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New Quay is a small once industrial abandoned hamlet and intensive mining port on the steep, winding banks of the river Tamar in Devon. New Quay village is immediately east of and downstream of the similar port of Morwellham Quay (now the heart of an open-air museum). New Quay was formerly an important copper, tin and later arsenic port serving the local mines including the George and Charlotte Mine, Bedford Consolidated Mine and Gawton Arsenic Mine. Since July 2006 New Quay is within the World Heritage Site that is the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.〔http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1215〕 ==History== Closest mines are the Gawton Arsenic Mine, a scheduled ancient monument,〔Gawton arsenic mine 〕 Bedford Consolidated Mine and the George and Charlotte Mine.〔George and Charlotte Mine 〕 Across the water was Harewood Consolidated Mine. On the eastern high ridge were Tavy Consolidated Mine, East and West Liscombe and Wheal Tamar Copper Mines,〔('Produce', in Magna Britannia: Volume 6, Devonshire ) Daniel and Samuel Lysons, (London, 1822), pp. 176-198. Accessed 31 March 2015.〕 and the William and Mary Mine. As with Morwellham, the whole area is in the south of the highly scattered late 19th century parish of Gulworthy, today a civil parish and a small contributor parish to an ecclesiastical benefice in the Church of England, previously a hamlet of Tavistock.〔(Parish of Gulworthy ) The Church of England. Accessed 2015-03-31〕〔(Gulworthy, Devon ) Vision of Britain (The University of Portsmouth and Others). Accessed 2015-03-31〕 The mining families in the community were split between the established church and other sects of Protestantism - the former small town of Bere Alston to the south having had chapels or meeting houses for these in 1887〔(Beer Alston extract from John Marius Wilson's Gazetteer of 1887 ) Vision of Britain (The University of Portsmouth and Others). Accessed 2015-03-31〕 including a Presbyterian Church in 1822.〔('Parishes: Bere Ferrers including Bere Alston' ) Daniel and Samuel Lysons, in Magna Britannia: Volume 6, Devonshire (London, 1822), pp. 27-47 Accessed 31 March 2015.〕 It to an extent benefited from the short but major engineering feat of the Tavistock Canal, forming a junction with the Tamar at Morwellham quay, completed in June 1817 with a tunnel of altogether built at an expense of £68,000 () being in engineering and in export of ores a remarkable achievement before its decline in the 1860s.〔Tavistock in A Topographical Dictionary of England, ed. Samuel Lewis (London, 1848), p. 307. Accessed 30 March 2015.〕〔(BBC Inside Out series )〕 An account of the county in 1818 states "the Tamar is navigable to New Quay...for vessels of about 130 or 140 tons: vessels of fourteen feet draught go up to Morwell-ham quay, six miles from Plymouth" — the first distance appears to be an error.〔 Since the village was abandoned in the early 20th century it became overgrown and large cut masonry stones from the quay were stolen. In 2008 work was begun to halt New Quay's further destruction: many of the buildings were stabilised and repaired and much of the undergrowth was cut back. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Quay (Devon)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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