Ponsanooth

Ponsanooth (Cornish: Pons an Woodh,[1] meaning "bridge at the stream")[2] is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about four miles southeast of Redruth and two and a half miles northwest of Penryn on the A393 road Redruth to Falmouth road.

Ponsanooth Cornish: Pons an Woodh
Ponsanooth Location within Cornwall
OS grid reference	SW755375
Shire county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Truro
Postcode district	TR3
Dialling code	01872
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western

The church of St Michael and All Angels is now part of a larger benefice, sharing a single vicar with Mabe. Also the village has a shop which includes a post office, village hall, primary school [3] and a public house called The Stag Hunt[4]

The River Kennall runs nearby: in the 19th century, this river worked a flour mill and a number of gunpowder mills, machinery at a foundry, and a paper mill. The gunpowder mills supplied many of the mines of west Cornwall until 1910, by which time gunpowder had been largely replaced by high explosives. The site of one of the ruined mills is now within a Nature Reserve. Frederick Hamilton Davey the botanist (died September 23, 1915) was born at Ponsanooth and was buried in the Wesleyan Cemetery there.

References

1. Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
2. Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 57
3. "Kennall Vale School". Kennall-vale.cornwall.sch.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
4. "The Stag Hunt Inn at Ponsanooth - Homepage". Staghuntinnponsanooth.net. Retrieved 16 May 2015.