Situated about halfway between Perranporth and Trevaunance Cove on the North coast is Hanover Cove. Here the cliffs have been worked for at least the last two centuries for copper and tin.

Hanover Cove acquired its name following the wrecking of the Hanover Pacquet on the 16th December 1763 in the worst storm to hit Cornwall in the eighteenth century. The ship was a two-masted brig which was sailing between Lisbon and Falmouth when she was driven west by a gale which then turned nor'easterly forcing the ship to found in the Cove. No one survived.

It is thought that she was carrying government money and precious stones, perhaps valued at £60,000 at the time. However, a recent recovery attempt has only brought up an astonishing array of canon.

The photograph shows the cliff face riddled with small horizontal shafts used for draining nearby Wheal St George. These small shafts are known as adits.