Nancegollan

Fields near Nancegollan

Nancegollan is a village in the civil parish of Crowan in west Cornwall, England, UK.[1] Nancegollan is on the B3303 road and southeast of Leedstown. The railway line from Helston to Hayle passed through the village (closed in 1964).[2]

On Polcrebo Downs is the engine house of the Polcrebo Mine which was working in the 1890s but is of very ancient origin.[3]

References

  1. Maps (Map). Google Maps.
  2. Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961
  3. Todd, A. C. & Laws, Peter (1972) The Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall. Newton Abbot: David & Charles; p. 236