Tuckingmill, Camborne, Cornwall

Tuckingmill (Cornish: Talgarrek, meaning hill-brow of a rock) is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which is in the civil parish of Camborne.

Camborne-Redruth is the largest urban area in Cornwall, and is on the northern side of the Carn Brea/Carnmenellis granite upland, which slopes northwards to the coast.

[1][2] Evidence of prehistoric settlement is from the name of nearby Roskear, which refers to a fortified site, probably an Iron Age round (farmstead), and there are records of mills in the Red River valley in the 13th-century.

[3] The parish church of All Saints was built in 1843–44 in the Norman Revival style, with the north aisle having a heavy granite arcade.

[4] The church was renovated in 1878–79 by Piers St Aubyn with the raising and tiling of the chancel, removing the tower gallery, replacing the seats and repairing the walls and windows.

A reredos with an ″Irish serpentine″ border, inlaid with marble and also designed by Mr Piers St Aubyn was completed in November 1882.

With the demise of this economic activity, many thousands of jobs were lost and Tuckingmill became a bleak post-industrialisation urban area.

A Cornish property development firm called Porthia acquired a huge site at the centre of Tuckingmill.

View from Dolcoath Mine towards Redruth, ca 1890