Sithney, Cornwall

Description
Sithney, a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands 2 miles NW of Helston, and 2 from Nancegollan station on the G.W.R. The parish includes Porthleven chapelry, and is all within the Truro Helston parliamentary division. Post town, Helston. Acreage, 5826; population, of the civil parish, 3290; of the ecclesiastical, 1294. Penrose in Porthleven district, Truthal, Antron, Trevarno, and Newham are the chief residences. A preceptory of Knights Hospitallers of St John stood near Helston. Tin, copper, and lead ore were formerly mined. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Truro. The church is ancient but good. The vicarage of Porthleven is now a separate benefice. There are two Wesleyan and three other chapels and a church mission-room. The Loe, the largest lake in Cornwall, a piece of fresh water fed by streams and noted for its trout, divides Sithney from Wendron and Gunwalloe; it was evidently at one time an estuary, but is now separated from the sea by a bar of shingle; the surplus water flows into the sea through a very ancient adit or tunnel in the rocks, made before gunpowder was used for blasting. The lake extends from the sea in three creeks towards Carminow, Penrose, and Helston respectively. An ancient logan stone, Men Amber, near Nancegollan railway station, was overthrown by one of Cromwell's officers.