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About St Day
Until nearby Redruth adopted the title, St Day was the centre of mining in mid-Cornwall and evidence of this can still be found in the numerous terraces of granite cottages dotted around the area and built to accommodate the growing numbers of miners at the time. Interestingly, mining in this area didn't spawn a large industrial town typical of other parts of Britain, but many large villages like St Day and its neighbours Chacewater and Carharrack. Originally, the mining industry here revolved around the extraction of tin in the 1500 and 1600s, but latterly in the 18th century it was copper seams in the area which were being exploited, with the area reaching maximum production in the early 1800s. At the time this area with its many…...
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