Qualla: Gunnislake https://qualla.com/gunnislake en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Gunnislake https://qualla.com/gunnislake Gunnislake: Introduction https://qualla.com/gunnislake/ Turner painted it in 1815. The picture is called Crossing the Brook, and the brook in question is actually the River Tamar, and the slender granite bridge at the center of the composition is the Newbridge at Gunnislake - built around 1520, 182 feet long, seven arches of large regular granite blocks. Nikolaus Pevsner called it the finest of the Cornish granite bridges. Forty-eight years after Turner exhibited the painting, a girl named Mary Ellen Smith was born here in 1863. She would emigrate to British Columbia, enter politics, and in 1921 become the first woman to hold a cabinet post anywhere in the British Empire. Gunnislake, then as now, was a village that punched harder than its size suggested.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/gunnislake-wp/gbvp-gunnislake-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gunnislake: A Village on a Border River https://qualla.com/gunnislake/ Gunnislake sits in the civil parish of Calstock, just inside Cornwall, with the River Tamar forming the boundary with Devon to the east. Plymouth is about ten miles south. The village is part of the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a designation that protects the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/gunnislake-wp/gbvp-gunnislake-saxons-vikings-and-romans.mp3 0:06 3 full Gunnislake: The Mining Boom https://qualla.com/gunnislake/ Everything about modern Gunnislake comes back to the nineteenth century, and to copper, tin, and arsenic. At the peak of the mining boom in 1862, the mines of the Tamar Valley employed around 7,000 people. Gunnislake stood among the richest mining districts in Europe. Brickworks ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/gunnislake-wp/gbvp-gunnislake-the-mining-boom.mp3 0:06 4 full Gunnislake: St Anne and the Holy Well https://qualla.com/gunnislake/ By the late 1870s the village had grown large enough to need its own church, and the people of Gunnislake set about building one. The land was bought on 29 January 1879. The total construction cost came to £2,400 - the Duke of Bedford contributed £500, the Church Building Society...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/gunnislake-wp/gbvp-gunnislake-st-anne-and-the-holy-well.mp3 0:06 5 full Gunnislake: End of the Line https://qualla.com/gunnislake/ The railway came to Gunnislake in 1872, eventually running north to Callington as part of the East Cornwall Mineral Railway and its successors. The line carried ore down to Plymouth, then passengers as the mines declined. In 1966 the section north of Gunnislake closed, making the...

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