Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall
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| Tuckingmill shown within Cornwall | |
| OS grid reference | SW658405 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | TR14 |
| Dialling code | 01209 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
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Tuckingmill (Cornish: Talgarrek, meaning hill-brow of a rock) is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
The parish of Tuckingmill was constituted in 1845 being carved out of a western section of the parish of Illogan and an eastern section of Camborne parish. It covers 1,300 acres (5.3 km2). Tucking Mill (Cornish: Melyn Droghya, from the verb troghya) was the Cornish term for a fulling mill which was where homespun cloth was dipped, cleansed and dressed. There is a mention of a fulling mill in this region as early as 1250.
Tuckingmill is a post-industrial village on the A3047, between the former mining towns of Camborne and Redruth. Camborne-Redruth is the largest urban area in Cornwall, and is on the northern side of the Carn Brea/Carnmenellis granite upland which slopes northwards to the coast. Cutting north-south is the deeply cut valley of the Red River which has been exploited for minerals and other industrial processes for centuries. Settlements between Camborne and Reduth were on the original country road which was turnpiked in 1839, later becoming the A30 and now the A3047.
Evidence of prehistoric settlement is from the name of nearby Roskear which refers to a fortified site, probably an Iron Age round (farmstead) and there are records of mills in the Red River valley in the 13th-century.
Mining was probably centuries old, with tin-streaming in the valley, when examples of deep-mined copper were recorded from the late 17th-century. Cook's Kitchen is recorded by 1690, as is Dolcoath, and on a 1748 map, mines are shown at Dolcoath and South Roskear. A copper foundry at Entral was started by Sampson Swaine and other gentlemen of Camborne in 1754 and Long Close, Wheal Crofty and Wheal Susan were mines operating in what is now the built-up area of Tuckingmill. The parish also contained, what is said to be the greatest of all Cornish mines, Dolcoath and also the South Crofty Mine which was at one time the deepest in the world as well as being the last tin mine in Europe, only closing in 1998.
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