Waterside Cottages on Restronguet Creek - geograph

Chycoose ( kw, Chy'n Coos, meaning ''house of the wood''), Point and Penpol ( kw, Pen Pol, meaning ''head of a creek'') form a coastal settlement around Penpol Creek in

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, England, United Kingdom. The creek is a

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, a tidal inlet on the north side of

Restronguet Creek Restronguet Creek is a tidal ria in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a tributary of Carrick Roads, the estuary of the River Fal, and is situated approximately four miles (6.5 km) south of Truro and three miles (5 km) north of ...

. It is situated approximately three-quarters of a mile (1 km) west of Feock village which is four miles (6.5 km) south of

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. Chycoose is on the west bank of Penpol Creek and Penpol hamlet is at the north end of the creek. Point is on a small promontory where Penpol Creek joins Restronguet Creek. Trolver, a small coastal settlement, extends along the east side of the Penpol Creek south from Penpol. Today, all four settlements are residential in character with many of the houses having river frontages and all four are in the

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of Feock. Cornwall Council online mapping. Retrieved May 2010 However, until the beginning of the 20th century, Restronguet Creek was a busy commercial waterway with extensive wharves on the north bank. Penpol was a small port engaged in the export of

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and

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from the

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areas a few miles to the north and there were wharves at Point Quay served by an extension of the

Redruth and Chasewater Railway The Redruth and Chasewater Railway, (otherwise called the ''Redruth and Chacewater Railway'' using modern spelling), was an early mineral railway line in Cornwall, England, UK. It opened in 1825 and was built to convey the output from copper mine ...

; trains on this section of line were hauled by horses from

Devoran Devoran ( kw, Deveryon) is a village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is southwest of Truro at .Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 ''Truro & Falmouth'' Formerly an ecclesiastical parish, Devoran is now in the civil par ...

, a mile (1.6 km) upstream. Restronguet Creek and

Carrick Roads Carrick Roads ( kw, Dowr Carrek, meaning "rock anchorage") is the estuary of the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall in England. It joins the English Channel at its southern end near Falmouth. Geography It is a large flooded valley, or r ...

(the tidal estuary of the

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) are a popular centre for

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and

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and the quay at Penpol is now used for leisure boating. 'The Restronguet Creek Society' is a voluntary organisation formed in 1972 to protect and preserve the creek and its environs.
Restronguet Creek Society website. Retrieved May 2010

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