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Calamity at Coppathorne

On a cold morning in early November 1820 in the small hamlet of Coppathorne in Poundstock parish in north Cornwall, my great-great-great grandfather Thomas Rodd might have been found getting ready to go out to his job labouring at a nearby farm. Thomas had been born to the east in the border parish of North … Continue reading Calamity at Coppathorne →

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 →