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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site

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The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site is the largest industrial World Heritage Site in the UK: 10 Areas, 200 years of innovation, exciting attractions and amazing landscapes across Cornwall and west Devon.

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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
✨ We had a fabulous time at Trevithick Day last Saturday 🚂 🙌 A big thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello and share your stories!
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
✨ We’re heading to #Trevithickday this Saturday! 🚂 Come along and visit our stand in Trelowarren Street 👋 The event marks the start of our 20th anniversary celebrations and we would love to see you there 🎉 📷 (c) Barry Gamble #trevithick #camborne #joinus #celebrate #20years #anniversaryyear
Statue of Richard Trevithick in Camborne with @cornishmining World Heritage Site 20 years logo.
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
❄️✨ Nadelik Lowen ✨❄️ 🎄The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site team wishes you a joyful, peaceful, and relaxing festive season, and a very Happy New Year 🥂
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We really enjoyed joining the Tamar Valley National Landscape to explore how former mine sites can become thriving havens for nature. Huge potential to collaborate and deliver brilliant outcomes for both mining heritage and biodiversity. tamarvalleynationallandscape.podbean.com
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Nature Connects | tamarvalleynationallandscape
Join us for an immersive walk and talk series that celebrates the stories and sounds from Tamar Valley National Landscape, on the Devon/Cornwall border. Become more connected and feel closer to Natur...
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🌟 We’re excited to announce that our team will be at the EXPO Ertach Kernow 2025 | Cornish Heritage EXPO 2025 this October! 🌟 📌 Pendennis Castle 🗓️ Fri 3rd & Sat 4th October 💷 FREE entry Find out more 👉🏻 bit.ly/46rCumJ @ciosher.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Help celebrate Cornwall’s heritage! The Distinctiveness Working Group, in collaboration with Cornwall Council’s Culture and Heritage teams, is inviting everyone to help build an inventory of Cornwall’s unique cultural traditions. Got something to share? bit.ly/47xSnu8 @ciosher.bsky.social
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Intangible Cultural Heritage
Cornish Intangible Cultural Heritage is the non-physical aspects of Cornish culture that are passed down through generations and are part of community life. It is Cornwall’s living culture and include...
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
**UPDATE** Please note that the deadline for submissions has been extended to 14th September 2025
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🌿 Consultancy Opportunity: Ecological Audit of the Cornwall & West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site 🌍 We're inviting ecological consultants to assess biodiversity & habitats across the 10 Areas of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site 📅 Deadline: 7/9/25 Details👉🏻https://bit.ly/47ubTaJ
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🎟️ Tickets for Awenek! 2025 are now live on the Cornwall Heritage Trust website 🎉 ⛏️🌿✨ 👉🏻 www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/.../awenek-t... #cornwall #celebrate #heritage #CornishHeritage #cornishculture
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🏛️🔓 The Liskeard Unlocked 2025 programme is now available. 🗓️ Get ready to explore and discover some great stories! #LiskeardUnlocked #HeritageOpenDays #Liskeard #CornwallHeritage #ArchitecturalHeritage #MiningHeritage #CaradonMiningDistrict #ExploreLiskeard #greatstories
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
📸🎬 We’re looking for photographers & filmmakers to help us capture the spirit of our World Heritage Site 🌍 ✨ Your work will be featured in our Management Plan and beyond - showcasing our #WorldClassHeritage. Discover more 👉🏻 bit.ly/3If2eKT Deadline for Expressions of Interest – 27/07/25
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🎉 Wheal Martyn is celebrating 50 incredible years of sharing Cornwall’s pioneering china clay story! As the UK’s only china clay mining museum, it’s the perfect time to visit. Special events & memories await in the heart of Clay Country 👇🏻 bit.ly/4nqmPfi #celebrate #50years #sharingstories
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50 years of keeping Cornwall’s pioneering china clay industry story alive
As the UK’s only china clay mining museum, we are celebrating our 50th anniversary this year.
