Cripplesease
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  Cripplesease Location within Cornwall | |
| OS grid reference | SW500367 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Penzance |
| Postcode district | TR20 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
Cripplesease is a hamlet in the civil parishes of Ludgvan and Towednack, Cornwall, UK.[1] The B3311 road from Penzance to St Ives passes through the hamlet with Ludgvan on the eastern side and Towednack on the west side of the road.[2]
Toponymy[edit]
The name is believed[according to whom?] to have come from the magical properties of the water found in the enormous lake where a one-legged man died.[citation needed] The Cornishman newspaper in April 1881 spells the name Cripples' Ease while reporting on a tenantry dinner in the Engine Inn.[3] Pool (1985) gives the same spelling but without the apostrophe.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End & Isles of Scilly (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 978-0-319-23289-7.
- ^ "Parish Map". Ludgvan Parish Council. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ^ "Marriage Of Mr Carew Davies Gilbert, Of Trelissick, To Miss Dawson, Of Ballina Courte". The Cornishman. No. 146. 28 April 1881. p. 5.
- ^ Pool, Peter A. S. (1985). The Place-Names of West Penwith (Second ed.). Heamoor: P. A. S. Pool. p. 49.
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