Penryn Celebrates its 800th year!

15/07/2016

1) It's one of Cornwall's oldest Market Towns, cited initially in the doomsday book in 1086 as the manor of 'Trewel' (Treliever)

2) As the small community grew, it was supported in 1286 by Bishop Simon of Apulia; a Medieval Canon, Lawyer and Bishop of Exeter to legally separate from Treliever and expand into a thriving market town and prosperous Port

3) Penryn once extended as far as Mylor, Falmouth, Budock, Mawnan, Mabe, Constantine, Manaccan and beyond, though it is much smaller today

4) St Gluvias Church along with the lost fortification known as 'Round Ring', indicates that the first settlements would have been on that side of the River

5) By the 18th Century, there was a large commercial centre along the river.  In its heyday, Penryn exported dressed granite all over the world.  The stone was used in Gibraltar, Singapore and Buenos Aires, among many other places and used to contruct London Bridge and the South Bank

6) It is said a ghostly coach, drawn by a headless horse appears just before Christmas each year in Penryn.  People must avert their eyes when it passes or they will be spirited away

7) One of the key pubs in the town is the King Arms which is over 200 years old

8) In 1259, Henry III granted a weekly market in the town

9) Trembroath Campus is the towns most recent development and the home to both University of Exter and Falmouth University.  The name 'Tremough' translates in Cornish to mean pig farm, although prior to becoming a university campus it was a Catholic convent school.

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