Static Image Name: | Couchs Mill - geograph.org.uk - 1550716.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Couch's Mill |
Official Name: | Couch's Mill |
Country: | England |
Region: | South West England |
Os Grid Reference: | SX1460 |
Coordinates: | 50.401°N -4.604°W |
Label Position: | top |
Civil Parish: | Boconnoc |
Unitary England: | Cornwall |
Lieutenancy England: | Cornwall |
Constituency Westminster: | South East Cornwall |
Post Town: | LOSTWITHIEL |
Postcode Area: | PL |
Postcode District: | PL22 |
Dial Code: | 01208 01503 |
Couch's Mill is a small hamlet in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the parish of Boconnoc, a large private estate that borders the hamlet to the north.
Couch's Mill lies roughly 4miles from the centre of the nearest town, Lostwithiel, and about 1.5miles from the nearby village Lerryn.
The true format in which to write the name seems not to have been decided. Even local signposts vary. The three different ways commonly found of writing the name of the hamlet are Couchs Mill, Couch's Mill and Couches Mill. These are all deemed correct, although the last variation is less commonly found, and generally less accepted.
The actor Nigel Havers discovered in the programme "Who Do You Think You Are?", broadcast in 2013, that he is descended from the Couch family who operated the mill in the 19th century.[1]