- Mitchell, Cornwall
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Coordinates: 50°21′09″N 5°00′26″W / 50.3524°N 5.0073°W
Mitchell 
Mitchell village is on the former course of the A30 trunk road
Mitchell
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The old course of the A30 (now bypassed) at the west end of Mitchell village
Mitchell (sometimes known as Michael or St Michael's) is a village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated 14 miles (22 km) northeast of Redruth and 17 miles (27 km) west-southwest of Bodmin on the A30 trunk road.[1]
Mitchell straddles the old course of the A30 road but a dual carriageway bypass now carries the traffic north of the village. A 16th century coaching inn called the Plume of Feathers stands in the main street.
The original name was Medeschole[citation needed] and the first recorded mention of the village was in a court case in 1234 establishing the legal status of an annual market on St Francis's Day[citation needed].
From the Middle Ages on, the borough of Mitchell elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons but was disenfranchised by the Reform Act 1832.[2] Walter Raleigh and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington were both MPs representing Mitchell.
At Carland Cross, a mile west of Mitchell, there are Iron Age burial mounds and flint arrow heads have been found in local fields.
The Folk Cottage
Mitchell's fame spread during the British folk music revival in the mid-1960s when a folk club opened in the village. Named called 'The Folk Cottage'[3] (because it was housed in a semi-derelict farm cottage) it staged both evening concerts and thrice-weekly 'after midnight' sessions[4]. The Folk Cottage became known throughout the UK and played a key part in the burgeoning 1960s folk music and beatnik scene in Cornwall.
The Folk Cottage provided a springboard for many performers who would later become nationally known including Wizz Jones, Jacqui McShee, Clive Palmer (co-founder of The Incredible String Band), and Ralph McTell[5][6].
See also
References
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5
- ^ *Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
- ^ http://rprest.adsl24.co.uk/kernowbeat/folkcottage.html The Folk Cottage on Kernow Beat
- ^ [1] Wizz Jones website; Folk Cottage; retrieved April 2010
- ^ Chris Hockenhull; Streets of London - The Official Biography of Ralph McTell; pages 38-39. Northdown Publishing Ltd, 1997. ISBN 1-900711-02-8.
- ^ [2] Ralph McTell official website; Retrieved April 2010
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