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Bissoe
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Bissoe (, meaning birch trees) is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated five miles (8 km) east of Redruth in a former tin mining area. It is in the civil parish of Kea.
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- Locality
- Bissoe
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Kea
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- Bissoe Valley - geograph.org.uk - 640342.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01872
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- Bissoe
- postal code
- TR4
- OS grid reference
- SW776414
- historic county
- Cornwall
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Bissoe (, meaning birch trees) is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated five miles (8 km) east of Redruth in a former tin mining area. It is in the civil parish of Kea.
Bissoe was the site of an early arsenic extraction works, the second such commercial works in Britain. Frederick Hamilton Davey succeeded his father as Works Manager of the Cornwall Arsenic Company's factory at Bissoe in 1902, having acted as his father's assistant for several years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bissoe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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