Roche, Cornwall
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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 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.
[edit] External links
- Notes and photos of Roche Rock from The Modern Antiquarian
- Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Roche
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