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Upper Merrivale tin blowing and stamping mills, 750m north of Shillapark
Devon
Upper Merrivale tin blowing and stamping mills are the fragmentary remains of industrial tin processing that once clustered across Dartmoor. The stamping mills crushed ore into finer material, while the blowing house used bellows and heat to extract tin from the crushed rock. These sites are typically found near water sources and evidence of moorland mining activity.
Today the remains are subtle: scattered stone, leats, and foundation traces rather than standing structures. They sit in open moorland 750 metres north of Shillapark, part of a wider landscape shaped by tin extraction. Walking here, you move through the same terrain that miners worked, where the moor's mineral wealth once drove Dartmoor's economy and left its mark on the land.
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