Carnon, Cornwall
Historical Description
Carnon, a stream and a village in Cornwall. The stream runs 4 miles south-eastward, down a valley, to the head of a creek of Falmouth harbour, 4 miles N of Falmouth. Great tin stream works were carried on at its mouth, over a space 300 yards wide, upwards of a mile long, some distance into the bed of the estuary, and banked round to keep off the water, but have been abandoned. The village stands a short way up the stream, and has extensive works for preparing arsenic from arsenical pyrites.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cornwall papers online:
- Royal Cornwall Gazette
- Cornishman
- West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser
- Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser
Visitations Heraldic
We have a copy of The Visitations of Cornwall, by Lieut.-Col. J.L. Vivian online.