Pendoggett () is a village in the

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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

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Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...

, England, United Kingdom. It is a linear village stradling the B3314

Wadebridge Wadebridge (; ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town straddles the River Camel upstream from Padstow.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' The pe ...

Delabole Delabole () is a large village and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which lies approximately two miles (3 km) west of Camelford. The village of Delabole came into existence in the early 20th century; it is named af ...

road about five miles (8 km) northwest of Wadebridge, four miles (6.5 km) southeast of Delabole, and two miles (3 km) southeast of

Port Isaac Port Isaac () is a small fishing village on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. The nearest towns are Wadebridge and Camelford, each away. A nearby hamlet, Port Gaverne, is sometimes considered to be part of ...

. Pendoggett has a population of about 175 people. The name means head of two woods in Cornish; 'Penn' meaning head, 'dew' meaning two and 'goes' being a mutation of 'koes' which means wood. The Cornish Arms is a 16th-century inn. The boundary of the

Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty The Cornwall National Landscape (formerly the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) covers in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; that is, about 27% of the total area of the county. It comprises 12 separate areas, designated under the Na ...

(AONB) follows the B3314 through Pendoggett village, meaning that part of the village is inside the AONB and part is outside.

History

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was popular in

and a Methodist chapel was built in Pendogget in 1830 which, as with many local chapels, was aligned with the United Free Methodists from 1854. Around 1900 a new larger chapel was built with a capacity of 120 persons while the old chapel was used as a Sunday School. The old chapel became redundant in the early 1970s and by 2000 both the old and new chapels had been converted for residential use.

Transport

From opening in 1895 until it closed in 1967, the nearest station to Pendoggett was Port Isaac Road. In 2021, Pendoggett is served by two bus routes, both operated by Transport for Cornwall. There are 7 buses available daily travelling towards Wadebridge and 6 travelling towards Launceston, all of these being Transport for Cornwall service 10. On Sundays, Pendoggett is served by route 95 with 6 bususe towards Wadebridge and four towards

Bude Bude (, locally or ; Cornish language, Cornish ) is a seaside town in north Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet (also known locally as the River Strat). It was sometimes formerly known as ...

Geology and mining

While the coast of

North Cornwall North Cornwall () is an area of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is also the name of a former local government district, which was administered from Bodmin and Wadebridge . Other towns in the area are Launceston, Bude, Padstow, and Camel ...

is an area whose geology is dominated by

slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism. It is the finest-grained foliated metamorphic ro ...

, Pendoggett village is located on one of a number of outcrops of

dolerite Diabase (), also called dolerite () or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro. Diabase dikes and sills are typically shallow intrusive bodies and often exhibit fine-grain ...

. An outcrop of particularly high quality stone was quarried from 1921 at Tregildrens Quarry, about half a mile west of Pendoggett. Initially coal was carried to the quarry from

and stone carried out the same way, but the following year a siding was provided on the

North Cornwall Railway The North Cornwall Railway (NCR) also known as the North Cornwall Line, was a standard gauge railway line running from Halwill in Devon, to Padstow in Cornwall, at a distance of via Launceston, Camelford and Wadebridge. The line was opened ...

. By 1929, 65 men were employed in the quarry but it closed in 1956, and despite brief attempts over the next 20 years the quarry remained disused in 2020.

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