Gwennap
Hamlet and civil parish in West Cornwall.
Cornwall
Cornwall, Parish
Cornish churchtowns
Ecclesiastical parishes in Cornwall sometimes have a parish church situated in a churchtown.
Cornwall
Gwennap Pit
Amphitheatre in which John Wesley preached between 1762 and 1789, occupying a depression that was possibly formed by the subsidence of underground mine workings.
Cornwall, English, Foundry
Perran Foundry
Cornish foundry established in 1791 to supply steam-engine pumps and heavy machinery to mines, waterworks and ironworks.
Anglican, Church, Cornwall
St Piran’s Church, Perranarworthal
Active Anglican church in Perranarworthal, dedicated to Cornwall’s patron saint.
Wooded peninsula on the River Fal in Cornwall, where there is evidence of occupation and settlement since at least the Iron Age. Site of the late Iron Age Roundwood Fort.
Cornwall
South Wheal Frances
Copper and tin mine to the south of Camborne in Cornwall, named after the mineral lord, Lady Frances Basset.
Cornwall, Paranormal
The Hooper
Mysterious cloud of mist that often hovered over the Cowloe Rock, near Sennen Cove in Cornwall, warning of approaching bad weather.
Cornwall
Great County Adit
System of underground tunnels that drained tin and copper mines between Redruth and Bissoe in west Cornwall.
