AROUND AND ABOUT THE PARISH

 
Bathpool
 Battens
 Berrio
 Botternell
 Congdon's Shop
Illand
 Lanoy
 Landreyne
 Trebartha
 Trefursdon
Trenhorne
 Twelve Men's Moor
  
  

 

The two main centres of population in the parish are North Hill Churchtown and Coad’s Green.

Some of the smaller hamlets and other places are shown above. Click on any one to find out more. If you would like to add to the list and our knowledge of other places in the parish, please get in touch.

 

1841 Census of North Hill parish

The 1841 census recorded 211 households in the parish; shown below are the number of households in each place (spelling as shown on the census).

  • 26 - North Hill Village
  • 20 - Coad's Green
  • 11 - Illand
  • 10 - Newtown
  •   8 - Slippera Hill
  •   6 - Middlewood, Trevendel
  •   5 - Kingbeare, Lynher, Stonaford, Trebartha Cottages
  •   4 - Landreyne, Lewarn, Trefursden, Trewethy, Way Cross
  •   3 - Mean Hill, Trebartha Barton, Wayland Cot, West Tremollett
  •   2 - Bowda, Cold Quite, Congdon Shop, East Tremollett, Lemarne, Little Lewarn, North Boternell, Penhole, Port Lodge, South Battens, Trefuge, Tremollett Ford, Underway, Uphill
  •   1 - Boland, Cate Cottage, Clitters, Dower House, East Castick, Glubhole, Halfacre, High House, Langsford, Langstone, Lanoy, Lanoy Mine Cottage, Lawn, Mid Tremollett, Old Long Cottage Penhole, Priors, Swiss Cottage, Symons, Talcarn, Trebartha Dower Hse, Trebartha Hall, Trefursdon, Trekernald, Treswell, Trewortha, West Berrio, West Castick, West Tremellott

 

Views from around the parish
Old Battens Bridge (pre 1935 and a much earlier stone bridge)
1935 – Major Rodd opens the new Battens Bridge
1935 – Opening the Bridge at Battens
Round building at Illand

 

Trenhorne

‘A Breath of Country Air’ is a light hearted account of life in the ‘backwoods’...a small hamlet near the edge of Bodmin Moor - Trenhorne.

Read about:

  • The saga of the grinning gargoyles
  • The delinquent squirrel!
  • Jamaica Inn...the real story
  • A pheasant called Phred
  • The hamlet’s extraordinary link to Bob Marley

...and much more!

Illustrations by Private Eye cartoonist Robbie Bullen, and cover by calliejonesillustrator
All for the cost of a bottle of wine!
Available from Lewannick Post Office for £7, or by post (UK) for £8.50 - email John on jonbonjava@btinternet.com


Some of the farming implements that John has collected and are mentioned in the book.

 

A brand new telling of

The Case Of The Salmon Sandwiches

by noted true crime author

Available from Mango Books
Published in December 2021

Based on true events and extensive research

Sarah Ann Hearn, a widow, lived in Trenhorne, between Lewannick and North Hill. She devoted herself to the care of her sick relatives.

Her sister Minnie was a chronic gastric patient. An aunt had passed away a few years earlier, and Minnie’s own demise, when it came, was not unexpected. But then, in 1930, the painful death of a nearby farmer’s wife, Alice Thomas, apparently after consuming Mrs Hearn’s homemade salmon sandwiches, provoked local suspicion.

What had happened to the lonely widow’s supply of arsenic-based weedkiller? Who was Mrs Hearn, really? The strange truth behind the case of the Salmon Sandwiches has finally been unearthed.

The author's parents live at Botternell in North Hill.

 

The images at the top of the page show (L-R): Trebartha Hall, Lewarne and Illand