London Apprentice
Coordinates: 50°19′04″N 4°48′00″W / 50.3178°N 4.8001°W
| London Apprentice | |
| Cornish: Oberden Loundres | |
 London Apprentice
London Apprentice shown within Cornwall |
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| OS grid reference | SX006502 |
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| Civil parish | Pentewan Valley |
| Unitary authority | Cornwall |
| Ceremonial county | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ST AUSTELL |
| Postcode district | PL26 |
| Dialling code | 01726 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | St Austell and Newquay |
| List of places: UK • England • Cornwall | |
London Apprentice (Cornish: Oberden Loundres) is a village in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated in the St Austell River valley approximately two miles (3 km) south of St Austell[1].
The village is in the civil parish of Pentewan Valley and the ecclesiastical parish of St Austell and it takes its name from the London Apprentice Inn, which formerly stood on the St Austell to Pentewan road. The inn traded from 1815 to 1871 and probably longer[2][3].
[edit] Tin-mining
In 1833 a coalyard was constructed on the Pentewan Railway near the inn to supply coal to the tin mines at nearby Polgooth and the settlement may have arisen around this point. According to nineteenth-century census returns[3], most of the villagers were engaged in tin-mining, either in the stream-works of Wheal Virgin, close to London Apprentice, or in Polgooth. The former closed in 1874,[4] the latter by 1900. The New Mills Primitive Methodist Church was built in the village in 1870, but closed in 1988, though the building still stands.[5].
[edit] The village today
Today, the village (which retains a shop and a restaurant) caters mainly for tourists. The old railway line to Pentewan is now a footpath and cycle path.[6] Kings Wood, a remnant of ancient woodland owned by the Woodland Trust, lies to the south of the village.[7]
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