New Mill (Newmill on Ordnance Survey maps) is a small settlement in west

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, England. It is approximately north of

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on the road to

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Geography

The area includes the hamlets of

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and

Bodrifty Bodrifty is the modern name of an Iron Age village, now in ruins, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 700 yards west of Mulfra Hill in Penwith District, 3 miles northwest of Penzance and 1.5 miles southwest of Porthmeor, on the high gr ...

, which has a former Iron Age settlement. Nearby is Trythall School and the former mission church of All Saints which was designed by

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and opened in 1885, to service the mining community. It closed in 1957, the altar was moved to Gulval Church and placed in the Harris Chapel which was renamed the Trythall Chapel. New Mill lies within the

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(AONB).

Industry

New Mill quarry () closed before the

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. During the 1880s it was owned by Messrs Freeman and Sons, employing fifteen men. Freeman's also owned the

Lamorna Lamorna () is a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately south of Penzance. Lamorna became popular with the artists of the Newlyn School, including Alfred Munnings, Laura Knight a ...

and

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quarries as well a yard at

Wherrytown Wherrytown is a small settlement in west Cornwall, United Kingdom, on the east side of the Laregan River, between Newlyn and Penzance. It was formerly in the civil parish of Madron and was incorporated into the Borough of Penzance in 1934 when ...

for processing the granite. They also employed hundreds of people in quarries near Penryn.

Cornish wrestling

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tournaments were held in meadow adjoining the Miners' Arms.The Cornish Telegraph, 6 October 1881.

References

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