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Map of SSSIs in Cornwall within the UK St Michael's Mount, a SSSI in west Cornwall There are 167 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly ). Cornwall , in the south-west of England, UK, has a population of 575,413 (2022) across an area of 3,545 km 2 (875,988.6 acres), making it one of the least ...
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the Isles of Scilly (19 P) Pages in category "Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall" The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total.
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall (1 C, 121 P) Pages in category "Science and technology in Cornwall" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Wheal Fortune or Great Wheal Fortune is the site of a mine in the civil parishes of Breage and Sithney in west Cornwall.Part of the disused mine was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its geological interest in 1991 and is also a Geological Conservation Review site of national importance for the minerals on the site.
The site was chosen as the research site because the granite in the area has the highest heat flow in England (120 milliwatts per square metre). [2] The trials began in 1977 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis and an earlier trial in the United States at Fenton Hill. The trials at Rosemanowes concluded in 1980, although studies continued until ...
The Ding Dong mines lie in an old and extensive mining area in the parish of Madron, in Penwith, Cornwall. They are about two miles north east of the St Just to Penzance road and look over Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount to the south west. Since 2006 the site has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site, part of Cornwall and West Devon Mining ...
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The 0.6-hectare (1.5-acre) SSSI, notified in 2000, comprises three separate sites that are all about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the town of St Austell. [1] [2] They all lie within china clay workings which are still active and are situated on either pits, spoil tips or vegetation-covered granitic debris. [3]