Holmbush | |
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Mine chimney at the disused Wheal Eliza Consols tin mine | |
Location within Cornwall | |
OS grid reference | SX035525 |
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Unitary authority | |
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Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | ST. AUSTELL |
Postcode district | PL25 |
Dialling code | 01726 |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Cornwall |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Holmbush is a village in Cornwall, England that is situated in the suburban area of St Austell (where the population at the 2011 census was included).[1] It was a centre for tin and copper mining in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a few houses to the south of the A390 road. It was developed in the 1970s, with the construction of housing and an industrial estate to the north of the road. Since 1974, the site of Cuddra mine has been developed as Pinetum Gardens, an attraction holding over 6,000 varieties of plants, many collected by the owner on plant hunting expeditions.