Bissoe
| Bissoe | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW776414 |
| Location: | 50°13’50"N, 5°7’12"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Truro |
| Postcode: | TR4 |
| Dialling code: | 01872 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Truro and Falmouth |
Bissoe is a hamlet in western Cornwall, five miles east of Redruth in a former tin mining area.
The name of the place is from the Cornish Besow, meaning 'birch trees'.
Bissoe was the site of an early arsenic extraction works, the second such commercial works in Britain.[1] Frederick Hamilton Davey succeeded his father as Works Manager of the Cornwall Arsenic Company's factory at Bissoe in 1902, having acted as his father's assistant for several years.
Bissoe is not de-industrialised like many of the mining villages of the county: it has a small number of businesses, a cycle hire company, a concrete products company and an environmental waste management company.
Bissoe lies on the Coast to Coast Trail, a long-distance footpath and cycle trail. The trail is 11 miles long and links the interior of west Cornwall to the harbour of Portreath on the north coast and the former port of Devoran in the south. The trail follows the course of now-disused railways formerly used to carry imported coal and extracted minerals for export. Bissoe Valley Nature Reserve lies to the south of the hamlet.
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