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Penponds
Location within Cornwall
OS grid reference SW636391
Civil parish
  • Camborne
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CAMBORNE
Postcode district TR14
Dialling code 01209
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50°12′18″N5°18′50″W / 50.205°N 5.314°W / 50.205; -5.314 Coordinates: 50°12′18″N5°18′50″W / 50.205°N 5.314°W / 50.205; -5.314

Penponds (Cornish : Pennpons) [1] is a village west of Camborne, in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Geography

To the east is the former mining town of Camborne and to the north is the Penzance to Plymouth railway line. West of the village is the Penponds Viaduct which carries the railway over the Roseworthy valley and to the south is the village of Barripper. [2]

History

Neolithic flints were found at Penponds and are in the Camborne museum. [3] In June 1880 approximately 40 to 50 Bronze Age socketed axes were found in a pit at Viaduct Farm, Higher Roseworthy following the blasting of a large rock to level the ground for a pig-sty. The hoard is now distributed in private collections and between museums in Camborne and Truro. [4] [5] A granite clapper bridge of unknown antiquity is south-west of the village in the Roseworthy valley, as is the site of a post-medieval corn mill which was named on a tithe map from 1725. [6] [7]

The most likely site for Penpons manor house and chapel is at Ivy Cottage in Higher Penponds which has "fragmentary door frame surrounds" of the front left window of the cottage, which appears to be the remnants of a 15th-century rectangular L-shaped building. An inquisition was held in the manor of Penpons and Baripper in 1421 at the Chapel of Blessed Marie of Penpons and in 1445 a licence for divine service was given to Richard and Amisia Penspons. It is likely they were living in the manor house at that time. [8]

Two teenage boys from the area were ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in the early part of the sixteenth century. These two local priests where quite possibly the last Catholic clergy in the area at the time of the Reformation.[ clarification needed ][ citation needed ]

North of the village is the extant remains of the Penponds incline, the original course of the first railway line in west Cornwall. The Hayle Railway ran between the harbours of Hayle and Portreath and the mining town of Redruth. Following purchase by the West Cornwall Railway the incline was closed on 16 February 1852, the railway line realigned via the Penponds Viaduct and re-opened on 25 August 1852. [9]

Notable residents

Higher Penponds Farm Cottage was the childhood home of the mining engineer, Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833). The 17th/18th-century cottage is now known as Trevithick Cottage (grid reference SW63743890 ). [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine  : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine . Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. ↑ OS Explorer Map 104 Redruth & St Agnes (Map) (B2 ed.). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN   978 0 319 24034 2.
  3. ↑ Historic England. "Monument No 425869 (425869)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "The County". The Cornishman. No. 105. 15 July 1880. p. 4.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Hoard of Axes (425859)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "Monument No 425867 (425867)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  7. ↑ Historic England. "Monument No 425882 (425882)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  8. ↑ Historic England. "Penponds Manor House and St Marys Chapel (425880)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  9. ↑ Oakley, Mike (2009). Cornwall Railway Stations. Wimborne Minster: Dovecote Press. ISBN   978-1-904-34968-6.
  10. ↑ Historic England. "Higher Penponds Farm Cottage (425868)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 31 January 2017.
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