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Chysauster Ancient Village (Cornish: Chisylvester, meaning Sylvester's house) [1] is a late Iron Age and Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which is currently in the care of English Heritage. The village included eight to ten houses, each with its own internal courtyard.
The dominant feature of the quarry is its stone engine house. Built in 1870, this served a dual purpose of pumping and winding. The engine house was built to accommodate a 50" Woolf Compound beam engine which pumped the large pit below and hauled large blocks of slate from the depths of the quarry workings to the headframe where it was sorted ...
Retew was a village near St Austell in Cornwall, England, that was mostly demolished in the early 1960s when the nearby Wheal Remfrey china clay quarry and waste heaps were expanded. [1] The village was small, containing 24 houses and a factory, and stood on land owned by the quarry owners, English China Clays. The fate of the village had been ...
Carclew House, one of Britain's lost houses, was a large Palladian country house near Mylor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was situated at grid reference SW 787 380 approximately three miles north of Falmouth .
Mawgan Porth Dark Age Village is a small ancient settlement consisting of 3 courtyard house complexes and a cemetery on the North coast of Cornwall dating from the 10th century. It was excavated in 1950-54 by Rupert Bruce-Mitford. The site was first discovered after the apparent after the discovery of the skeleton in 1934.
The Prideaux family is believed to be of Norman origin and to have first settled in England at some time after the Norman Conquest of 1066 at Prideaux Castle, near Fowey, in Cornwall. It abandoned that seat and moved to Devon, where it spread out in various branches. [9] William Prideaux (died 1564) of Trevose, St Meryn, Cornwall
Firefighters put out a blaze in an abandoned former council building in Cornwall on Thursday. Crews from Truro, Falmouth and Tolvddon were called to the old Circuit House building, in Truro, at ...
Trefanny Hill is a hamlet in the parish of Duloe, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. [1] The hamlet was formerly called Hille or Hill. [2] None of the men from the hamlet returned from the First World War and it was abandoned for 50 years. It was purchased in 1962 and restored as a holiday village. [citation needed]
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