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Local Information for Camborne

Camborne is a small ex-industrial town located in the far west of Cornwall, UK, forming the western end of the greater Camborne, Pool and Redruth conurbation. Taken together and with an approximate population (including 'satellite' villages) of 45,000, they form the largest urban build-up in the county. Camborne is best known as a centre for the former Cornish tin and copper mining industry, having its working heyday during the later 18th and early 19th centuries.

Dolcoath, (Cornish: Old Ground), the 'Queen of Cornish Mines' was, at a depth of 3500 feet (1067 m), for many years the deepest mine in the world, not to mention one of the oldest before its closure in 1921. Indeed, the last tin mine in Europe, South Crofty, was to be found in Camborne until its closure in 1998.

Apart from the mines themselves, Camborne was also home to many important related industries, including the once world-renowned foundry of Holmans. Holmans, a family business founded in 1801, was fo...More