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Butterfly Conservation Cornwall have a packed programme of field trips and events including locations in the mining landscape ⛏️ Look out for: 🦋 Saturday 31st May – Chapel Porth 🦋 Sunday 8th June – Greenscombe Woods 🦋 Thursday 3rd July – Carnon Valley 🦋 Wednesday 23rd July – Wheal Fortune and Cusvey
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
⭐ Great news from the Tamar Valley National Landscape ⭐ 🚤 The Calstock Ferry is back – and this time it’s powered by the sun! 🌞 Discover the story at bit.ly/4dtsJrr
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The Calstock Ferry, one of England’s oldest passenger ferries is back, powered by the sun - TAMARA LANDSCAPE PARTNERSHIP
One of England’s oldest ferry routes is being brought back to life as the Calstock Ferry resumes service across the River Tamar - this time powered entirely by the sun.
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Grab your calendar and note down the date! Awenek is back in 2025 🎉 Cornwall Heritage Trust's fantastic celebration of all things heritage is at a new venue this year. We will be there so please come along and say hello 👋🏻 Find out more 👉🏻 bit.ly/44Mu8XV
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
What a brilliant start to The Devonshire Association's Celebrating Devon's World-Class Heritage events 🎉 It was great to be a part of the Discovery Day of Talks in Tavistock Town Hall last Saturday. Look out for the Discovery Day of Walks focusing on Tavistock and Devon Great Consols coming up soon!
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Discover our new Visit pages on the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site website! The launch coincides with #WorldHeritageDay the perfect opportunity to focus on the World Class Heritage of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. www.cornishmining.org.uk/visit
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We are delighted to have been awarded funding from the @cornwall-landscape.bsky.social as part of the Access for All grant programme. Working with @sensory-trust.bsky.social we have created some new online resources for St Agnes and St Just Mining Districts. www.cornishmining.org.uk/about/news/a...
Crowns Engine House St Just Mining District, Wheal Coates St Agnes Mining District. Cornish Mining World Heritage Site - Access for All
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🗓️ Coming soon... Join Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group for a day exploring Tinworking Remains around Princetown ⛏️ 👇🏻
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Cornwall Council are recruiting a Museum Development Officer Find out more and apply for the post below 👇🏻 🗓️ Closing date: 07/04/2025
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Museum Development Officer
Cornwall Council is looking for a new Museums Development Officer to provide expert support and advice to museums in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and to contribute to the delivery of the Museums ...
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Cornwall & Isles of Scilly HER @ciosher.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Fancy joining our team? We're recruiting for a Historic Environment Records (HER) Officer! This will be a full time & permanent position, for more information - and to apply! - head on over to the job listing: ehgv.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🖤🤍 Gool Peran Lowen! 🖤🤍 Happy St Piran's Day from all of us at the @cornishmining.bsky.social #stpiransday #cornwall #celebrate #cornish 📷 Image - Levant Mine (c) Ainsley Cocks
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
✍🏻 Over in Area A10 - the Tavistock Conservation Area Appraisal & Management Plan public consultation is now live! Have your say 👇🏻 tavistock-caa.commonplace.is #tavistock #devon #worldheritagesite #YourViewsMatter #HaveYourSay
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Tavistock Conservation Area Appraisal Addendum and Management Plan - Have Your Say
Have your say on the conservation area of Tavistock, a unique stannary town in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape. The town's conservation area looks to co...
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Fantastic news for Wheal Martyn 🎉 www.wheal-martyn.com/news/wheal-m...
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Wheal Martyn set to benefit from Arts Council England funding
Wheal Martyn is is one of four museums in the South West to receive funding from Arts Council England.
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
📢 What at great opportunity to discover the Grade II-listed Tolgus Tin Mill – the last of its kind in Cornwall. Free tours on Sunday 15th and 22nd February at 1pm. Find out more 👇🏻 www.cornwall-gold.com/whats-on/fre...
