Kenneggy Downs
Kenneggy Downs is a hamlet on the A394, between the towns of Helston and Penzance in Cornwall, UK. It is in the west of the civil parish of Breage and 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Penzance.[1] Kenegy is Cornish for bogs.[2]
The grade ll listed, 18th-century public house the Coach and Horses was extended in the 19th-century and was originally an inn on the turnpike between Penryn and Penzance. Built into the fireplace is a circa, early 19th-century granite milestone with the inscription ″From Helston 1″.[3]
On 3 September 1879 a tenement was sold by auction at Kanneggie Downs.[4] Kenneggy Downs is north of the twin hamlets of Kenneggy.[1]
References
- Landranger map sheet 203. Land's End (Map). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2002. ISBN 978 0 319 23148 7.
- Pool, P A S (1985). The Place-Names Of West Penwith (Second ed.). Heamoor: P A S Pool.
- "The Coach and Horses Public House". Historic England. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
- "Kanneggie For Sale". The Cornishman (58). 21 August 1879. p. 1.
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