Trevillet or ''Trevillett'' is a hamlet in
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 located within the civil parish of
Tintagel
Tintagel () or Trevena (, meaning ''Village on a Mountain'') is a civil parishes in England, civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village and nearby Tintagel Castle ...
, to the east of
Bossiney
Bossiney (, meaning ''Kyni'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 the village, ...
village.
Trevillet was the site of a mansion built in the 16th century by Thomas Wood of
Lew Trenchard in Devon. His son John became member of Parliament for the
borough of Bossiney in the parliaments of 1614 and 1621–22 and died in 1623. The Trevillet slate quarry is nearby. In
Rocky Valley (the valley of the Trevillet River) are two mills; Trevillet Mill is now a private residence and was made famous by an 1851 painting by
Thomas Creswick.
Aelnat's cross, which was found at Trevillet and then moved to Trevena, is finely carved. The inscription can be read as ''Aelnat fecit hanc crucem pro anima sua'' (Ælnat made this cross for
he good ofhis soul) (the back of the stone has the names of the four evangelists): the name of this man is Saxon (together with Alfwy mentioned in 1086 he is the only Anglo-Saxon recorded in connection with the area). Since the first report of it described it being in use as a gatepost its original location is unknown; that location could have been associated with
St Piran's Chapel, Trethevy.
Trevillet Quarry was the largest slate quarry in Tintagel and at its height of activity employed 200 men. Although still open, it now employs considerably fewer. The saw house where the slate was cut up became the Maybridge Chemical Works which relocated to Loughborough in 2011 with the loss of 60 local jobs.
[Dyer, Peter (2005) ''Tintagel: a portrait of a parish''. Cambridge: Cambridge Books; pp. 214-17]
References
Hamlets in Cornwall
Tintagel
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