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The St. Austell area in Cornwall is famous for its association with china clay where rich deposits of Kaolin have been mined over the centuries. The mines have been so ingrained into the Cornish economy that pretty much everybody in the local area either worked for companies involved in the china clay industry or had...
Groundsure are pleased to announce we have won investment from Innovate UK for the national development of a brownfield decision support tool, building on the award-winning research of the British Geological Survey. This project will enable land purchasers, their legal team, developers and consultants to de-risk their acquisitions and provide up-front knowledge of issues and...
Firstly, what exactly is HOT Mapping? HOT stands for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. HOT mapping is collaboration mapping for humanitarian aid across the world – reaching those in need through maps, using OpenStreetMap as a base for all projects. Unlike in this country, where you can go to your local bookshop and pick up a high...
We are delighted to hear of the positive outlook for reserves of metalliferous bearing mineral veins as discovered during this latest exploration phase by Cornish Metals in and around the area of St Day in west Cornwall. In the early days of Mining Searches UK, in the late 1970s to early 1980s we carried out...
It’s a crisp Saturday morning, you’re out with a few friends for a round of golf. What’s the first thing that comes to mind? A few hours peace and quiet? What you’ll be cooking for dinner that evening? It probably isn’t “I wonder what this golf course used to be”….. Unless of course you are...
Yorkshire has a rich and diverse history, which goes as far back as the Vikings, the Angles and the Romans. Yorkshire was a hub of industrialisation, with industries such as textiles, coal, iron and steel forming the base of the industrial revolution in Yorkshire, and the north of England1. The remnants of this rapid urbanisation...
Sometimes it’s interesting to have a different perspective and recently I was reintroduced to Historic England’s First World War National Factories Assessment (2015). It takes a historical perspective on the development of the nationally operated factories from World War 1. They chart the social changes and architectural developments of the time, as well as being...
The maps plans and charts that the specialists at Mining Searches UK (MSUK) consider for mining risk assessments vary widely and can include written documents, plans and sections of underground workings and surface plans, even plans jotted down back of a cigarette packet style. As a result, the information shown on the plans is viewed...
Coastal erosion is a hot topic at the moment, but it is nothing new. Groundsure have been thinking about coastal erosion for a long time; back in 2015 our Head of Product Development, Dominic Tubb, wrote an interesting piece on coastal retreat at Birling Gap utilising our high resolution historical mapping. Fast forward to today,...