Alverton Bridge Aerial

Highly irregular, wouldn t you say?

Oops, you just said that!

Any idea how Love Lane got its name, treeve? I m wondering if it has any more significance that just some place courting couples went many, many years ago and the name stuck.

Just for the record (though noted elsewhere) the planning application mentioned above was dropped.
Someone else asked about the origin of Love Lane , as well as Creeping Lane - the names have been in use for at least 200 years.
The land thereabouts of Love Lane was in the hands of the Daniel family - maybe they were chicken farmers? L oef? ha ha.
I seem to remember, seriously, that a house in that lane was given as a wedding present; the cottage there at present is a mid 19th century re-build, using remnants from perhaps two cottages. The other one opposite is a modern conversion of a horse stable and hay loft.

Yes, I remember the old horse stable from my childhood (grew up in Toltuff Crescent) - there was an old car kept in it for many years - might have been semi-vintage but I can t remember now.
Can t say I like the look of that new house there now - looks well out of place.

Heartily agree, but then, my memory of Love lane is that is was a bridle path, with no tarmac/bitmac. No vehicles to speak of at all. We could walk the lane in peace and quiet. Now it is a common thoroughfare, car drivers take the view that pedestrians should not be there, and drive at wild speeds, in house music drum n base as loud as possible in vehicles that look more in place on Bonneville Salt Flats. Cars are parked in the most inconvenient places, for which some suitable visiting card is left for their consideration.

This picture from pre-Alverton Estate days is fascinating but confused me a bit at first. It s difficult to make out a definite Lariggan River or the THATCHED house whose name eludes me for the moment. Apparently, famed Cornish author Arthur Quiller Couch listed wells in Cornwall, and according to J.Meyrick, described a well (The Holy Well of Castle Horneck) in what would be the Castle Horneck Lane and the house s garden today. He wrote, This is a curious little well at the side of the road with two odd pillars, one on either side of it, and one only a shaped block of granite and the other a carved stone but palpably not originally intended to stand in the position it now occupies. The top of the well which is level with the road, has been until quite recently open but now a roughly hewn block of granite covers it but judging from the appearance of the pillars, one would imagine that in bygone times it had been regularly roofed in, particularly as there are two granite steps to get down to the entrance of the well from the road. The well faces the hedge and the water was considered very good for sore eyes . It s a tragedy that it has since disappeared.

Tredarvah Farm is shown, in line with the road which comes down Tul Tuff hill. I believe the well you speak of was further up the lane. I will look out the 1839 Tithe map of the area. I may be able to post that up, depending on its condition. The 1842 I have does not reach that far.

The map reference given by Meyrick is 463302 who says he visited the site in 1979 and says, giving greater detail, that the well was in that garden of the thatched house of Tredarvah Farm opposite the Pirate Inn. Thanks however.

So, it was in the area that was originally occupied by the Mill Pond, the area would have been puddled clay to retain the pond; there were two field streams that came this way, and that would account for the depth of water below the clay. Scrutes at the ready.

ps - I thought it was L and M Quiller Couch that wrote of the Holy Wells.