Cripplesease

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]

Cripplesease
Cripplesease
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSW500367
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPenzance
Postcode districtTR20
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western

Toponymy

The name is believed to have come from the magical properties of the water found in the enormous lake where a one-legged man died. 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 (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.


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