Z is for Zawn a Bal: a dramatic Cornish mining site

"Zawn - a fissure in a cliff (used as a word and also as a place-name element, in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language sawen, or saven, meaning a cleft or gully. Bal, Cornish for a mine."

Dramatic Zawn a Bal

The most westerly Cornish Mining World Heritage Site is around St. Just. 

We had a perfect Sunday afternoon to appreciate the big skies of western Cornwall, the jagged rocks and cliffs, the stark moorland purple with heather and delicate summer flowers adding pops of colour as we walked along the Coast Path.

The engine house called Zawn a Bal is a wonder with its dramatic location; it floats above the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean on a cliff edge!