Mining-Blowing Houses

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Angarrack Stamps, Smelting House

The original Angarrack Stamps field is marked on the tithe map. 

Located in a long thin field 'above' the hatches and sluice in the back gardens of Vellan Parc..

The mill at Hatch's Hill is marked on old maps as Grist Mill - was it always a Grist Mill or did it start as a Blowing House and become converted?

Firstly, many have been converted into grist mills because their large size and existing water supplies made them ideal choices, at a time when blowing houses were being replaced by reverbatory smelting works and the increasing Cornish population demanded a greater corn grinding capacity (Barton, D.B., 1971, 69).

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