Nancegollan
Appearance
Nancegollan | |
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Fields near Nancegollan | |
Location within Cornwall | |
OS grid reference | SW637321 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Nancegollan is a village in the civil parish of Crowan in west Cornwall, England.[1] 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).[2]
On 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.[3][4]
References
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End & Isles of Scilly (St Ives & Lizard Point) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 978-0-319-23289-7.
- ^ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961
- ^ "Mining". The Cornishman. No. 195 (185). 6 April 1882. p. 5.
- ^ Todd, A C; Laws, Peter. The Industrial Archaeological of Cornwall. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 236.