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. The original name was Medeschole 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.
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.
Facilities in the village are limited to a public house, a 16th century coaching inn called the Plume of Feathers, a telephone box, a post box and a bus stop. 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 an MP for Mitchell, as was Sir Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington). The village has doubled in size over the last ten years.
[edit] See also
Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)
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