Wheal Darlington

It will be interesting to plot this out along with the old coast line and the present roads and rail.

It most certainly will!

Henry Vane was a man who kept his head. Which is more than can be said of his ancestor, for on the 14th June 1662 Sir Henry Vane was beheaded. The family have been recorded with distiction for centuries, but blotted his copybook in the reign of Charles I; so King Charles II put all that right. However the son Christopher became Baron Barnard in 1699. Henry, 3rd Lord was created in 1754 Viscount Barnard and Earl of Darlington; he married Lady Grace Fitzroy daughter of the Duke of Cleveland and Soughampton. Their son Henry became the 2nd Earl, who died in 1792, leaving his son William Henry to be the 3rd Earl, he was created the Marquis of Cleveland in 1827, and became Duke of Cleveland and Southampton in 1833. Just how the gentleman became involved in the purchase land and the volatile world of mining in Cornwall, is a mystery, though I suspect a connection between Sir John St Aubyn was a distinct possibility. The very idea of mining in an old marsh works, set so close to the sea is one of real commitment. Then his son took over the mantle and the mine in 1842.