Trevillet or ''Trevillett'' is a hamlet in
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, United Kingdom. It is located within the civil parish of
Tintagel
Tintagel () or Trevena ( kw, Tre war Venydh, meaning ''Village on a Mountain'') is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England. The village and nearby Tintagel Castle are associated with the legends surroundin ...
, to the east of
Bossiney village.
Trevillet was the site of a mansion built in the 16th century by Thomas Wood of
Lew Trenchard
Lewtrenchard is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district, in the county of Devon, England. Most of the larger village of Lewdown is in the parish. In the Domesday Book of 1086, a manor of Lew is recorded in this area and two rivers h ...
in Devon. His son John became member of Parliament for the
borough of Bossiney in the parliaments of 1614 and 1621–22 and died in 1623. The Trevillet slate quarry is nearby. In
Rocky Valley (the valley of the Trevillet River) are two mills; Trevillet Mill is now a private residence and was made famous by an 1851 painting by
Thomas Creswick
Thomas Creswick (5 February 181128 December 1869) was a British landscapist and illustrator, and one of the best-known members of the Birmingham School of landscapists.
Biography
Creswick was born in Sheffield (at the time it was within Der ...
.
Aelnat's cross, which was found at Trevillet and then moved to Trevena, is finely carved. The inscription can be read as ''Aelnat fecit hanc crucem pro anima sua'' (Ælnat made this cross for
he good ofhis soul) (the back of the stone has the names of the four evangelists): the name of this man is Saxon (together with Alfwy mentioned in 1086 he is the only Anglo-Saxon recorded in connection with the area).
Trevillet Quarry was the largest slate quarry in Tintagel and at its height of activity employed 200 men. Although still open, it now employs considerably fewer. The saw house where the slate was cut up became the Maybridge Chemical Works which relocated to Loughborough in 2011 with the loss of 60 local jobs.
[Dyer, Peter (2005) ''Tintagel: a portrait of a parish''. Cambridge: Cambridge Books; pp. 214-17]
References
Hamlets in Cornwall
Tintagel
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