Mitchell, Cornwall
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Mitchell (also known as Michael and St Michael's) is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the A30.
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.
The A30 By-pass was completed around 1990, with the only through road going to St Newlyn East. Since then the village has had a facelift to bring back some of the character lost with such a major road going through it.
Facilities in the village are limited to a public house, a 16th century coaching inn called the Plume of feathers. A telephone box and a post box. The history of the village goes back to the stone ages, flint arrow heads have been found in local fields. At the top of the hill at Carland Cross there are Iron Age burial mounds (Burrows). Sir Walter Raleigh was reported to have been an MP in the Rotten Borough of Mitchell, the governments way of employing explorers. The village itself hasn't grown much over the years even with the local Tin Mine at Wheal Rose, but since the flooding and subsequent closing there has been no commercial growth within the area.
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