Goldsithney
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Goldsithney (Cornish: Golsydhni, meaning fair of St Sithney)[1] is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the B3280 at grid reference SW546306, about four miles (6 km) east of Penzance and one mile (1.6 km) east of Marazion.[2] It is in the civil parish of Perranuthnoe.
The centre of Goldsithney is a conservation area and has two pubs (the Trevelyan Arms and the Crown Inn), a shop (The Stores Goldsithney). The village holds a Charter fair in August each year.[3][4]
Fair folklore
[edit | edit source]According to Popular Romances of the West of England by Robert Hunt:
On the 5th of August, St James's day (old style), a fayre is held here, which was originally held in the Church-town of Sithney near Helston. In olden time, the good St Perran the Little gave to the wrestlers in his parish a glove as the prize, and the winner of the glove was permitted to collect the market toll on the day of the feast, and to appropriate the money to his own use. The winner of the glove lived in the Church-town of Sithney, and for long long years the right of holding the fair remained undisputed. At length the miners of Goldsithney resolved to contest the prize, and they won it, since which time the fair has been held in that village, they paying to the poor of the parish of Sithney one shilling as compensation.[5]
Cornish wrestling
[edit | edit source]Cornish wrestling tournaments, for prizes, have been held in Goldsithney for a least the last 200 years. Tournaments were held at Henfor Farm,[6] the Old Fair Field[7] and Trevabyn Manor.[8]
References
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- ^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Cornwall Council website: Conservation Area appraisals and surveys. Retrieved 29 November 2024
- ^ Goldsithney Charter Fair website. Retrieved 29 November 2024
- ^ Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England (1903); Republished in paperback by Forgotten Books, 2008; Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Western Morning News, 7 July 1947.
- ^ Cornishman, 23 September 1886.
- ^ Cornishman, 8 September 1920.
External links
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