Junction on the A3071 at Tremethick Cross - geograph

Tremethick Cross (from kw, Tre'nmedhek) is a hamlet around a crossroads in the

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

Madron Madron ( kw, Eglos Madern) is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, Great Britain. Madron is named after Saint Madern's Church. Its annual Trafalgar Service commemorating the death of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was started on 27 Octo ...

, in west

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 ...

, United Kingdom. Between 1863 and 1884, the A3071 road, was a

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serving the mining industry at St Just for the transport of ore to the nearest harbour in

Penzance Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated ...

. A toll house, two miles west of Penzance, can still be seen on the crossroads. Tremethick, Tremathick or Trereife cross is a stone Latin cross which was brought to this site from Rose-an-Beagle in the parish of Paul.Langdon, A. G. (1896) ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 207–08 (citing J. T. Blight ''Ancient Crosses and Antiquities of Cornwall''; p. 45)

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