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New Quay is a small once industrial abandoned hamlet and intensive mining port on the steep, winding banks of the River Tamar in
Daniel and Samuel Lysons, (London, 1822), pp. 176-198. Accessed 31 March 2015. and theBBC Inside Out series
/ref> An account of the county in 1818 states "the Tamar is navigable to New Quay...for vessels of about 130 or 140 tons: vessels of fourteen feet draught go up to Morwell-ham quay, six miles from Plymouth" — the first distance appears to be an error. Since the village was abandoned in the early 20th century it became overgrown and large cut masonry stones from the quay were stolen. In 2008 work was begun to halt New Quay's further destruction: many of the buildings were stabilised and repaired and much of the undergrowth was cut back.
New Quay is a small once industrial abandoned hamlet and intensive mining port on the steep, winding banks of the River Tamar in Devon
Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...
. New Quay village is immediately east of and downstream of the similar port of Morwellham Quay
Morwellham Quay is an historic river port in Devon, England that developed to support the local mines. The port had its peak in the Victorian era and is now run as a tourist attraction and museum. It is the terminus of the Tavistock Canal, and ...
(now the heart of an open-air museum). New Quay was an important copper
Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...
, tin
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Tin is soft enough to be cut with little force and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort. When bent, t ...
and later arsenic
Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and atomic number 33. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in combination with sulfur and metals, but also as a pure elemental crystal. Arsenic is a metalloid. It has various allotropes, but ...
port serving the local mines including the George
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and Charlotte Mine, Bedford
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Consolidated Mine and Gawton Arsenic Mine. Since July 2006 New Quay is within the World Heritage
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Site that is the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.
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Closest mines are the Gawton Arsenic Mine, a scheduled ancient monument, Bedford Consolidated Mine and the George and Charlotte Mine. Across the water was Harewood Consolidated Mine. On the eastern high ridge were TavyConsolidated
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Mine, East and West Liscombe and Wheal Tamar Copper Mines,'Produce', in Magna Britannia: Volume 6, DevonshireDaniel and Samuel Lysons, (London, 1822), pp. 176-198. Accessed 31 March 2015. and the
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Mine.
As with Morwellham, the whole area is in the south of the highly scattered late 19th century parish of Gulworthy
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, today a civil parish
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and a small contributor parish to an ecclesiastical benefice
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in the Church of England
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, previously a hamlet of Tavistock. The mining families in the community were split between the established church and other sects of Protestantism - the then small town of Bere Alston to the south having had chapels or meeting houses for these in 1887 including a Presbyterian Church in 1822.
It to an extent benefited from the short but major engineering feat of the Tavistock Canal, forming a junction with the Tamar at Morwellham quay, completed in June 1817 with a tunnel of altogether built at an expense of £68,000 () being in engineering and in export of ores a remarkable achievement before its decline in the 1860s./ref> An account of the county in 1818 states "the Tamar is navigable to New Quay...for vessels of about 130 or 140 tons: vessels of fourteen feet draught go up to Morwell-ham quay, six miles from Plymouth" — the first distance appears to be an error. Since the village was abandoned in the early 20th century it became overgrown and large cut masonry stones from the quay were stolen. In 2008 work was begun to halt New Quay's further destruction: many of the buildings were stabilised and repaired and much of the undergrowth was cut back.
Today
Trains on the mine tramway from Morwellham stop at new Quay with local guides to show structures and explain the mining and cultural activities of the valley. The site can be visited without guides on foot and further public access is planned for the future.References
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