UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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![]() Part of Crown Mines, Botallack (St Just Mining District) | |
Location | Cornwall and West Devon, United Kingdom |
Criteria | Cultural: (ii), (iii), (iv) |
Reference | 1215 |
Inscription | 2006 (30th Session) |
Area | 19,719 ha (48,730 acres) |
Coordinates | 50°8′10″N 05°23′1″W / 50.13611°N 5.38361°W |
The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape is a World Heritage Site which includes select mining landscapes in Cornwall and West Devon in the south west of England. The site was added to the World Heritage List during the 30th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Vilnius, July 2006. Following plans in 2011 to restart mining at South Crofty,[1] and to build a supermarket at Hayle Harbour,[2] the World Heritage Committee drafted a decision in 2014 to put the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger, but this was rejected at the 38th Committee Session at Doha, Qatar (July 2014), in favour of a follow-up Reactive Monitoring Mission.[3][4]