Rinsey
Rinsey
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 Cornish stone barn, Rinsey | |
  Rinsey Location within Cornwall | |
| OS grid reference | SW593270 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HELSTON |
| Postcode district | TR13 |
| Dialling code | 01736 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
Rinsey (
The name Rinsey is an anglicisation of the Cornish language Rynnji, which contains the words rynn 'point of land' (as in Penryn), and chi 'house'.[2]
History
Rinsey, in the
In the 29 April 1880 edition of The Cornishman Rinsey was listed as one of the places in the Helston area with a fishing fleet.[5]
Mining
Wheal Prosper, (grid reference SW593270) on Rinsey East Cliff, started operating in 1860 possibly as an extension of Wheal Trewavas mine, 800m to the east on Trewavas Cliff (grid reference SW600265). The mine is on the southern end of the Tregonning granite within the Wendron Mining District. By the time Prosper closed in 1866 it had produced mostly tin and a little copper from the Porthcew lode.[6] The prominent house on Rinsey Head is often said to have been the mine's count house (offices), it was built in the late 1920s and early 1930s by Mr G A Gibb, a London stockbroker, after he bought the land from Mr Bucket, a local farmer. Designed as an Arts and Craft style holiday home, rock had to be blasted in order to build the foundations, taking four years to build with stone from a local quarry.[7]
The New Penrose Tin and Copper Mining Company Ltd, which mined Trewavas Head went into liquidation in 1882.[8]
Natural history
In 1990 part of Rinsey Cliff was notified as the Porthcew SSSI for the mineral assemblage caused by the granite contact zone on the
Trewarvas Head is the site of a black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) colony usually with thirty-five nesting pairs although numbers can vary with just six active nests (all failing) in 2013.[11][12] Other breeding birds include European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) and European herring gull (Larus argentatus).[13]
In popular culture
The house on the Rinsey Head was a setting for a Rosamunde Pilcher story.[7]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
- ^ Akademi Kernewek place names - Rynnji
- ^ Polglase, Stephen (2003). The Book of Breage & Germoe. Tiverton: Halsgrove.
- ^ "Rinsey". Open Domesday. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^ "Helston". The Cornishman. No. 94. 29 April 1880. p. 4.
- ^ Iclok. "Wheal Prosper (Rinsey) Tin Mine (United Kingdom)". AditNow. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^ a b Williams, John (8 January 2015). "Home's TV role brings back fond memories". The Cornishman. p. 19.
- ^ "Mining". The Cornishman. Vol. 203, no. 193. 1 June 1882. p. 5.
- ^ "Porthcew SSSI" (PDF). Natural England. 1990. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ^ Penzance Sheet 351/358. British Geological Survey. 1984.
- ^ Grantham, Mark. "Rinsey Kittiwakes". West Cornwall Ringing Group. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ Grantham, Mark. "Nest recording in 2013". West Cornwall Ringing Group. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
- ^ Gratham, Mark. "22 April 2014 Rinsey Shags six weeks late". West Cornwall Ringing Group. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
External links
Media related to Rinsey Head at Wikimedia Commons
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