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 River Tamar at Cargreen

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

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Cargreen)

References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
  2. "Cargreen Yacht Club". cargreenyc.org. http://www.cargreenyc.org/. Retrieved 2008-05-07. 
  3. 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. 
  4. "Early Tours in Devon and Cornwall" Edited by R Pearse Chope. First published 1918, reprinted with new introduction by Alan Gibson 1967.
  5. Mikes, CG. "Cornish Guardian". http://www.cornishguardian.co.uk/8203-TELEVISION-crews-descended-South-East/story-26876549-detail/story.html. Retrieved 2 January 2016.