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Botallack is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road. The village is in a former tin mining area situated between the town of St Just in Penwith {where the 2011 Census population was included} and the village of Pendeen.The Botallack Mine, former tin mines, are low down the cliffs north of Botallack. The BBC television series Poldark was filmed partly in Botallack, using Manor Farm as Nampara.Lae Maen Veor , or Botallack Head, is a headland to the north west of Botallack. The local community radio station is Coast FM , which broadcasts on 96.5 and 97.2 FM.
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  • 1. The Count House Botallack
    Tin mining in Britain took place from prehistoric times, during Bronze Age Britain, and until the 20th century. Mention of tin mining in Britain was made by many Classical writers. Tin is necessary to smelt bronze so without tin there could not have been the Bronze Age. As South-West Britain was one of the few parts of Anglian stage England to escape glaciation, tin ore was readily available on the surface. Originally it is likely that cassiterite alluvial deposits in the gravels of streams were exploited but later underground working took place. Shallow cuttings were then used to extract ore. In the 19th century advances in mining engineering enabled the exploitation of much deeper mines. In a few cases these mines even extended both to multiple levels and workings below the seabed.
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