Name: PORTREATH
Council: Kerrier District Council
Location: North coast of mid-west Cornwall, three miles north of Camborne.
Main period of industrial settlement growth: 18^th century – 1910
Study Area: Camborne-Redruth
NGR: SW 65 45
Main industry: Port associated with mining

Industrial history and significance

Portreath was above all a mineral harbour. Its industrial significance is thus bound up with this link to the local copper mines, at first around Scorrier, and later Camborne. As part of the earliest phase of the development of railways, and the parallel development of railways and port development, and through its connections with some of the great Cornish industrialists (the Basset, Fox, and Williams families), Portreath occupies a key place in Cornish industrial history. It also played a role in providing a holiday base for the working populations of the Camborne-Redruth mining districts in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries.

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 Portreath Report including the core text and the six illustrative map figures
 

Title	Description	Format	Size
CISI Portreath report	Report text.		1444kb
Figure 1	Location map		492kb
Figure 2	Historical development map		559kb
Figure 3	Surviving historical components map		559kb
Figure 4	Gazetteer sites, existing designations and recommendations map		467kb
Figure 4a	"		548kb
Figure 4b	"		528kb

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