Ordnance Survey
describes this location as "Point" and the wider village
behind the camera as Chycoose. It is an attractive location overlooking
Restronguet Creek in Cornwall, located a few miles to the south
of the previously-featured village of Cowlands.
Point is the
former terminus of the Redruth and Chacewater Railway, which
ran from Redruth down the Poldice and Carnon valleys to this
quay, a few miles north of Falmouth. The railway closed in 1915
due to an awkward combination of bankruptcy and its principal
locomotive, No. 1 Miner, being life-expired. Much of the
trackbed has now been subjected to a remarkably extensive example
of rail/road integration, but makes an interesting walk through
various ex-industrial bits of Cornwall. (Some of these bits may
be able to support vegetation again in another 50 years or so.)
The quay at the bottom end is now a village green overlooking
the creek - a particularly attractive sight at high water and
notable for appearing from here to be an inland lake. The exit
into the Fal estuary is to be found more or less in the centre
of the view, but is only visible if you actually take a boat
right up to it.
The picture
was taken on a quiet afternoon walk to visit a place marked on
the map as "Come-to-Good". This is strategically written
on the map to suggest that it could equally refer to a village
at the top of the hill or a farmhouse at the bottom. It seems
to refer to the farmhouse; the village is Penelewey (which presumably
wins some kind of award for having the highest proportion of
"e"s in a village name of over 5 characters). It would
help if the fonts for the names on the OS Landranger map were
different sizes. Anyway, the farmhouse is very attractively situated
and the walk was extremely pleasant, though the short November
Sunday afternoons meant that dark settled in shortly after Come-to-Good
and the return to Perranwell station was made with no reading
matter on a wet, dark evening with half an hour until the train.
For some reason the other pictures taken on this walk mostly
show long-exposure views of a damp provincial railway station. |