North Petherwin was stolen from Cornwall sometime in the eleventh century. The theft occurred despite both parishes being on the Cornish side of the Tamar, which Athelstan in the tenth century had determined would be the boundary between the English and Cornish. They weren’t returned to their rightful owners until 1966 and the perpetrators have … Continue reading North Petherwin: the theft of a parish
Month: July 2022
North Hill and a successful footman
North Hill is a rural parish, its fields and woods rolling down off the eastern edge of Bodmin Moor to the valley of the River Lynher and beyond to the productive farmland east of it. Most of its settlements were scattered along the valley, including the churchtown and, to its north, the small hamlet of … Continue reading North Hill and a successful footman
Newlyn East: Pennsylvania, Liverpool and Newquay
Known as Newlyn East to distinguish it from the town of Newlyn in the west, Newlyn East in mid-Cornwall was the centre of Cornish lead mining from the 1830s. Mines at Chiverton and East Wheal Rose dominated lead production until challenged by the lead mines of Menheniot in the 1850s. That said, there were as … Continue reading Newlyn East: Pennsylvania, Liverpool and Newquay
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