Cargreen
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| Cargreen Cornish: Karrekreun | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 The Crooked Spaniards, Cargreen | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX433625 |
| Location: | 50°26’30"N, 4°12’24"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Saltash |
| Postcode: | PL12 |
| Dialling code: | 01752 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South East Cornwall |
Cargreen is a small settlement in southeast Cornwall. It is situated beside the River Tamar approximately two miles north of Saltash.[1]
Cargreen has a yacht club[2] and once had a thriving industry ferrying flowers across the river to Devon.[3]
In literature and on television
Cargreen is mentioned in "The Itinerary of John Leland The Antiquary 1534-43":
"ii. Myles fro Asshe [Saltash] Northward ynto the Land is a smaul Village cawled Caregrin, Est of this is Bere Parke and Hous in Devonshire dividid from Caregrin tantum Tamara"[4]
The BBC TV series The Coroner descended on the derelict Crooked Spaniards Inn, which provides the set for The Black Dog Inn, Lighthaven's local.[5]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Cargreen) |
References
- ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
- ↑ "Cargreen Yacht Club". cargreenyc.org. http://www.cargreenyc.org/. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
- ↑ Rita Tregellas Pope (2006). Cornwall Visitors Guide 7th ed. Google Book. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Di9KpeS8TxwC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=%22Cargreen%22+site:.org&source=web&ots=XWn09XKfg7&sig=WAv2FTxker96yBceYSmkQAxQ3lM&hl=en. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
- ↑ "Early Tours in Devon and Cornwall" Edited by R Pearse Chope. First published 1918, reprinted with new introduction by Alan Gibson 1967.
- ↑ Mikes, CG. "Cornish Guardian". http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/8203-TELEVISION-crews-descended-South-East/story-26876549-detail/story.html. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
