Pensilva

Pensilva (Cornish: Pennsilva)[1] is a village in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is at OS grid ref SX291697 about four miles (6 km) northeast of Liskeard.[2] Nearby settlements include Charaton Cross and Middlehill.

Crossroads in Pensilva village

The original small settlement grew quickly during the nineteenth century in response to industrial activity on the moorland north and west of the village.[3] There is a Church of England chapel of St John (a chapel-of-ease to St Ive).


The village has one pub, The Victoria Inn, located at the Eastern end of the village and one shop some quarter of a mile to the West. The village centre is about a mile from the edge of Bodmin Moor at Caradon Hill on top of which is a large mast for the transmission for TV signals to the area. Caradon hill is heavy with ancient mineshafts and engine houses from the late 1900's wherein various ores of tin, zinc and arsenic were mined. Pensilva is not generally considered a destination for tourists.

References
  1. 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.
  2. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
  3. Historic Cornwall website. Retrieved April 2010


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