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50°07′08″N 5°34′41″W / 50.119°N 5.578°W / 50.119; -5.578

Junction on the A3071 showing the toll house

Tremethick Cross (from Cornish: Tre'nmedhek) is a hamlet around a crossroads in the parish of Madron, in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. Between 1863 and 1884, the A3071 road, was a turnpike serving the mining industry at St Just for the transport of ore to the nearest harbour in Penzance. A toll house, two miles west of Penzance, can still be seen on the crossroads.

Tremethick, Tremathick or Trereife cross is a stone Latin cross which was brought to this site from Rose-an-Beagle in the parish of Paul.

References

  1. Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. Philip's Street Atlas Cornwall. London: Philip's, 2003; p. 88
  3. Langdon, A. G. (1896) Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 207–08 (citing J. T. Blight Ancient Crosses and Antiquities of Cornwall; p. 45)

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