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Upper Tip

Wheal Exmouth, Christow, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK

From the top looking back towards the road and river.
Copyright: © Virginia Maine - please credit use      Photo ID: 1670663     Uploaded by: Virginia Maine   Upload date: 2026-03-12   View Count: 19   Approval status: Public galleries    Type: Photo - 4080 x 3060 pixels (12.5 Mpix)

Upper Tip

Wheal Exmouth, Christow, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK

Looking back down the site. This tip is not down a slope but is stand-alone to give some sense of its size.
Copyright: © Virginia Maine - please credit use      Photo ID: 1670654     Uploaded by: Virginia Maine   Upload date: 2026-03-12   View Count: 15   Approval status: Public galleries    Type: Photo - 4080 x 3060 pixels (12.5 Mpix)

Upper Tip

Wheal Exmouth, Christow, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK

This tip now produces probably the better specimens and is at the top end of the site. The engine house is further on to the left but the whole area has been extensively reclaimed by trees since my first visit 18 years ago.
Copyright: © Virginia Maine - please credit use      Photo ID: 1670651     Uploaded by: Virginia Maine   Upload date: 2026-03-12   View Count: 13   Approval status: Public galleries    Type: Photo - 4080 x 3060 pixels (12.5 Mpix)

Main Tips

Wheal Exmouth, Christow, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK

Looking back towards the road and river.
Copyright: © Virginia Maine - please credit use      Photo ID: 1670648     Uploaded by: Virginia Maine   Upload date: 2026-03-12   View Count: 10   Approval status: Public galleries    Type: Photo - 4080 x 3060 pixels (12.5 Mpix)

Riverside Tip

Wheal Exmouth, Christow, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK

The 2 posts were legs of the aerial runway.
Copyright: © Virginia Maine - please credit use      Photo ID: 1670645     Uploaded by: Virginia Maine   Upload date: 2026-03-12   View Count: 13   Approval status: Public galleries    Type: Photo - 4080 x 3060 pixels (12.5 Mpix)

Main Mine Site

Wheal Exmouth, Christow, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK

The stream runs just behind the patch of green plants, one tributary flowing down through the main site, the other is outflow from the adit off to the right.
Copyright: © Virginia Maine - please credit use      Photo ID: 1670639     Uploaded by: Virginia Maine   Upload date: 2026-03-12   View Count: 11   Approval status: Public galleries    Type: Photo - 4080 x 3060 pixels (12.5 Mpix)

Tips

Wheal Exmouth, Christow, Teignbridge, Devon, England, UK

View from the tip by the river across the road. The adit entrance is directly below the dip in the tree line just off to the right of centre.
Copyright: © Virginia Maine - please credit use      Photo ID: 1670636     Uploaded by: Virginia Maine   Upload date: 2026-03-12   View Count: 10   Approval status: Public galleries    Type: Photo - 4080 x 3060 pixels (12.5 Mpix)

Exploratory Pits

Eldon Hill Mine, Peak Forest, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK

The area has mostly become grassed over with the shaft collar in the distance looking eastward.
Copyright: © Virginia Maine (please credit use)      Photo ID: 1496477     Uploaded by: Virginia Maine   Upload date: 2025-05-19   View Count: 64   Approval status: Public galleries    Type: Photo - 4080 x 3060 pixels (12.5 Mpix)

Shaft Collar (?)

Eldon Hill Mine, Peak Forest, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK

The area has become completely grassed over.
Copyright: © Virginia Maine (please credit use)      Photo ID: 1496474     Uploaded by: Virginia Maine   Upload date: 2025-05-19   View Count: 63   Approval status: Public galleries    Type: Photo - 4608 x 3456 pixels (15.9 Mpix)

Shaft Collar (?)

Eldon Hill Mine, Peak Forest, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK

The area has mostly become grassed over with this small exposure of spoil.
Copyright: © Virginia Maine (please credit use)      Photo ID: 1496471     Uploaded by: Virginia Maine   Upload date: 2025-05-19   View Count: 63   Approval status: Public galleries    Type: Photo - 4608 x 3456 pixels (15.9 Mpix)
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