New Mill, Cornwall

{{Short description|Hamlet in Cornwall, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Coord|50.151|-5.560|type:city(50)_region:GB|display=title}}

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New Mill (Newmill on Ordnance Survey maps){{Cite web |title=Map of SW458340 |url=http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map?x=145774&y=34077&z=115&sv=145774,34077&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map&searchp=ids&dn=643&ax=145774&ay=34077&lm=0 |access-date=28 July 2022 |website=Streetmap.co.uk}} is a small settlement in west Cornwall, England. It is approximately {{convert|2|mi|km}} north of Penzance on the road to Gurnard's Head.{{cite map |title=OS Explorer 102. Land's End |date=2015 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |location=Southampton |isbn=978 0 319 24304 6}}

Geography

The area includes the hamlets of Boskednan and Bodrifty, which has a former Iron Age settlement. Nearby is Trythall School and the former mission church of All Saints which was designed by James Piers St Aubyn and opened in 1885, to service the mining community.{{cite news |title=Gulval |work=The Cornishman |issue=322 |date=18 September 1884 |page=4}} It closed in 1957, the altar was moved to Gulval Church and placed in the Harris Chapel which was renamed the Trythall Chapel.{{cite book |last1=Parker |first1=John |title=Gulval Parish Church. A Brief Guide |date=2003 |page=5}} New Mill lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Industry

New Mill quarry ({{gbmapping|SW459392}}) closed before the First World War. During the 1880s it was owned by Messrs Freeman and Sons, employing fifteen men. Freeman's also owned the Lamorna and Sheffield quarries as well a yard at Wherrytown for processing the granite. They also employed hundreds of people in quarries near Penryn.{{cite news |last1=Ouit |title=The Industries of Penzance and its Neighbourhood. No XII. Quarries, Stone-mills, etc |work=The Cornishman |issue=265 |date=9 August 1883 |page=7}}

Cornish wrestling

Cornish wrestling tournaments were held in meadow adjoining the Miners' Arms.The Cornish Telegraph, 6 October 1881.

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