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Gwennap at a glance

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Tucked amidst the rolling, gorse studded hills of West Cornwall, Gwennap hums with a quiet, resilient spirit. Far from the coast's bustling shores, this is a landscape steeped in the echoes of a colossal industrial past. It's a place where history isn't just told, but felt in the very air, a testament to Cornish ingenuity

Gwennap’s name, from the Cornish for 'a spring near a valley', hints at its ancient roots, but it truly exploded onto the world stage during the 18th and 19th centuries. This was the epicentre of Cornwall's colossal copper boom, a landscape scarred and shaped by thousands of mines reaching astonishing depths. It was here that

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