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Free Tolgus Tin Mill Tour
Join a free Tolgus Tin Mill tour at Cornwall Gold this February - there’s so much to do including eat award-winning food, pan for gold and shop Tolgus jewellery.
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Cornwall & Isles of Scilly HER @ciosher.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Census provides evidence of the importance of our rural creative economy, including heritage crafts! By taking part, you're helping us to make the case for funding & investment You'll also help us to understand what support the sector really needs Deadline 6th March: bit.ly/cornwallscre...
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
📢 What at great opportunity to discover the Grade II-listed Tolgus Tin Mill – the last of its kind in Cornwall. Free tours on Sunday 15th and 22nd February at 1pm. Find out more 👇🏻 www.cornwall-gold.com/whats-on/fre...
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Free Tolgus Tin Mill Tour
Join a free Tolgus Tin Mill tour at Cornwall Gold this February - there’s so much to do including eat award-winning food, pan for gold and shop Tolgus jewellery.
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The UK National Commission for @unesco.bsky.social in the UK has officially launched its new website. You can now discover the UK’s extraordinary network of UNESCO Designations all showcased in one place. Take a look - unesco.org.uk
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UNESCO in the UK | Building lasting peace through education, the sciences, culture, communication & information.
An independent body, the National Commission is a constitutional part of the UK's membership of UNESCO. We are the central hub for all UNESCO-related matters in the UK.
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Wow! We are loving those #blueskies in Tavistock today 😎💙 #Tavistock #tavistocktownhall #Devon #worldheritage #worldheritagesite 📷 All images (c) Lesley Strong
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We are delighted to be working in partnership with Screen Cornwall on a new 360 film focussing on PLACE - sharing the story of Cornwall's physical landscape and its impact on industries and communities over the past, present and future. Commissions are now open - Find out more below bit.ly/3Q1p1Kt
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Two new 360 film commissioning opportunities — Screen Cornwall
Screen Cornwall are delighted to invite ideas for two new 360 immersive film commissions. In partnership with the West Devon…
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Cornwall & Isles of Scilly HER @ciosher.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Our Heritage Strategy, developed in partnership with Bord Ertach Kernow, has just been updated! You can find out more & read 'Heritage at the Heart of an Evolving Cornwall: A Strategy for Cornwall’s Historic Environment (2022 - 2030)' here: letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk/heritage-str...
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Heritage at the Heart of an Evolving Cornwall: A Strategy for Cornwall's Historic Environment (2022 - 2030)
In order to make good decisions about how Cornwall changes in the future we need to understand its past. Heritage at the Heart of an Evolving Cornwall: A Strategy for Cornwall’s Historic Environment (...
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Voting is now live for the Cornwall Heritage Awards 2025 Object of the Year, and we are delighted to be supporting the awards again this year. You can read about the objects and cast your vote at 👉🏻 letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk/culture-hub/... #celebrate #heritage #awards #cornwall #YourVoteMatters
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Bord Ertach Kernow are inviting expressions of interest from exhibitors, stallholders, performers and demonstrators for the 2025 Cornish Heritage EXPO in October. EOI deadline is 7 February. Find out more at letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk/heritage-exp... #cornwall #CelebratingHeritage #cornishheritage
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Heritage Expo 2025
EXPO Ertach Kernow |Cornish Heritage EXPO 2025 Friday 3 & Saturday 4 October 2025, Pendennis Castle, Falmouth Pendennis CastleJoin Bord Ertach Kernow/Cornish Heritage Board at Pendennis Castle to ...
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Cornish Mining World Heritage Site @cornishmining.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Hello, we are delighted to join the BlueSky community and to share World Class Heritage, Outstanding Landscapes and Amazing Stories from the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. Discover more at www.cornishmining.org.uk 📷 Botallack Crowns Engine Houses (c) Ainsley Cocks
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