Wheal Fortescue
List of Mines in North Devon and West Somerset
Buckland Copper Mine.
Site Identification Number - 069
East Buckland parish, Devon
NGR SS669.318.
Site Identification Number - 069
East Buckland parish, Devon
NGR SS669.318.
Also known as Wheal Fortescue or North Wheal Fortescue. Workings located around Belwell, incl. shaft at 66953180, in Pitt Wood and at Middlecott Hill (676325). Worked for copper before 1724, from 1736 to at least 1773, and 1844 to 1849. (Claughton, 1989)