Roche, Cornwall

Roche, Cornwall

Roche is a village and parish in the Restormel district of mid-Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Near the towns of Bodmin and St Austell and also the Eden Project, the village is punctuated by "Roche Rock", an outcrop of granite with a ruined chapel perched dramatically at the top. Roche Rock has many folkloric tales associated with it, the two most famous being the legend of Jan Tregeagle, a seventeenth century magistrate, who after death found refuge in the chapel and the other being part of the Tristan and Iseult tale.

A road junction near the centre of the village is home to a few shops and businesses, and there is an industrial park on the outskirts which includes a Skip hire company called 1st Call Skips a large car breakers' yard called Combellack's. Trudgeon is a very common surname in the area, and the Trudgeon fraternity form the backbone of the local cricket club. Also nearby are a number of quarries.

External links

*Notes and photos of Roche Rock from [http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/650 "The Modern Antiquarian"]
* [http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='roche') Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Roche]


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