Tregavarah ( kw, Tregoverow, meaning ''farm of streams'', ) is a small hamlet in the parish of

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 ...

in west

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

, England, U K. It is approximately 2 miles west of

Penzance Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated ...

. Tregavarah Downs is nearby.

Toponymy

Previous spellings of the name include ''Tregeuvoro'' (in 1262 and 1327), ''Tregouvoro'' (1316), ''Tregovarra'' (1316 and 1384), ''Tregewore'' (1345), ''Tregufora'' (1386), ''Tregevora'' (1451), ''Tregovara'' (1688) and ''Tregavara'' from the Tithe Apportionment. The spelling of the name remained ''Tregavara'' in

The Cornishman ''The Cornishman'' is a weekly newspaper based in Penzance, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom which was first published on 18 July 1878. Circulation for the first two editions was 4,000. An edition is currently printed every Thursday. In early Fe ...

newspaper which reported on the re-opening services of the

Wesleyan Wesleyan theology, otherwise known as Wesleyan– Arminian theology, or Methodist theology, is a theological tradition in Protestant Christianity based upon the ministry of the 18th-century evangelical reformer brothers John Wesley and Charles W ...

chapel on 22 August 1880. In June 1886 over £80 was raised in a bazaar, which provided a new

harmonium The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. T ...

and the balance going towards the fund for enlarging the

vestry A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government for a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquiall ...

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