
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1.2mb |
| Figure 1 | Location map |
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678kb |
| Figure 2a | Historical development map |
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429kb |
| Figure 2b | " |
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331kb |
| Figure 3a | Surviving historical components map |
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364kb |
| Figure 3b | " |
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324kb |
| Figure 4a | Gazetteer sites, existing designations and recommendations map |
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424kb |
| Figure 4b | " |
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390kb |