Tregony
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Tregony (sometimes in the past Tregoney) civil parish and village in the Carrick district of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It lies on the river Fal.
Tregony used to be considered a town, and the rotten borough of Tregony elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons, until the Reform Act 1832 abolished its representation as a rotten borough. The village is made up from two Parishes namely, Tregony and Cuby.
It has an excellent primary school in Back Lane. The areas comprehensive, The Roseland Community is just over the Parish of Tregony boundary and has recently had a brand new sports hall. It has also achieved specialist school status in Music with English and IT.
In the village there is a Post Office, shop, two churches and bus links to the nearest town, which is Truro. Tregony was the birthplace of the Anglican churchman Archer Thompson Gurney. The hamlet of Trewarthenick in Tregony civil parish, was the birthplace of William Gregor, a geologist-clergyman who discovered titanium.
[edit] External links
- Tregony local history site
- W D Pink - The Parliamentary History of Tregony, 1886
- Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Tregony
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