Ponsanooth
| Ponsanooth Cornish: Pons an Woodh | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 Ponsanooth | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW755375 |
| Location: | 50°11’49"N, 5°8’35"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Truro |
| Postcode: | TR3 |
| Dialling code: | 01872 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
Ponsanooth is a village in Cornwall, about four miles southeast of Redruth and two and a half miles northwest of Penryn. It is beside the A393 Redruth to Falmouth road.
The name is from the Cornish Pons an Woodh, meaning "bridge at the stream".[1]
The church of St Michael and All Angels is now part of a larger benefice, sharing a single vicar with Mabe.
The village has a shop which includes a post office, village hall, primary school [2] and a public house called The Stag Hunt.[3]
The River Kennall runs nearby: in the 19th century, this river worked a flour mill and a number of gunpowder mills, machinery at a foundry, and a paper mill. The gunpowder mills supplied many of the mines of west Cornwall until 1910, by which time gunpowder had been largely replaced by high explosives. The site of one of the ruined mills is now within a Nature Reserve.
Frederick Hamilton Davey the botanist (died September 23, 1915) was born at Ponsanooth and is buried in the Wesleyan Cemetery here.
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References
- ↑ Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 57
- ↑ "Kennall Vale School". Kennall-vale.cornwall.sch.uk. http://www.kennall-vale.cornwall.sch.uk/. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
- ↑ The Stag Hunt Inn at Ponsanooth