Trewellard (from kw, Trewylard, meaning "Gwylard's settlement"; ) is a small village on the north coast road between St Just and St Ives in

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, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the

B3306 road The B3306, also known as the West Cornwall Coast Road, is a major road of southwestern Cornwall. It connects St Ives in the east to St Just in the west, and eventually joins the A30 road to the northeast of Sennen in the southwest of the Penwi ...

which connects St Ives to the

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. It is situated 7 miles from

Land's End Land's End ( kw, Penn an Wlas or ''Pedn an Wlas'') is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, on the Penwith peninsula about west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road. To the east of it is ...

and 7 miles from Penzance. It is in the civil parish of St Just and the electoral division of

St Just in Penwith St Just ( kw, Lan(n)ust), known as St Just in Penwith, is a town and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies along the B3306 road which connects St Ives to the A30 road. The parish encompasses th ...

. Trewellard lies within the

Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty The Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers in Cornwall, England, UK; that is, about 27% of the total area of the county. It comprises 12 separate areas, designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 for ...

(AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

History and geography

The village is in an area of outstanding natural beauty and a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI) due to the ancient

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workings and the penultimate working tin mine in

Geevor Geevor Tin Mine (from kw, Whel an Gever, meaning "mine of the goats"), formerly North Levant Mine is a tin Mining, mine in the far west of Cornwall, United Kingdom, between the villages of Pendeen and Trewellard. It was operational between 1911 ...

, that closed finally in 1990. Geevor is now a museum and forms part of the World Heritage Site of

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape The Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape is a World Heritage Site which includes select mining landscapes in Cornwall and West Devon in the south west of England. The site was added to the World Heritage List during the 30th Session of the U ...

. Down the lane from Trewellard is Levant Tin Mine which was the site of a terrible accident in 1919 where 31 men were killed. It has been long since closed and is owned by the

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which operates it as a museum.

Trewellard in recent times

The village has undergone some development in the last 20 years much of which is of late 20th century style and as such differs from the early granite dwellings in the village. In 2004

Penwith Penwith (; kw, Pennwydh) is an area of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, located on the peninsula of the same name. It is also the name of a former local government district, whose council was based in Penzance. The area is named after ...

District Council designated the centre of the village as a Conservation area. This means that planning permission can be more difficult to obtain and has increased the value of land within the village. The

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Chapel finally closed in 2005 due to declining attendance and an ageing congregation. House prices are now higher than the national average (as at 2006). It currently boasts two restaurants (one a

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), a pub and a garage. There is also a small rural industrial estate.

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