Flying high
View of the Basset Monument on Carn Brea, near Camborne, Cornwall.
This is a a 90 foot high granite obelisk erected in 1836 in memory of Francis Bassett, Lord de Dunstaville.
The Bassetts were the most important mining family in the area and had lived in nearby Tehidy for over 700 years. Francis Bassett was however the first to be elevated to the nobility due to his efforts to raise an army of miners to defend the port of Plymouth from the combined Spanish and French fleets.
Flying high
View of the Basset Monument on Carn Brea, near Camborne, Cornwall.
This is a a 90 foot high granite obelisk erected in 1836 in memory of Francis Bassett, Lord de Dunstaville.
The Bassetts were the most important mining family in the area and had lived in nearby Tehidy for over 700 years. Francis Bassett was however the first to be elevated to the nobility due to his efforts to raise an army of miners to defend the port of Plymouth from the combined Spanish and French fleets.