Roadside Houses at Ruddlemoor - geograph

Treverbyn is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

and village in mid-

Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...

, England, United Kingdom. The church of St Peter is modern as the medieval chapel was closed at the time of the Reformation. The parish was formed from part of

St Austell St Austell (; kw, Sans Austel) is a town in Cornwall, England, south of Bodmin and west of the border with Devon. St Austell is one of the largest towns in Cornwall; at the 2011 census it had a population of 19,958. History St Austell wa ...

parish in 1847. Treverbyn parish includes the villages of Treverbyn,

Carclaze Carclaze is a suburb of the town of St Austell in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The suburb forms part of the civil parish of Treverbyn and gives its name to the china clay works to the north.Carclaze mine produced tin and china cla ...

Stenalees Treverbyn is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The church of St Peter is modern as the medieval chapel was closed at the time of the Reformation. The parish was formed from part of St Austell parish in 1847. ...

, Penwithick,

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(the largest of these), Rescorla, Kerrow Moor, Carthew, Ruddlemoor,

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, Resugga Green, Scredda and parts of

Trethurgy Trethurgy is a village in the parish of Treverbyn, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about two miles northeast of St Austell. Carne Farm, Trethurgy is the birthplace of Silvanus Trevail, a president of the Society of Architects and the archi ...

. The parish population at the 2011 census including

Carluddon Carluddon is a hamlet north of St Austell and southeast of Stenalees in Cornwall, England. It is in the civil parish of Treverbyn Treverbyn is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The church of St Peter is m ...

, Greensplatt, Knightor, Lavrean and Lower Menadue was 8,016.

Hensbarrow Beacon Hensbarrow Beacon is a hill in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated a mile north-west of Stenalees village at . It is the highest natural point of the Hensbarrow uplands, a natural region and national character area. The natural s ...

near Stenalees is the highest point of the St Austell Downs. There is a railway station at

History

The Manor of Treverbyn was recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) when it was one of 28 manors held by Richard from

Robert, Count of Mortain Robert, Count of Mortain, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (–) was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother (on their mother's side) of King William the Conqueror. He was one of the very few proven companions of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastin ...

. There was one virgate of land and land for 3 ploughs. There were one and a half ploughs, 2 serfs, 2 villeins, 4 smallholders, 2 acres of woodland and 20 acres of pasture. The value of the manor was only 5 shillings though it had formerly been worth 10 shillings. The manor of Tewington was one of the seventeen

Antiqua maneria The Antiqua maneria (ancient manors), or assessionable manors, were the original 17 manors belonging to the Earldom of Cornwall. After March 1337 these manors passed to the new Duchy of Cornwall which was created by King Edward III to give fina ...

of the

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Mining

The area was once the site of tin and copper mines but during the 19th century extensive

china clay Kaolinite ( ) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4. It is an important industrial mineral. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral ...

works were established including one of the largest at Carclaze. The

Wheal Martyn The Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum is a museum of china clay mining, at Carthew, on the B3274 road about north of St Austell in Cornwall, England. A Victorian clay works has been preserved, and there is an exhibition building. Background The m ...

Museum is at Ruddlemoor and part of the area forms the Wheal Martyn SSSI (

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), noted for its examples of

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

. Also within the parish is ''Carn Grey Rock and Quarry'' SSSI, again noted for its

geology Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Ear ...

Eco-town

In 2009, the clay company

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announced Baal Pit and West Carclaze would be the locations for up to 2,000 new eco-homes. The project was estimated to cost £9 million. The Baal pit was used in the 1971

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'' featuring

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. The quarry was used to depict the surface of planet Uxarieus.Doctor Who - The Locations Guide
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