TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS. 33 AND 35

TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS.33 AND 35, TEHIDY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328166
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS. 33 AND 35
Statutory Address:: TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS.33 AND 35, TEHIDY ROAD

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Date:: 2003-10-19
Reference:: IOE01/11560/01
Rights:: © Mr Ivor Corkell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1328166
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1989
List Entry Name:: TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS. 33 AND 35
Statutory Address 1:: TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS.33 AND 35, TEHIDY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS.33 AND 35, TEHIDY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Camborne
National Grid Reference:: SW6464440470

Details

CAMBORNE TEHIDY ROAD SW 64 SW (east side) 4/91 Trevithick Memorial set in wall beside road, opposite Nos.33 and 35 II

Wall plaque set up in 1919 to commemorate the site where Richard Trevithick assembled and began the first trial run of the first locomotive in 1801. Bronze plaque in chamfered granite ashlar frame. Landscape- format rectangle approx. 1/2 metre wide, with a picture of the locomotive in relief, and a raised inscription:- IN MEMORY OF RICHARD TREVITHICK TO COMMEMORATE THE SITE WHERE THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE WAS ASSEMBLED BY HIM AND FROM WHERE IT WAS STARTED ON ITS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL RUN TO BEACON HILL CHRISTMAS EVE 1801 ALSO NEAR THIS SPOT WAS THE ONCE FAMOUS WELL OF ST MERIADOC SUPPOSED TO POSSESS HEALING QUALITIES OF GREAT VIRTUE PEACE DAY JULY 19TH 1919

Listing NGR: SW6464440470

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Legacy System number:: 66639
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.