Granite Mushrooms, Morwellham Farm, Near Tavistock
N 50° 30.500 W 004° 11.800
30U E 415147 N 5595835
A collection of granite mushrooms.
Waymark Code: WM4W29
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/04/2008
Views: 15
These mushrooms were used to stack hay, to keep it off the damp ground. There is a very large collection at Morwellham Farm.
Morwellham is a living museum and a World Heritage Site
Morwellham is located some 3km below the tidal limit near Gunnislake and 32 km from Plymouth. The port occupies the floodplain of a wide meander and is backed by sharply rising and thickly wooded valley sides which rise to over 180m. It was connected to Tavistock (6.5km away) via the Tavistock Canal completed in 1817. Morwellham was also connected to Devon Great Consols, once the richest copper mine in the world, by a standard gauge mineral railway (and incline-plane) in 1859.
Ordnance Survey map reference (10 figure) if within DNP – If outside the Park, add N/A: Not listed
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