Kit Hill Summit Chimney
The ornate summit chimney, built in 1858 for the Kit Hill Great Consols / Kit Hill United mining complex, is a famous landmark. It stands on one bastion of a pentagonal earthwork, which is thought to have been an 18th century folly. To complete the picture, below the remains of the windmill base is a Bronze Age burial mound. The chimney served a steam engine that pumped water and lifted ore from the deep mine workings beneath us; this had previously been achieved by a windmill that stood on this spot in the 1830s. A tunnel like flue, which carried arsenical fumes, is crossed on the approach to the main mine shafts. When the Toll Road was opened in 1928, and until the 1970's there was a small café here where you could get a 'cuppa' and cake, and have a go at putting.
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Keywords: callington, chimney, cornwall, england, hill, kit, mining, summit
