Craddock Moor Mine
With an annual production of just over 2000 tons this was the smallest mine in the area that managed to yield dividends. The operation…
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Places & buildings
Houses, farms, schools, villages, landmarks and the changing local landscape.
Daniel Gumb
Daniel Gumb was the most celebrated character to live on the moors near Pensilva. He is best known for his home among the rocks at the…
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Do you recognise these cottages?
A lady from up country has provided this photograph in the hope of finding out where the building is today. It is somewhere in…
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Fool's Corner
The following article written in 1984 is reproduced by kind permission of Yvonne Gilbert. Pensilva almost 40 years ago Fool's Corner…
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Glasgow Caradon Mine
This mine lay astride the granite/killas junction to the east of Caradon Hill just north of Pensilva which at that time was called…
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Going to the Well
The following article written in 1984 is reproduced by kind permission of Yvonne Gilbert. Pensilva almost 40 years ago Going to the…
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Jubilee Farm
The census of 1841 shows just one house and one family living in Pensilva or 'Bodmonland' as it was called at that time. The house was…
Read story →Memories of St Ive Village
The following memories of the village have kindly been provided by Dennis and Doreen Cardew of St Ive. Dennis Cardew Memories from…
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Middle Hill - Sale of Land and Buildings
On the 24th July 1919 Major GSS Strode of Newhnam Park, Plympton, Devon sold off by auction his family's holdings of land and…
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My House in Middle Hill
I live in a cottage which is one of a small terrace in Lower Middle Hill, Pensilva. It was built, I believe around 1850 at the start…
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Old St Ive Postcard
This copy of a postcard was sent to us by Susan Maunder. The postcard was sent at 6.45pm on 30th May 1908 to Susan's Grandfather, Mr.…
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Pensilva - A Brief History
The census of 1841 records only two houses in Pensilva, a farmhouse (now called Jubilee Farm and situated on Jubilee Road) is the…
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Pensilva - World Heritage Site
In 2006 Pensilva was given World Heritage status because of its uniqueness as a rapidly expanding Victorian industrial settlement much…
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Pensilva and St Ive Schools
The History Group was very pleased to receive these photos from Ian Titchner of Pensilva. He had spotted this unusual old postcard for…
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Put On - Take Off Stones
If you drive through the village of St Ive Cross, just before the single track road begins a long, steady uphill climb, a small…
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Rillaton Barrow and the Gold Cup
Dating back to the early Bronze Age (c2500 1500BC) the Rillaton Barrow (Grid reference SX260719) is the most famous burial cairn on…
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South Caradon Mine
South Caradon Mine lies about half a mile from the summit of Caradon Hill, on its southern slopes and in the Caradon Mining District…
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The Story of Trebeigh at St Ive
At the time of the Norman Conquest there was a farm in South East Cornwall with the Cornish name of "Trebighan", meaning 'Little…
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Visiting the Cemetery
The following article written in 1984 is reproduced by kind permission of Yvonne Gilbert Pensilva almost 40 years ago Going to the…
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Wheal Ludcott was located just south of the Liskeard to Callington road and was one of a group of lead mines on the eastern side of…
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This mine amalgamated with the adjacent Wheal Ludcott in 1861 after Wheal Wrey's impending closure had threatened the flooding of…
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