Scorrier is a village in

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, England, United Kingdom. It is in the

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St Day St Day ( kw, Sen Day) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated between the village of Chacewater and the town of Redruth. The electoral ward St Day and Lanner had a population at the 2011 census of 4,473 ...

, about northeast of the centre of

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and southeast of the coast at Porthtowan, on the

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at the junction of the

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that leads west to

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and the B3298 road south to

Carharrack Carharrack ( kw, Karardhek) is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated two miles (3 km) east of Redruth in a former mining area. The parish is of a rural/residential character, albeit with an ...

. The Plymouth to Penzance railway line passes through the village and between 1852 and 1964 it had its own station. A. E. Rodda & Son, the principal maker of

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is based here.

History

The village is in the Gwennap Mining District of the

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. The name "Scorrier" is first attested as ''Scoria'' in 1330. It means "mining waste", deriving from the

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word ''scoria''. Lodge to Tregullow - geograph

Tregullow House was a country house that had been passed down through the Williams family, a well-known local family that had made their fortune in the mining of tin and copper. At Tregullow there are two Cornish crosses: one of them formerly stood between

Ponsanooth Ponsanooth ( kw, Pons an Woodh, meaning "bridge at the stream") is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about four miles southeast of Redruth and two and a half miles northwest of Penryn on the A393 road Redrut ...

and Pengreep and was for a time used as a gatepost. Assa Govranckowe 1580, Kyver Ankou ''circa'' 1720, is a place on the Penwith – Kerrier boundary near Scorrier. Its

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is derived from ''keverango'' (meaning "hundreds"). Here the four western hundreds of Cornwall meet at one point (Penwith, northwest; Kerrier, southwest; Powder, southeast; Pydar, northeast).

Scorrier House

Scorrier House, just south of the village, was built in 1778 by John Williams the Third of the Williams family, from the fortune he made from tin mining; it was substantially enlarged in 1845.

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