Wheal Frances
Wheal Frances is a village in Cornwall, England, UK. It is located in the civil parish of Perranzabuloe.
Geography
To the north Carnkief Pond, a Site of Special Scientific Interest is named. This SSSI is noted for its biological interest, including 12 species of dragonfly.[1]
Wheal Frances Mine
The village was noted for the Wheal Frances Mine of which many ruins remain.[2]
gollark: Like I said, I also support UBI or similar "free money" policies.
gollark: In theory you could get better efficiency out of dictatorial central planning, but it's a hard computational problem and has various practical issues beyond that.
gollark: I am personally fairly happy with exchanging money for goods and services.
gollark: Unlike for, say, mobile data plans, where the scarcity is completely artificial because the limited resource is bitrate and not total transfer. I'm not sure how that happened.
gollark: Water being paid for makes sense, as it disincentives using tons of it unnecessarily, and incentivises production and transportation as needed. Although I think most consumer water plans are just flat monthly rates.
References
- "Carnkief Pond" (PDF). Natural England. 1985. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- Gamble, Barry (April 2011). Cornish Mines: St Just to Redruth. Alison Hodge Publishers. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-906720-81-3. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
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