Treskerby, Scorrier, Cornwall

4.1 The place name Scorrier was first recorded in 1337 and is thought to refer to the waste from smelting operations, suggesting that this area had been a site of early industrial activity. The placename Treskerby, referring to a farmstead to the south of the road, was first recorded as Treskerebig in 1394. The name may be composed of the Cornish words tre- (farmstead) plus an unknown suffix, or may represent a combination of the Cornish ros (heathland) + cribek (ridged), the name having acquired an intrusive initial ‘T’ as if it had originally been a tre- placename.

4.2 Treskerby Mine: The proposal site falls within the historic mining sett1 of Treskerby – an elongated early mining sett worked over a lengthy period, and including the early Wheal Derrick and eventually Wheal Chance and Park-an-Chy to the east and south-east respectively. The sett of this formerly important copper mine straddles the turnpike road from Redruth to Truro, the southern, larger section of the mine lying within the woodland forming part of the Scorrier Estate, the seat of the Williams family: local landowners and one of the most prominent mineral lords and mine promoters in Cornwall during the 18th and 19th centuries

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