- Mithian
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Coordinates: 50°18′43″N 5°10′10″W / 50.31191°N 5.16947°W
Mithian School near Barkla Shop
The Miner's Arms pub in Mithian
Mithian parish church near Chiverton Cross
Bridge over the long-closed railway near Mithian
Tower at St Peter's Mithian
The South entrance
Showing the window in the East end of the churchMithian is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately six miles (9.6 km) northeast of Redruth and a mile east of St Agnes.[1]
Mithian is in the administrative civil parish of St Agnes (in the former Carrick District). The population was 510 in the 2001 census. The village has a primary school, Mithian School, situated west of the village at Barkla Shop[2] and a pub, The Miner's Arms, in the village centre.[3][4]
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Church history
Mithian ecclesiastical parish was created in 1846 from parts of St Agnes, Kea, Perranzabuloe and Kenwyn parishes; previously the village had been enumerated as part of St Agnes and Kenwyn parishes. When created, Mithian parish included the village of Blackwater and so the parish church is over two miles from Mithian. The church, built in 1861, was dedicated to St Peter and rather remotely located north of Chiverton Cross at OS grid reference SW746471. The architect was William White. The original spire and tower became unsafe and were taken down in 1898; a replacement tower with no spire was built in 1928.[5]
The church faced closure in 2008[6] and a planning application was lodged with Cornwall Council to convert the building to residential use. In a local report the Reverend Alan Bashforth said: "The last service took place on Christmas Eve 2006 and although a small but loyal group tried to keep it going, building work costs in the region of £800,000 meant that was not possible. It was not an easy choice to close the church."[7]
Transport
When the first section of the Truro and Newquay Railway was opened in 1903, it passed south of the village. In 1905, extra stations were provided along the line as halts including Mithian Halt railway station.[8] The line closed in February 1963, the first Cornish railway to close under the Beeching axe.[9]
References
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth ISBN 9780319231494
- ^ [1] Mithian School website; retrieved April 2010
- ^ [2] Information Britain website; retrieved April 2010
- ^ [3] Beer In The Evening website; retrieved April 2010
- ^ [4] GENUKI website;Mithian;retrieved April 2010
- ^ [5] Daily Telegraph; 24 May 2008; retrieved April 2010
- ^ [6] South West Business website; news pages; retrieved April 2010
- ^ John Vaughan, The Newquay Branch, Oxford Publishing, 1991, ISBN 0-86093-470-5
- ^ Lewis Reade, Branch Line Memories; Vol.1. Atlantic Publishers, 1983, ISBN 0906899060
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