New Mill, Cornwall

50.151°N 5.560°W / 50.151; -5.560

New Mill
Mission Church of All Saints

New Mill (Newmill on Ordnance Survey maps)[1] is a small settlement in west Cornwall, England. It is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Penzance on the road to Gurnard's Head.[2]

Geography

The area includes the hamlets of Boskednan and Bodrifty, which has a former Iron Age settlement. Nearby is Trythall School and the former mission church of All Saints which was designed by James Piers St Aubyn and opened in 1885, to service the mining community.[3] It closed in 1957, the altar was moved to Gulval Church and placed in the Harris Chapel which was renamed the Trythall Chapel.[4] New Mill lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Industry

New Mill quarry (grid reference SW459392) closed before the First World War. During the 1880s it was owned by Messrs Freeman and Sons, employing fifteen men. Freeman's also owned the Lamorna and Sheffield quarries as well a yard at Wherrytown for processing the granite. They also employed hundreds of people in quarries near Penryn.[5]

Cornish wrestling

Cornish wrestling tournaments were held in meadow adjoining the Miners' Arms.[6]

References
  1. "Map of SW458340". Streetmap.co.uk. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  2. OS Explorer 102. Land's End (Map). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 978 0 319 24304 6.
  3. "Gulval". The Cornishman. No. 322. 18 September 1884. p. 4.
  4. Parker, John (2003). Gulval Parish Church. A Brief Guide. p. 5.
  5. Ouit (9 August 1883). "The Industries of Penzance and its Neighbourhood. No XII. Quarries, Stone-mills, etc". The Cornishman. No. 265. p. 7.
  6. The Cornish Telegraph, 6 October 1881.


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