Books.

The area is rich in history and antiquities.  Recomended books to read are:

'The Romance of the Stones -Cornwall's Pagan Past.'  by Robin Payne and illustrated by Rosemarie Lewsey.   Pub.  Alexander Associates 1999.   Good illustrations.  Pendarves Quoit page 146

The Parish of Camborne - Some Notes on its History, its Antiquities and its People.           By J. Sims Carah, Vicar of  Penponds and Vice-President of the Old Cornwall Society (1924)

'Christian Antiquities of Camborne' by Professor Charles Thomas.  Pub. H.E.Wearne 1967.  This includes an account of the excavation of St. Ia's Chapel and hermitage in Reen woods  in the early nineteen sixties (SW65833815).  Hopefully, one day the remaining early medieval and Christian-celtic foundations of the site will be a listed as a schduled site by English Heritage.  There is also a description of  St. Ia's Cross, which once stood near St. Ia's Chapel, a large Christion-celtic granite Cross which now stands in the grounds of and to the west of  Camborne Parish Church (near the south church porch).

'Songs from the Earth'  Selected poems of John Harris Cornish Miner, 1820-84.  Editor D.M. Thomas.  Photographs by David Hills.  Pub. Lodenek Press 1978

'The Cornish Poet' Poems of John Harris by David Everett. Pub. Zipper Books Limited. 2002

The Meads of Love' by Paul Newman.  Pub. Dyllansow Truran 1994 

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