Devoran, Perranarworthal, and Restronguet
Devoran is a village at the tidal limit of Restronguet Creek, which branches off the Carrick Roads (the main body of water in Falmouth Harbour). Devoran is on the east side of the creek, but another channel, the River Kennal, branches off and runs roughly west up to Perran Wharf in Perranarworthal.
Here, on the main Truro to Falmouth road, is the Norway Inn. Ships used to bring timber here from Norway for use as pit props, etc, in the mines.
(Near here, in July 2015, a female dolphinl died after getting stuck in the reeds, well out of its normal territory.)
Perran Wharf is the site of an early iron foundry, producing machinery for the mines; there was once talk of preserving it as a museum, but now it is being converted into housing, using the original buildings. The creek that reaches Perran Wharf is the lower reaches of the River Kennal, and although that does not pass through heavily mined country, there has still been considerable silting. Nowadays a sea-going ship would never reach the wharf.
Restronguet Creek dries out for much of its length at low tide. The mud banks are formed partly of mine waste from the many mines which once worked around the Carnon valley, NW of Devoran, and the mud contains so much alluvial tin that a mine was once built under the creek to exploit this resource. This whole area is subject to heavy silting, and only fairly shallow draught vessels can reach Devoran on the tide, although in historical times the tidal limit was further up the Carnon valley.
(Near here, in July 2015, a female dolphinl died after getting stuck in the reeds, well out of its normal territory.)
Perran Wharf is the site of an early iron foundry, producing machinery for the mines; there was once talk of preserving it as a museum, but now it is being converted into housing, using the original buildings. The creek that reaches Perran Wharf is the lower reaches of the River Kennal, and although that does not pass through heavily mined country, there has still been considerable silting. Nowadays a sea-going ship would never reach the wharf.
Restronguet Creek dries out for much of its length at low tide. The mud banks are formed partly of mine waste from the many mines which once worked around the Carnon valley, NW of Devoran, and the mud contains so much alluvial tin that a mine was once built under the creek to exploit this resource. This whole area is subject to heavy silting, and only fairly shallow draught vessels can reach Devoran on the tide, although in historical times the tidal limit was further up the Carnon valley.
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