Crafthole is a village in the
parish
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of
Sheviock
Sheviock ( kw, Seviek, meaning ''strawberry bed'') is a coastal civil parish and a hamlet in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is two miles (3 km) south of St Germans and three miles (5 km) south-west of Saltash.
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, in southeast
Cornwall
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,
England
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, UK.
The village has a
pub
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(Finnygook Inn),
Post Office
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, shop,
Methodist
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chapel, and
village hall
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United Kingdom
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.
History
Crafthole in the late 19th century, was notorious for smuggling rum which was very valuable. The pirates used the harbour of
Portwrinkle
Portwrinkle ( kw, Porthwykkel) is a small coastal village in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is at the western end of Whitsand Bay five miles (8 km) south-west of Saltash.
Portwinkle was traditionally a fishing village an ...
to dock the boats, from which the rum was offloaded and taken up the steep hill connecting the two villages to Crafthole. One of the prime places the rum was stored was in the room below the Methodist chapel which was built in 1867.
Landmarks
A stone cross stands by the side of the road. It was first recorded in 1858 as a cross without a base. By 1896 it was standing on a base; in the 1950s it was removed to the side of the road from its previous site in the middle. Crafthole was granted a weekly market in 1315; it has been suggested that this cross was the market cross.
[Historic England (1939) Medieval wayside cross at Crafthole]
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National Heritage List for England
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References
Villages in Cornwall
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