Wheal Baddon is a hamlet south of Baldhu in the county of Cornwall in the United Kingdom.[1]
Wheal means 'mine'.[2] The hamlet was named after the Great Wheal Baddon Mine, which operated in the area in the 1800s, According to the production records, between "1850 and 1870 the mine sold 3,379 tons of lead ore at 70% and 41,107 ounces of silver" and "Between 1854 and 1857 it raised and sold 1,137 tons of zinc ore as well as 26 tons of black tin between 1852 and 1872".[3][4][5][6]
References
edit- ^ Ordnance Survey get-a-map SW7763141868
- ^ "PLACE NAMES". domesday. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ "Mining in Cornwall Database - Great Wheal Baddon Mine, Cornwall". www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ Spargo, Thomas (1865). Statistics and Observations on the Mines of Cornwall and Devon.
- ^ Spargo, Thomas (1865). The mines of Cornwall and Devon: statistics and observations. Emily Faithfull.
- ^ Burt, Roger; Waite, Peter B; Burnley, Ray (1987). Cornish mines: metalliferous and associated minerals 1845-1913. Exeter: University of Exeter in association with the Northern Mine Research Co. ISBN 0859892875. OCLC 16014222.
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