George and Charlotte Mine

New Quay

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Location	Gulworthy, United Kingdom
Coordinates	50°30′18″N 4°10′52″W / 50.505°N 4.181°W / 50.505; -4.181
Criteria	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(iv)
Reference	1215
Inscription	2006 ( Session)
Location of New Quay
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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, 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.

Closest mines are the Gawton Arsenic Mine, a scheduled ancient monument, Bedford Consolidated Mine and the 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, 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 . 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 including a Presbyterian Church in 1822.

It to an extent benefited from the short but major engineering feat of the , forming a junction with the Tamar at Morwellham quay, completed in June 1817 with a tunnel of 1.75 miles (2.82 km) altogether built at an expense of £68,000 (equivalent to £4,490,000 in 2015) being in engineering and in export of ores a remarkable achievement before its decline in the 1860s.