Nancegollan

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Nancegollan ({{langx|kw|Nansigolen}}) is a village in the civil parish of Crowan in west Cornwall, England.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End & Isles of Scilly (St Ives & Lizard Point)|ISBN=978-0-319-23289-7|publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2009}} Nancegollan is on the B3303 road and south-east of Leedstown.

The railway line from Helston to Hayle passed through the village (closed in 1964).Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961 Nancegollan station was the largest of the four stations on the branch.

File:Nancegollan mine.jpgOn Polcrebo Downs is the engine house of the Polcrebo Mine which was reopened in 1882 and still working in the 1890s; but is of very ancient origin.{{cite news |title=Mining |work=The Cornishman |issue=185 |date=6 April 1882 |volume=195 |page=5}}{{cite book |last1=Todd |first1=A C |last2=Laws |first2=Peter |title=The Industrial Archaeological of Cornwall |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot |page=236}}

The name Nancegollan comes from the Cornish language words nans, meaning 'valley', and igolen, meaning 'whetstone'.[https://www.akademikernewek.org.uk/place-names/content/nancegollan Akademi Kernewek place names - Nansigolen]