Halgabron (pronounced: Halgáybron; kw, Halgigbran, meaning ''marsh of the carrion-crow'') is a
hamlet
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in the parish of
Tintagel
Tintagel () or Trevena ( kw, Tre war Venydh, meaning ''Village on a Mountain'') is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England. The village and nearby Tintagel Castle are associated with the legends surroundi ...
,
Cornwall
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, England. Halgabron is east of
Bossiney
Bossiney ( kw, Boskyny, meaning ''Cyni's dwelling'') is a village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is north-east of the larger village of Tintagel which it adjoins: further north-east are the Rocky Valley and Trethevy. Until 1832 t ...
.
The family of Robartes once held land at Halgabron. Halgabron mill was built on the Trevillet River in the 19th century.
[Dyer, Peter (2005) ''Tintagel: a portrait of a parish''. Cambridge: Cambridge Books ; pp. 170-71] It is in the
civil parish
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of
Michaelstow
Michaelstow ( kw, Logmighal (village) and kw, Pluwvighal yn Trygordh (parish)) is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about south of Camelford. The hamlets of Fentonadle, Trevenning and Treve ...
References
Hamlets in Cornwall
Tintagel
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