Add a picture, leave a message or tell me about a missing place.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add a pictureShare what you foundAdd a new placeWhat is recorded here
This black commemorative plaque records: Wheal Basset Stamps Engine House. This 1868 building housed two 30-inch cylinder rotative beam engines that drove 96 heads of stamps for crushing ore. After becoming part of Basset Mines Ltd in 1896, the dressing floors were mechanised and worked until the mine closed in 1918. Mineral Tramways. Recorded plaque organisation: Mineral Tramways Project.
A plaque record does not grant entry to a building or private land. View it from a public place unless permission is clearly given.