Scorrier
Scorrieris a village inCornwall,England, United Kingdom. It is in thecivil parishofSt Day,about 2 miles (3 km) northeast of the centre ofRedruthand 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the coast atPorthtowan,on theA30 roadat the junction of theA3047 roadthat leads west toCamborneand the B3298 road south toCarharrack.[1]The Plymouth to Penzance railway line passes through the village and between 1852 and 1964 it hadits own station.A. E. Rodda & Son,the principal maker ofclotted creamis based here.
History
[edit]The village is in the Gwennap Mining District of theCornwall and West Devon Mining LandscapeWorld Heritage Site.The name "Scorrier" is first attested asScoriain 1330. It means "mining waste", deriving from theLatinwordscoria.[2]
Tregullow House was a country house[3]that had been passed down through the Williams family, a well-known local family that had made their fortune in the mining of tin and copper. At Tregullow there are two Cornish crosses: one of them formerly stood betweenPonsanoothand Pengreep and was for a time used as a gatepost.[4]
Assa Govranckowe 1580, Kyver Ankoucirca1720, is a place on the Penwith – Kerrier boundary near Scorrier. Itstoponymis derived fromkeverango(meaning "hundreds" ). Here the four westernhundredsof Cornwall meet at one point (Penwith, northwest; Kerrier, southwest; Powder, southeast; Pydar, northeast).
Scorrier House
[edit]Scorrier House, just south of the village, was built in 1778 by John Williams the Third of theWilliams family,from the fortune he made fromtin mining;it was substantially enlarged in 1845.[5]
References
[edit]- ^Ordnance SurveyOne-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190.1961
- ^Victor Watts, ed. (2004).The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names.Cambridge University Press. p. 532.ISBN978-0-521-16855-7.
- ^Smith, Peter King."The Zimapanners".
- ^Langdon, AG (1896).Old Cornish Crosses.Truro: Joseph Pollard. pp.176,272–73.
- ^"Poldice Mine, Cornwall".Cornwall Calling.Retrieved2 July2009.
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