Reskadinnick

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Reskadinnick
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Minor road approaching Reskadinnick from the east
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Reskadinnick
Location within Cornwall
OS grid reference SW635415
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Camborne
Postcode district TR14
Dialling code 01209
List of places
UK
England
Cornwall
50°13′34″N5°19′01″W / 50.226°N 5.317°W / 50.226; -5.317

Reskadinnick is a hamlet north of Camborne in west Cornwall, England, UK [1] The postal code for Reskadinnick, Cornwall is TR14 OBL. [2]

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Stephen MacKenna

Stephen MacKenna was a journalist, linguist and writer of Irish descent. He is perhaps most well known for his important English translation of the Greek-speaking philosopher Plotinus. He was resident at Reskadinnick in his latter years.

Molly Hughes

Molly Hughes (Nee Thomas) 1866-1956 wrote several memoirs about growing up in London in the nineteenth century. in A London Child of the 1870s she devotes four chapters to a family visit to Reskadinnick, the home of her maternal grandfather, Joseph Vivian, and numerous Vivian relatives. This provides a detailed and vivid account of Reskadinnick in the late 1870s.

References

  1. Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961
  2. "Postcodes in Reskadinnick, Cornwal". checkmypostcode.uk. Retrieved 14 July 2017.