Truro River (part 2)
01.09.2007.
20.5.2011.
The rest of the photos here are dated 01.09.2007
South of Sunny Corner, a foot traveller can leave the road for a while, and follow a woodland path. To the west, a drying creek leads to the village of Calenick, which was once known for a pottery producing Calenick Crucibles, used in the assaying of tin ore. The pottery was set up next to the Calenick Smelting House, and operated from 1770 to 1891. |
A short way south, the Malpas Road makes a sharp turn to the left at Victoria Point. (In 1880 the Royal Yacht moored here and Prince Albert went ashore to lay the foundation stone of Truro Cathedral.) The village of Malpas sits where the Tresillian River meets the Truro River.
We'll detour up the Tresillian River before we continue on down the Truro River.
The stone was collected from Porthoustock Quarry on the Lizard, and delivered all around the creeks of Falmouth Harbour. But the Council used the stone for road-building, in part because of the number of ex-army lorries entering the haulage trade after WWI. And ironically the lorries, not reliant on wind and tides like the barges, eventually put the barges out of business.
Not far north of here the A390 crosses the Tresillian River, which creates the effective head of navigation. (But because of the mud not much navigates this far anyway!). The tidal limit is only a short way north of the bridge. In the normal course of events, silting of the mud flats would continue, and the mudflats would become saltmarsh, and then flat meadows liable to an occassional inundation... These processes counteract the sinking of the SW coastline which is a result of the last Ice Age, but who knows what effect sea level rise due to Global warming will have?
The only thing that's sure is that the tides will keep probing inland as far as they can, and sometimes further than people expect!
Back to the Truro river:
The next stretch of the river is heavily wooded on both sides. On the west bank stands the ruined church at Kea.
The only thing that's sure is that the tides will keep probing inland as far as they can, and sometimes further than people expect!
Back to the Truro river:
The next stretch of the river is heavily wooded on both sides. On the west bank stands the ruined church at Kea.
The Truro river ends just south of here, when it meets the River Fal. The Fal flows in from the east,
but soon turns south into King Harry reach, and then into the Carrick roads.
but soon turns south into King Harry reach, and then into the Carrick roads.
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