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Rich loades of copper, tin and lead were discovered on Caradon Hill, on the eastern edge of Bodmin Moor in 1836 leading to a mining boom in the area where the edge of the moorland had previously been uninhabited. Granite mining was also carried on at Cheesewring.

Widely used, Cheesewring granite was widely used for the breakwaters at Dover and Portland, docks on the Medway and at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Spithead, the new Westminster Bridge and the base of the Albert Memmorial in Kensington Gardens.

The growth of the mining industry and the business which was inevitably required to support it generated a great deal of work in the Liskeard and Looe area and caused imigration into the area as people sought to take advantage of regular work.

At one time it was reckoned that no less than half of the world's copper production passed down the canal and through the port at Looe.

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