Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613520

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