UK Grid Reference: SX757721
Latitude: 50°32'5"N
Longitude: 3°45'14"W
A tin, copper and manganese(?) mine. The dressing floors are at the bottom of the valley alongside the main stream, with an adit just upslope. A series of (5/) shafts and (2?) adits then trends eastward up the hill, all much overgrown.
Shown as Widdon Smelting House, Tin and Copper Mine on Donn's 1765 map of Devon. Worked on various occasions in the 18th & 19th centuries, the mine was reopened again in 1845 and continued until 1851, when it was put up for sale.
Arrangements to rework the set as Whiddon and Brownshill Mine in 1859 and test the lodes below adit appear to have been unsuccessful as only small-scale working was in evidence in 1870, with nothing below adit.
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References
Dines,H.G., (1956), Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England pt2, HMSO, London.
Hamilton Jenkin, A.K. (1981): The Mines of Devon : North & East of Dartmoor, Devon Library Services : Exeter
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