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As well as enjoying a week, or more at one of our lovely properties, you can also take advantage of our Short Breaks. Please go to the following links to find the type of holiday you would like to enjoy with us.
A mill known as Melynbran was recorded in 1342 and may be the mill, Conarditone, recorded in Domesday.[2]Angarrack is shown on maps as far back as the sixteenth century. The village was formerly a centre of industry with mining and quarryingand there were a number of mines in the valley of the Angarrack River. At the western end of the railway viaduct was the Mellanvrane mine where, before 1728, Dr John Woodwardcollected several specimens of tin for his mineral collection. At the eastern end of the viaduct was the Mellanoweth Mine where the North Deep Adit(a drainage and exploratory tunnel) continued to the Nanpusker Mine, further up the valley. An 1846 project to continue the adit up the valley as far as Binner Downs, just to the east of Leedstown, does not appear to have occurred.[3]
There were also four mills on the Angarrack River. One was at Trungle; one (Angarrack Mill) was at the far end of the village on the junction of Grist Lane formally known as (the fields) and Steamer’s Hill; one (Grist Mill) was situated at the northern end of the village; and one (Loggans Mill) still stands beside the Angarrack River at the eastern end of Hayle.[4][5][6]A smelting housewas built in 1704 and the mill(s) were converted into stampsto process ores from the nearby mines. The smelting house closed in 1881 and the only remaining structures are the manager’s house, smith shop and tin house which have been converted to other uses[7]
The main road between Redruth and the west once passed through Angarrack. Charles Wesley, following a visit to Redruthon 7 August 1743, was returning to St Ivesvia Angarrack and stopped to preach to a group of people who were at Velling-Varine (Mellenvrane). It is not known when a Methodist Societyformed but the first mention is in 1779 when Angarrack was part of the Redruth Circuit.[8]The first chapel was built in 1843 and the present chapel was built in a quarry, near the smelting house and opened on 10 April 1874. A Sunday School was added in 1889 and Vestriesin 1926.[9]