Tuckingmill, Camborne
| Tuckingmill | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW658406 |
| Location: | 50°13’10"N, 5°17’1"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Camborne |
| Postcode: | TR14 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
Tuckingmill is a village in Cornwall, amongst the crush of old mining villages and hamlets become almost indistinguishable within the Camborne-Redruth conurbation in the west of the county.
The area was known in Cornish apparently as Talgarrek meaning 'hill-brow of a rock'. The name 'Tuckingmill' is a local word for a fulling mill, a mill in which homespun cloth was dipped, cleansed and dressed. There is a mention of a fulling mill in this region as early as 1250.
The parish of Tuckingmill was constituted in 1845 being carved out of a western section of the parish of Illogan and an easterly section of Camborne parish. It covers 1,300 acres.
Parish church
The parish church of All Saints was built in 1843–44 in the Norman Revival style with the north aisle having a heavy granite arcade. The architect was John Hayward of Exeter. The Norman font came from the chapel at Menadarva.[1] The church was renovated in 1878–79 by Piers St Aubyn with the raising and tiling of the chancel, removing the tower gallery, replacing the seats and repairing the walls and windows. A new organ costing £120 was purchased from Hele and Sons of Plymouth. The church was re-opened on Thursday, 20 February 1879.[2]
Industry
The Bickford Fuse Factory stood within the parish, where the world’s first safety fuse was invented and manufactured by William Bickford. A centre of the mining industry the parish contained, amongst many others, the greatest of all Cornish mines, Dolcoath Mine. Also in the parish is South Crofty Mine which was at one time the deepest in the world as well as being the last tin mine in Europe, only closing in 1998.
Economy and development
The area consists of terraced miners' cottages and rather barren industrialisation. With the demise of this economic activity, many thousands of jobs were lost and Tuckingmill became a bleak post-industrialisation urban area. However, in recent years regeneration has picked up as the village reorientates itself.
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References
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Cornwall, 1951; 1970 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09589-0
- ↑ "Roskear Church". The Cornishman (33): p. 5. 27 February 1879.
