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PENNANCE

Photographs by Stu Roberts, used with permission.
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White clouds about to roll over the fields of Pennance?
No, just the view of being at the edge of clay country.



The above photo was taken from the main St. Austell to Newquay road (A3058) just above Pennance farm.
It appears as if the clay waste tips are about to envelop the farm.



View of Pennance from another direction......



.....and another, check out the pheasant.



This picture, and the following two, are vistas from the waste tips near Pennance to St Stephen In Brannel Churchtown.







"Pennans is named as [a] parcel of the Manor of Tolgarrock in 1379 (9.v). In 1540 part of Pennans &
Pennans Downe was held by Constantine Surton as a conventionary tenant of that manor.....



.....but the rent - viz 1 acre Cornish - was held [?freely] in socage ₁ by Sir John Arundell of Lan[hern?]". ₃


"In the Arndell (sic) Survey of 1659 he paid Pennance in St Stephens held by Nichs. Cossen mercht.
and after by Lewis Trethewey gent - in socage of the Arndells (sic) Manor of Reperry in Lanivet.....



.....by rent of 12d and no suit - [?] viz reckoned? an acre Cornish. And of this 1d and 13d [?] suit
were paid (note: a pound sign here) the "Lord of Carheys" [ie of Tolgarrick] - so the
Arundells as messue ₂ lords paid out 1d more than they received". ₃



In Cornish Pennance [Pennans] means penn, end or head, and nans, valley. ₄

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1 - "The Record Interpreter: A Collection of Abbreviations, Latin Words and Names Used in English Historical Manuscripts and Records, Compiled by Charles Trice Martin, 2nd Edition, 1889, Reprint 1997; page 320, socagium : - socage; plough service, a tenure inferior to tenure by knight-service.
2 - ibid; page 280, messaria: - "the office and profits of a farm bailiff"
3 - LDS Family History Center Microfilm Number 0254238, item 3; "Henderson History of Parish St. Stephen Including Pedigrees", unpaged.
4 - The History of Cornish in the Parish of St Stephen In Brannel, Pol Hodge, The Cornish Language Board, 1998, ISBN 0 907064 88 4, page 14

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