page_title: Calstock
section_title: Mining
hierarchical_section_title: Calstock / Industries / Mining
caption_attribution_description: English: Danescombe Valley Mine Buildings The nearer building is believed to have been the mine counting house and the one behind it the engine house for an adjacent mine shaft with its chimney a little way up the hill behind. Both houses have now been converted for use as National Trust holiday accommodation.
context_page_description: Calstock is a civil parish and a large village in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the border with Devon. The village is situated on the River Tamar 6 miles south west of Tavistock and 10 miles north of Plymouth.
  The parish had a population of 6,095 in the 2001 census. This had increased to 6,431 at the 2011 census. The parish encompasses 5,760 acres of land, 70 acres of water, and 44 acres of the tidal Tamar.
  As well as Calstock, other settlements in the parish include Albaston, Chilsworthy, Gunnislake, Harrowbarrow, Latchley, Metherell, Coxpark, Dimson, Drakewalls, Norris Green, Rising Sun and St Ann's Chapel.
  Calstock village is within the Tamar Valley AONB, is overlooked by Cotehele house and gardens, and lies on the scenic Tamar Valley railway. Calstock railway station opened on 2 March 1908. The village is twinned with Saint-Thuriau in Brittany, France.
context_section_description: Mining was important in Calstock from Mediaeval times, with the Duchy mining silver. The industry was booming in the late 19th century, and the discovery of copper, coupled with nearby granite quarrying, made Calstock a busy port. The rapid population boom due to the growth of industry led, in 1849, to an outbreak of cholera. The industry declined in the early 20th century due to foreign competition, and now only the ruined pump houses that dot the landscape remain.
  Calstock had much mining activity, principally;
  Cotehele Consol - copper and arsenic
  Calstock Consol - copper
  Okeltor Consol - copper, tin and arsenic, mined silver and copper up until 1877
  Wheal Trelawny - copper, very close to Okeltor Consols
  Dansecombe Mines - copper, tin and arsenic
  Wheal Zion - copper
  Wheal Edward - copper and arsenic
  Wheal Arthur - copper and arsenic, directly east of Wheal Edward
caption: Cotehele Consols captain's house and wheel house, now holiday homes on the Cotehele Estate.
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