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Visited the site over a couple of days to see what was there all in all a good explore with quiet a bit to see well worth a look if you are in the area Very little history online thanks to wiki for the info below Once Burngullow was open, the Cornwall Railway found there was a demand for...

The Cornish Alps began to dominate the landscape as every ton of usable china clay that was mined brought with it five tonnes of waste. Railways and tramways were built to transport the material to the coast. By 1910, Cornwall was producing some fifty per cent of the world's china clay...

Around the year 1784 Mr. Jonathan Catherall stated "my pottery produces mixing bowls, flower pots and bread crocks from our hard bed fireclay dug up from the hill next to our works and this is known as black pottery". Mr. James Robinson was a long standing partner until the year of 1805 when he...