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Camborne in Cornwall County England History and GeographyCAMBORNE, a market town and parish in the hundred of PENWITH, county of CORNWALL, 4 miles (W.S.W.) from Redruth, and 267 (S.W.) from London, on the road from Truro to Penzance, containing 6219 inhabitants. This town, situated in the centre of an extensive district abounding with copper, tin, and lead mines, consists of several streets uniformly built, and contains many handsome houses, but is indifferently supplied with water obtained from wells of a great depth. There are two book clubs established in the town. In the neighbourhood are numerous cottages inhabited by the miners, dwellings for the superintendents of the works, and some elegant mansions belonging to the proprietors. The Dolwath copper mine, in this parish, has been sunk to the depth of one thousand feet, and extended laterally for more than a mile, in a direction from east to west; a small vein of silver was discovered in one of the branches about five years since, a mass of which was presented to Lord de Dunstanville, and manufactured into an elegant piece of plate: the number of persons employed in this mine exceeds one thousand, and the annual expenditure of the proprietors is more than £50,000: there are several other mines on a smaller scale, and the neighbourhood abounds with granite. The market is on Saturday: the market-house, a shed supported on pillars of granite, was erected at the expense of Lord de Dunstanville. The fairs are, March 7th, on Whit-Tuesday, June 29th, and November 11th, principally for cattle. The county magistrates hold a petty session for the district occasionally: a court leet is held in November, at which constables and other officers are appointed. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £39. 16. 10½. Lord de Dunstanville and another were patrons in 1827. The church, dedicated to St. Martin, is an ancient structure in the later style of English architecture: the altarpiece is of marble handsomely sculptured, and the pulpit of oak curiously carved: there is a fine Norman font, besides several monuments to the family of Pendarves. There are places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists and Bryanites. A free school for twelve boys and eight girls was founded in 1763, by Mrs. Grace Percival, of Pendarves, who endowed it with a house and £21 per annum. Mrs. Basset left an endowment of £10 per annum, which is paid to a private schoolmaster for teaching ten children. Attached to the Methodist chapel is a school recently built for four hundred Sunday scholars. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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