Pendoggett

50°34′54″N 4°47′24″W

Pendoggett
China Down
Population175 
OS grid referenceSW997809
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townST KEW
Postcode districtPL30
Dialling code01208
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

Pendoggett (Cornish: Penndewgos)[1] is a village in the civil parish of St Kew, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a linear village stradling the B3314 Wadebridge to Delabole road about five miles (8 km) northwest of Wadebridge, four miles (6.5 km) southeast of Delabole, and two miles (3 km) southeast of Port Isaac.[2]

Pendoggett has a population of about 175 people. The name means head of two woods in Cornish; 'Penn' meaning head, 'dew' meaning two and 'goes' being a mutation of 'koes' which means wood. The Cornish Arms is a 16th-century inn.[3]

The boundary of the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) follows the B3314 through Pendoggett village, meaning that part of the village is inside the AONB and part is outside.[4]

History

Methodism was popular in Cornwall and a Methodist chapel was built in Pendogget in 1830 which, as with many local chapels, was aligned with the United Free Methodists from 1854. Around 1900 a new larger chapel was built with a capacity of 120 persons while the old chapel was used as a Sunday School. The old chapel became redundant in the early 1970s and by 2000 both the old and new chapels had been converted for residential use.[5]

Transport

From opening in 1895 until it closed in 1967, the nearest station to Pendoggett was Port Isaac Road.

In 2021, Pendoggett is served by two bus routes, both operated by Transport for Cornwall. There are 7 buses available daily travelling towards Wadebridge and 6 travelling towards Launceston, all of these being Transport for Cornwall service 10.[6]

On Sundays, Pendoggett is served by route 95 with 6 bususe towards Wadebridge and four towards Bude.[7]

Geology and mining

While the coast of North Cornwall is an area whose geology is dominated by slate, Pendoggett village is located on one of a number of outcrops of dolerite.[4] An outcrop of particularly high quality stone was quarried from 1921 at Tregildrens Quarry, about half a mile west of Pendoggett. Initially coal was carried to the quarry from Port Isaac[8] and stone carried out the same way, but the following year a siding was provided on the North Cornwall Railway.[9]

By 1929, 65 men were employed in the quarry but it closed in 1956, and despite brief attempts over the next 20 years the quarry remained disused in 2020.[10]

References
  1. Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5
  3. "The Cornish Arms at Pendoggett". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  4. "Geoindex onshore". British Geological Survey. Natural Environment Research Council. 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  5. Felgett, Mary; Godden, James (1997). The parish of St. Kew, North Cornwall. Mary Felgett & James Godden. p. 77. ISBN 0-9530426-0-X.
  6. "10 - Launceston - Camelford - Wadebridge - Bodmin". Bustimes.org. Transport for Cornwall. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  7. "95 - Bude - Boscastle - Camelford - Wadebridge - Fraddon - Truro". Bustimes.org. Transport for Cornwall. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  8. Hawken, Burnward; Platten, Hilary (1999). St. Kew; a second parish album. Burnard Hawken & Hilary Platten. p. 17.
  9. Wroe, David; Reeve, George (2008). An Illustrated History of the North Cornwall Railway (2nd (Reprinted, updated and considerably expanded) ed.). Clophill, Bedfordshire: Irwell Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-903266-89-2.
  10. Felgett, Mary; Godden, James (2000). The Parish of St. Kew, North Cornwall. Vol. 2. James Godden. pp. 1–13. ISBN 0-9530425-1-0.

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