On the Tin Coast, near St Just, Cornwall

If there was a National Trust award for the most used location for one TV series, Botallack would be sure to win. The buildings here stood in for various Poldark family mines in all five series of the BBC's hit adaptation of Winston Graham's novels.

The Wheal Crowns buildings (shown right), perched on jagged rocks right next to the sea, were used as Francis Poldark's failing ‘Wheal Grambler' in series one. Botallack is part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site. The abandoned mines now serve as a reminder of the area's once prosperous past when mines stretched out half a mile under the sea bed and produced thousands of tons of copper and tin every year.