Chycoose
| Chycoose | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 Houses on the shore at Point near Chycoose | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW810387 |
| Location: | 50°12’31"N, 5°4’12"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | TR3 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
Chycoose is a small coastal village looped around Penpol Creek in Cornwall. It consists of the original hamlet named Chycoose, and its neighbours , Point and Penpol, which have become one village.
The name 'Chycoose' is from the Cornish Chy'n Coos, meaning 'house of the wood'. Pen Pol means 'head of a creek'.
The creek is a little tidal inlet on the north side of Restronguet Creek, the latter a broad inlet entering Carrick Roads. Chycoose is about three-quarters of a mile west of Feock village and four miles south of Truro.
History
Chycoose is on the west bank of Penpol Creek and Penpol hamlet is at the north end of the creek. Point is on a small promontory where Penpol Creek joins Restronguet Creek. Trolver, a small coastal settlement, extends along the east side of the Penpol Creek south from Penpol.
Today, all four settlements are residential in character with many of the houses having river frontages and all four are in the civil parish of Feock.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, Restronguet Creek was a busy commercial waterway with extensive wharves on the north bank. Penpol was a small port engaged in the export of tin and copper from the mining areas a few miles to the north and there were wharves at Point Quay served by an extension of the Redruth and Chasewater Railway; trains on this section of line were hauled by horses from Devoran, a mile upstream.
Sport and society
Restronguet Creek and Carrick Roads (the tidal estuary of the River Fal) are a popular centre for yachting and dinghy racing and the quay at Penpol is now used for leisure boating.
'The Restronguet Creek Society' is a voluntary organisation formed in 1972 to protect and preserve the creek and its environs.[1]
References
- Acton, Viv (1993) Life by the Fal: Years of change at Point and Penpol, Penpol, Landmark Publications ISBN 1-873443-10-2
- Acton, Bob (1997) Exploring Cornwall's tramway trails, Volume 2: The coast-to coast trail: Portreath to Devoran and beyond, Penpol, Landmark Publications ISBN 1-873443-28-5