V Tree
A large V shaped pine tree on the Antony estate near Torpoint...
Seaton Beach
Located at the bottom of the Seaton River valley this sand and shingle beach is popular with families. At low tide it joins up with Downderry around the headland...
Seaton River
The Seaton River as it flows out of the valley and through the village of the same name...
Portwrinkle
Looking down over the one time fishing village of Portwrinkle. In the background is the start of Whitsand Bay as it stretches 4 miles down the Rame Peninsula...
I have a question about said village and wonder if anyone can help.
I am a bit of a collector of antique maps and one shows Sithney as Synny.
This is a very old map (at least 300 years old) and is genuine, not a cheap fake.
However the engraver of this map was well known for copying the work of John Speed and adding little details and/or embellishments of his own to make his maps seem like originals.
So I am a bit suspicious of the use of Synny for Sithney. But saying that his usual changes were more conspicuous than a tiny little village.
Has anyone ever heard of, or seen, the use of Synny for Sithney ?
If I remember correctly (it was a long time ago) older people in the village used a similar pronunciation when I was a child.
But that just might have been the local dialect - I am no expert.
Maybe the mapmaker had only ever heard the pronounciation "Synny" and so wrote it down that way. There's plenty of times mapmakers (OS) have got names wrong in Kernow and we've been stuck with the consequences because "if the OS says so it must be right".
Goldsithney is one of the few Cornish towns that still have an annual 'feast', although now its called St Hilary Feast. Looks like a village that specialised in hosting other places traditions! Its even pronounced "GolSITHnee" which sounds very much like Flamm's explanation.
I THINK St Hilary Feast is held on the Monday following the Sunday closest to January 13th, but I'm not sure, havent been to it for a few years...drink driving laws etc. etc.
Goldsithney "Goel Sithney" the old pronunciation used to be "Gol synny" according to the old folk when I was a kid (1950s)
I think Coady is mixing up St Hilary feast with Goldsithney Charter Fair held on the first Saturday in August.
Not really, two different things. St Hilary Feast is the Monday after the saints day. The Hunt have a meet in the village, and the pubs do a roaring trade all day, some local people practically open their houses to visitors all day. (or used to...)
Graham you are right they are two quite different things. the pubs do not do as roaring a trade as they used to by a long way.
The Charter Fair has now moved to St Pirians Hall and playing field and not in the main street as it always used to be. Because of costs (closing the raod, insurance, etc.
Until quite recently Sithney used to have a Treacle mine... in the Triangle by Merthyr Close.
It became a local landmark, so much so that a visiting paramedic was once given the instructions "from Parc-an-Ithan turn right at the treacle mine, then..."
"Sorry Sir, I thought you said 'Treacle Mine'!"
"Yep, thas right..."
Royal Cornwall was once held at Sithney I think...
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