Drakewalls, Cornwall
Historical Description
Drakewalls, a tin mine 5½ miles E of Collington, in Cornwall. One of its lodes is open to the surface, and a process is carried on at it for separating wolfram from the tin ore.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Drakewalls are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)