We continue our series on towns the guidebook writers skip with visits to Gillingham, Camborne, East Kilbride and Stockport
Where tourists seldom tread, parts 1-9
Chy? I wasn’t familiar with the Ordnance Survey abbreviation for chimneys until I set off to walk around the ghost mines of Camborne. On every tump stand houses for engines built to raise ore from, and drop men into, the Great Flat Lode – a rock field that coughed up 90,000 tonnes of tin, worth $3 billion at today’s rates. Chimneys. It all went up in smoke.
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