Little Bosullow is a

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in the

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Madron Madron ( kw, Eglos Madern) is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, Great Britain. Madron is named after Saint Madern's Church. Its annual Trafalgar Service commemorating the death of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was started on 27 Octo ...

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, England, UK.

Great Bosullow Great Bosullow ( kw, Bos Chiwolow, meaning ''dwelling of the house of light'') is a hamlet south-east of Morvah Morvah is a civil parish and village on the Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Geography The village ...

is to the west, Bosullow is on the B3312 Madron to

Morvah Morvah is a civil parishes in England, civil parish and village on the Penwith, Penwith peninsula in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Geography The village is centred approximately eight miles (13 km) west-southwest of St Ives, Corn ...

road and Bosullow Common is to the north.

History

The Bosullow Wesleyan Methodists Chapel at Little Bosullow was renovated at the end of 1878 and reopened on 12 January 1879. Great and Little Bosullow were put out to tender on 10 June 1880 for a term of seven or fourteen years from the next

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. The property consisted of a dwelling-house, outbuildings, of arable and pasture land, of enclosed crofts and the rights of common over . On 19 May 1882 the cornerstone for a new school was laid by Mr T R Bolitho of Pedndrea,

Gulval Gulval ( kw, Lannystli) is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Although historically a parish in its own right, Gulval was incorporated into the parishes of Ludgvan, Madron and Penzance in 1934, and is now considered to be a suburb ...

. It held forty pupils.

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