Tregony

Tregony (also spelled Tregoney) is a village on the east bank of the River Fal, 6 miles east of Truro. The Fal was once navigable up to a port here, and by 1201 Tregony had become a borough. From 1559 it sent two members to Parliament, until the Reform Act 1832 abolished the seat. The river silted up, leaving the village stranded inland. Clay mining upriver near St Austell is usually blamed, and silt also built up after Tregony Bridge was put up around 1300.

Today Tregony is a quiet village with a shop and post office, the Kings Arms pub, a sports and social club and a primary school on Back Lane. The parish church is the Grade I listed St Cuby’s at Cuby, because the original church of St James was lost to the river in the 16th century. The almshouses date from 1696 and were rebuilt in 1895. William Gregor, the clergyman who discovered titanium, was born at nearby Trewarthenick, and Captain William Hennah, who commanded HMS Mars at Trafalgar, retired to the village.

Tregony also works as a starting point for the Roseland Peninsula to the south. St Mawes, Portscatho, Veryan and the beaches at Pendower and Carne are all reached by the road south.