ABSTRACT
The Cornish Mining World Heritage Site provides an interesting example through which to examine local residents’ understanding of ‘sense of place’. The deindustrialization of Cornwall’s tin and copper mining industry and the subsequent transition to an economy largely dependent on tourism, has inevitably brought many changes – from noise to quiet, from an emphasis on subterranean to the surface, and from physical exertion to a visual consideration of industrial ruins within a ‘natural’ setting. These changing perceptions have occurred within recent history and therefore, in large part, within living memory.
