Crows-an-Wra
| Crows-an-Wra Cornish: Krows an Wragh | |
| Cornwall | |
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 Chapel at Crows-an Wra | |
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| Location: | 50°5’29"N, 5°38’36"W |
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| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
Crows-an-Wra is a hamlet in western Cornwall, in the civil parish of St Buryan and approximately four miles northeast of Land's End.
The hamlet consists of a cluster of 13 houses along the A30 road, the oldest being the Grade II listed Haydon Cottage c. 1695. Other more distant dwellings including those at Boscarne and the hamlet of Rissick.
The hamlet developed with the local mines of West Wheal Rissick and Wheal Lovell and West Wheal Margaret all around 1853 to 1870, mines which once produced 15 tons of high grade tin, all now closed, and a china clay works nearby
The name Crows-an-Wra translates from the Cornish]] as 'witches crossing' or 'white cross'. A pre-Conquest cross celtic cross and a holy well are found here. The hamlet once had its own Methodist chapel built 1904 replacing an earlier chapel of 1832, but the 1904 chapel has since fallen into disuse and was converted into a house in 1983.
The composer Graham Fitkin was born here.
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