The 2007 NAMHO Conference is being hosted by Tamar Mining Group in association with Plymouth Caving Group and other local NAMHO member organisations and will take place over the weekend of 15th - 17th June 2007.

Morwellham Quay, on the banks of the River Tamar, once at the centre of the greatest mining enterprise in Queen Victoria’s empire, will provide the backdrop for the conference. John Taylor learned his trade in the district and few British mining fields can claim such a rich and diverse metalliferous mining heritage - the area has a well documented mining history dating back to the 1290s.

The Tamar Valley is an area with vast potential for conference field trips. Above ground highlights include John Taylor’s Tavistock Canal, Morwellham Quay and the well preserved remains of the arsenic industry.

Below ground, an embarrassment of riches includes trips as diverse as a sedate tram ride through the George and Charlotte Copper Mine (a popular tourist attraction locally) to the vertigo inducing vertical pitches of Devon Great Consols which boasts among its highlights, stoping of biblical proportions and some of the finest accessible mine timbering in the UK.

The importance of the Tamar Valley has been internationally recognised with its inclusion in the recent inscription of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Area as a World Heritage Site.

Mining aside, the Tamar Valley is one of the most beautiful and unspoiled corners of Britain and is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or AONB (despite mans best efforts to the contrary!) and, if that is not enough, we have some jolly good local beers and farmhouse cider!

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