Exeter: grid reference SX911977

Manganese ore was discovered and first raised in Devon about the year 1770, at Upton Pyne, near Exeter, the ore from which, with two other mines of less consequence, upon the same lode, at Newton St. Cyres, for many years supplied the United Kingdom with manganese.

The mines at Upton Pyne and nearby Newton St. Cyres worked a nearly vertical lode running alongside a fault in the rocks. Both Upton Pyne and the mines at Newton St. Cyres became exhausted and were abandoned around about 1815.

There are no records of production.