Cripplesease

Cripplesease
Cripplesease Location within Cornwall
OS grid reference	SW500367
Civil parish	Ludgvan
Unitary authority	Cornwall
Ceremonial county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Penzance
Postcode district	TR20
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western

Cripplesease is a hamlet in the civil parishes of Ludgvan and Towednack, Cornwall, UK.[1] The B3311 road from Penzance to St Ives passes through the hamlet with Ludgvan on the eastern side and Towednack on the west side of the road.[2]

Toponymy

The name is believed^[according to whom?] to have come from the magical properties of the water found in the enormous lake where a one-legged man died.^[citation needed] The Cornishman newspaper in April 1881 spells the name Cripples' Ease while reporting on a tenantry dinner in the Engine Inn.[3] Pool (1985) gives the same spelling but without the apostrophe.[4]

Cripplesease engine house

References

1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End & Isles of Scilly (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 978-0-319-23289-7.
2. "Parish Map". Ludgvan Parish Council. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
3. "Marriage Of Mr Carew Davies Gilbert, Of Trelissick, To Miss Dawson, Of Ballina Courte". The Cornishman. No. 146. 28 April 1881. p. 5.
4. Pool, Peter A. S. (1985). The Place-Names of West Penwith (Second ed.). Heamoor: P. A. S. Pool. p. 49.