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Photograph © Chris Allen, under this
Creative Commons Licence
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Wheal Martyn Waterwheels at the China Clay Museum, Carthew
Location
Grid reference: SX 004 555
OS sheet: 200
Postcode: PL26 8XG
About 2 miles NW of St Austell, on B3274.
Open air museum of the china clay industry, with two working waterwheels. One wheel 18ft diameter
and connected to a Cornish lift pump for raising slurry. The second wheel is 35ft diameter and also
raised slurry by plunger pumps. Both are restored and run for demonstration purposes. Coffee shop, gift shop,
various trails.
Opening times 2016
26th March to 31st October, Open daily
from 10.00 to 17.00 (last admission 14.30pm) November - December, daily
10.00 - 16.00. Mid-January to March, Sunday to Friday (closed Saturday, 10.00 - 16.00.
See also web
site.
National Mills Weekend opening times 2016
Saturday & Sunday, 10.00-17.00.
Contact
Administrator, tel. 01726 850362.
Web site
www.chinaclaycountry.co.uk
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