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Trevellas - Information
Dial Code : 01872 Population : 30+ (census 2001)
Trevellas is a small hamlet situated between St Agnes and Perranporth in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Though Trevellas is not even large enough to merit a post office or even a village shop, it does boast its own airfield. There are many scenic cliff path walks around the area. The area towards Trevellas Porth is known as "blue hills" due to bluish in-ground slate. Trevellas valley has been a site for tin mining for several centuries, and in 1810 the Blue Hills Sett incorporated many of the small mines. Though Blue Hills closed in 1897, tin production has continued in Trevellas to the present and the Blue Hills works can be visited throughout the year.
History
Trevellas is first recorded in 1302, and was for several generations the seat of the Trevellas Family. The estate then passed through the families of Kearne, Croker, St. Aubyn, Donnithorne and finally the Chilcots. In Magna Britannia it states the following:“Treuellis or Trevellis, a tenement in the manor of Tywarnhaile, was for several descents the seat of the family of Crocker; it belonged afterwards to Mr. Joseph Donnithorne, and is now the property of Mr. Chilcot. The mansion is occupied as a farm-house.”The estate was broken up in several sales, the final one being in 1948.
