Name: TUCKINGMILL & ROSKEAR
Council: Kerrier District Council
Location: Mid-west Cornwall north of Carn Brea, in the Redruth-Camborne conurbation.
Main period of industrial settlement growth: 1830-80;1900-08; 1920s
Study Area: Camborne/Redruth
NGR: SW 6540
Main industry: Copper and tin mining/ engineering/ fuseworks and other ancillary manufacturing

Industrial history and significance

·         Tuckingmill, at the heart of the principal Cornish industrial zone, is one of the best places in Cornwall to get a feel for the incorporation of industry within the urban environment– there are few better places where the visible remains of a whole range of industries can be discerned from the earliest times right through to the 1990s.

·         It contained within its boundaries some of the greatest of all Cornish mines (including Dolcoath) as well as the last surviving (South Crofty), and the Red River Valley was a dense network of mills, tin streaming, tailings works and arsenic works.

·         It was served by one of the earlier and more successful mineral railways in Britain.

·         More than this, Tuckingmill was the site of major manufacturing complexes of some of the best known companies in Cornwall – Bickford-Smith, Vivians, Bartles, Holmans, Bennets, the Climax Rock Drill company; exceptionally important groups of buildings relating to these still survive.

·         As a settlement, although it never grew to rival Camborne or Redruth, it contains within a small area one of the most representative collections of buildings and structures across a wide date range, set in a unique townscape preserving much of its pre-industrial topography.

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 Tuckingmill - Roskear Report including the core text and the seven illustrative map figures
 

Title	Description	Format	Size
CISI Tuckingmill - Roskear report	Report text.		864kb
Figure 1	Location map		822kb
Figure 2	Historical development map		1037kb
Figure 3	Surviving historic components map		1037kb
Figure 4	Gazetteer sites, existing designations and recommendations map		1087kb
Figure 4a	"		710kb
Figure 4b	"		656kb
Figure 4c	"		721kb

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