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Latitude: 50.2173 / 50°13'2"N
Longitude: -5.3005 / 5°18'1"W
OS Eastings: 164644
OS Northings: 40470
OS Grid: SW646404
Mapcode National: GBR FX93.DVV
Mapcode Global: VH12J.2SPS
Plus Code: 9C2P6M8X+WR
Entry Name: Trevithick Memorial Set in Wall Beside Road, Opposite Nos. 33 and 35
Listing Date: 12 September 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1328166
English Heritage Legacy ID: 66639
ID on this website: 101328166
Location: Camborne, Cornwall, TR14
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Camborne
Built-Up Area: Camborne
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Camborne and Tuckinghill
Church of England Diocese: Truro
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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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