Norris Green, Cornwall

Norris Green is a village in Cornwall, England, UK.^[1] It was enlarged from a farming hamlet so that it now adjoins the neighbouring village of Higher Metherell. Both settlements are within the civil parish of Calstock which borders the River Tamar, the county boundary with Devon in south-east Cornwall.^[2]

Geography

Above the Tamar at an altitude of 116m. (O.S.), Norris Green comprises 29 dwellings (27 listed in the Register of Electors) and has a population hovering around 60. Fields to the east sweep down to the woods of Danescoombe, reputedly the seafaring Vikings' route of ascent from the river to Hingston Down where they are believed to have joined the Cornish Celts in their last stand against the West Saxons in 838 (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.)

Danescombe's wooded western slope now forms part of the Cotehele estate. Cotehele House, an archetypal mediaeval stone manor house built mostly between 1485 and 1539 by the Edgcumbes, became, in 1947, the first property to be vested in the National Trust in lieu of death duties (N.T.). Cotehele Consols copper mine operated in the Combe during the nineteenth century.

Norris Green has a host offering bed and breakfast and a Caravan Club site but Metherell has two food pubs. These villages share community hall amenities, a primary school, post-office store, garden centre and farm restaurant all sited in nearby Harrowbarrow. Fuller services can be found at Callington (approximately 3 miles), Gunnislake (2 miles) or Tavistock in Devon (5 miles).

References

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Calstock Parish, Cornwall

Government

Unitary authority	Cornwall Council
Local government	Calstock Rural District

Places

Villages	Calstock Gunnislake Harrowbarrow St Ann's Chapel Latchley
Hamlets and other small settlements	Metherell Albaston Coxpark Dimson Drakewalls Norris Green Rising Sun Cotehele Quay
School	Calstock Primary School Gunnislake Primary Academy Harrowbarrow School Delaware Primary Academy
Places of interest	Cotehele Clock Tower Quay Calstock Viaduct Calstock Roman Fort
Religious Buildings	St Andrew's Church St Anne's Church All Saints St Michael and All Angels Albaston Chapel St Thomas Becket Chapel St Katherine's Chapel The Edgcumbe Chapel
Country Houses	Cotehele House Harewood House Honicombe House
Railway Stations	Calstock Gunnislake Chilsworthy Latchley Seven Stones Luckett Callington
Valleys or Waterways	Tamar Valley Silver Valley Danescombe Valley Honicombe Valley Cotehele Quay Danescombe Quay Trelawny Island Southcott Island Tamar Manure Canal

Mining

• Mining in Cornwall and Devon
• Devon Great Consols
• Hingston Down Quarry

Transportation

Bus	Plymouth Citybus
Rail	Great Western Railway Tamar Valley Line East Cornwall Mineral Railway Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway
Other	River Tamar Transport in Cornwall

Other topics

Boat Building	Goss's Boatyard May's Boatyard Nestakes Boatyard
Ships	Tamar barge Shamrock Lynher Tamar Ketch Garlandstone
Events	Battle of Hingston Down 838 Battle of Gunnislake New Bridge 1644 Calstock Landslide 2013

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