Photo of Wheal Coates, a landmark near St Agnes, Cornwall, south west England.

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Wheal Coates

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Iconic clifftop tin-mine engine house.

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The clifftop engine house at Wheal Coates, above Chapel Porth near St Agnes, is one of the most photographed ruins in Cornwall — the Towanroath house of 1872, built to pump water from a shaft that dropped some 600 feet below. It’s part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, now looked after by the National Trust. Open access on the coast path from St Agnes; Redruth station is about 8km inland.

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