Lelant
Lelant
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The railway station and old station building. The building is now a private house. | |
Location within Cornwall | |
OS grid reference | SW544372 |
• London | 300 mi (480 km) ENE |
Civil parish | |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | ST. IVES |
Postcode district | TR26 |
Dialling code | 01736 |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Cornwall |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Lelant (
History
The name is derived from the
At one time Lelant was an important town and seaport having a market and a custom-house.[11] A parish terrier of 1727 describing the bounds of the glebe land states that about 50 acres of land, and the vicarage, were overwhelmed by sand. The terrier does not give a date but does say that it was not in the living memory of man. In the spring of 1875, during the building of the railway line between St Erth railway station and St Ives, several human skeletons, graves and a building were found by a gang of navvies. Observers of the building thought it was of an ecclesiastical nature, and it is possible that it is the site of a pre-Norman church, burial ground and the former Lelant town.[11] Lelant was formerly an ecclesiastical parish being the mother church of both Towednack and St Ives.[12] The parish church of St Uny's Church, Lelant is at the eastern end of the village on the edge of the towans and overlooking the West Cornwall Golf Club.[2]
Lelant was a seaport in the Middle Ages, but the trade was lost to St Ives when the estuary silted up. In 1888 the Lelant Quays were offered for let from Lady Day (25 March). They had a water frontage of 574 feet (175 m) and there was a rail link to the St Ives branch line.[13]
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Lelant Church
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One of the crosses in the churchyard
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Another cross in the churchyard
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Woodlands cross
At Lower Lelant is a house called The Abbey which was built in the 16th century and renovated in the 18th.[14] In 1831 it was reported that much granite was quarried here, and that there were several tin mines nearby.[9] The family of Praed were landowners here for many centuries. The early 19th century politician and poet Winthrop Mackworth Praed was a member of the family, though he did not live in Cornwall.
On 15 October 1878, the School Board Office of Uny Lelant advertised for tenders for the building of a school to accommodate 234 children. The architect was Silvanus Trevail of Tywardreath.[15] The school, at Trevarrack, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of Lelant, is currently a public house.
The local community radio station is Coast FM (formerly Penwith Radio), which broadcasts on 96.5 and 97.2 FM.[16]\
Transport
Lelant lies on the short A3074 road that leads to Carbis Bay and St Ives, just to the north of the main
The village is served by two railway stations on the St Ives branch. The original station, Lelant, was built by the Great Western Railway in 1877 to serve Lelant village. Lelant Saltings was built in 1978 as a park and ride station to relieve traffic congestion in St Ives and Carbis Bay. However, in June 2019, the park and ride facilities closed.
The
Sport
The West Cornwall Golf Club is situated to the east of the village overlooking St Ives Bay and Godrevy Island. It is the oldest golf club in Cornwall.[17] St Ives Town play in the Cornwall Combination, a level 12 league in the English football league system. They play their home matches at the Saltings, which is between the village and Lelant Saltings railway station.
Cornish wrestling
Cornish wrestling tournaments were held in field opposite the Ship Inn in Lelant.[18]
Notable people
- Jim Barnes, golfer; winner of the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open, and the British Open
- Philip Christophers, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada
- Rosamunde Pilcher, author of romance novels
References
- ^ "The Cornish Language - Cornwall Council". Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
- ^ "Cornwall Council Interactive Map". Cornwall Council. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ Adams, Maxwell. "Lelant Administration". Lelant website. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ^ "Ward population for 2015 census". Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ISBN 0-7525-1851-8.
- ^ Archives of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, Number 3672.
- Tremough); and Adams, Maxwell. "The real and true name of Lelant". Lelant website. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ^ a b GENUKI website; Lelant. Retrieved April 2010.
- ^ Langdon, A. G. (1896) Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard
- ^ a b Noall, Cyril (1964). "Nineteenth-Century Discoveries at Lelant". Cornish Archaeology Hendhyscans Kernow. 3: 34–6.
- ISBN 978-0-300-12668-6.
- ^ "The Lelant Quays". The Cornishman. No. 506. 15 March 1888. p. 1.
- ^ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books; p. 100
- ^ "Tenders". The Cornishman. No. 15. 24 October 1878. p. 1.
- ^ "Volunteer run Penwith Radio to change its name to Coast FM". falmouthpacket.co.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
- ^ "West Cornwall Golf Club". Club Systems International. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- ^ The Cornish Telegraph, 2 October 1884.