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Kenneggy Downs

Coordinates: 50°06′46″N 5°24′16″W / 50.1129°N 5.4044°W / 50.1129; -5.4044
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Kenneggy Downs
A394 at the Coach and Horses
Kenneggy Downs is located in Cornwall
Kenneggy Downs
Kenneggy Downs
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OS grid referenceSW570291
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50°06′46″N 5°24′16″W / 50.1129°N 5.4044°W / 50.1129; -5.4044

Kenneggy Downs is a hamlet on the A394, in the civil parish of Breage, between the towns of Helston and Penzance in Cornwall, UK. It is 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Penzance.[1] Kenegy is Cornish for bogs.[2]

The Grade II listed, 18th-century public house the Coach and Horses was extended in the 19th century and was originally an inn on the turnpike between Penryn and Penzance. Built into the fireplace is a circa, early 19th-century granite milestone with the inscription ″From Helston 1".[3]

On 3 September 1879 a tenement was sold by auction at Kanneggie Downs.[4] Kenneggy Downs is north of the twin hamlets of Kenneggy.[1]

There is also a Kenegie at Gulval, near Penzance.

References

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  1. ^ a b Landranger map sheet 203. Land's End (Map). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2002. ISBN 978 0 319 23148 7.
  2. ^ Pool, P A S (1985). The Place-Names Of West Penwith (Second ed.). Heamoor: P A S Pool.
  3. ^ "The Coach and Horses Public House". Historic England. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Kanneggie For Sale". The Cornishman. No. 58. 21 August 1879. p. 1.