Tremethick Cross Explained

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Tremethick Cross (from Cornish: Tre'nmedhek)[1] is a hamlet around a crossroads in the parish of Madron, in west Cornwall, United Kingdom.[2] Between 1863 and 1884, the A3071 road, was a turnpike serving the mining industry at St Just for the transport of ore to the nearest harbour in Penzance. A toll house, two miles west of Penzance, can still be seen on the crossroads.

Tremethick, Tremathick or Trereife cross is a stone Latin cross which was brought to this site from Rose-an-Beagle in the parish of Paul.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)
  2. Philip's Street Atlas Cornwall. London: Philip's, 2003; p. 88
  3. Langdon, A. G. (1896) Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 207–08 (citing J. T. Blight Ancient Crosses and Antiquities of Cornwall; p. 45)

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