Qualla: Morvah https://qualla.com/morvah en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/morvah-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Morvah https://qualla.com/morvah Morvah: Introduction https://qualla.com/morvah/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Forty-nine. That is the population of Morvah parish, the smallest civil parish on the Penwith peninsula and one of the smallest in England. Forty-nine people, 1,270 acres of land, fourteen acres of foreshore. And yet this scrap of moor and cliff has produced a Late Bronze Age gold hoard now in the British Museum, the most complete Iron Age hillfort in west Cornwall, a Neolithic quoit older than Stonehenge, and a parish church whose west tower has stood since the 14th century. The world's largest things and the world's smallest sometimes share an address.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/morvah-wp/gbgv-morvah-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Morvah: A Few Houses and a Church https://qualla.com/morvah/ Photo credit Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0. Morvah churchtown is a row of granite houses, a dairy farm, an old schoolhouse, and St Bridget's church, strung along the B3306 about eight miles west-southwest of St Ives. The chancel and nave were rebuilt in 1828, leaving only the two-staged, unbuttressed west tower from the 14...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/morvah-wp/gbgv-morvah-a-few-houses-and-a-church.mp3 0:06 2 full Morvah: The Gold from Carne Farm https://qualla.com/morvah/ Photo credit David Johnson [1], CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1884, quarrymen breaking ground for building stone at Carne Farm uncovered six gold bracelets buried in the soil. Three of them ended in distinctive trumpet-shaped flares; one was incised with geometric ornament. Specialists later dated them to the late Bronze Age, around 1000...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/morvah-wp/gbgv-morvah-the-gold-from-carne-farm.mp3 0:06 3 full Morvah: Chûn Quoit and Chûn Castle https://qualla.com/morvah/ Photo credit Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the moor a short walk south of the village stands the parish's most striking monument: Chûn Quoit, a Neolithic dolmen built around 3500 BC. Four upright granite slabs hold up a single great capstone, the whole structure roughly the size of a small cabin and weathered to the co...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/morvah-wp/gbgv-morvah-ch-n-quoit-and-ch-n-castle.mp3 0:06 4 full Morvah: Morvah Consols https://qualla.com/morvah/ Photo credit Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0. The 19th century brought industry to Morvah, briefly, in the form of Morvah Consols mine. It was first opened sometime in the 1820s and reborn in 1851 with backing from the Levant adventurers; the surviving engine house dates from 1871. A second engine was bought in from the Ball...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/morvah-wp/gbgv-morvah-morvah-consols.mp3 0:06 5 full Morvah: Pasty Day and a Ship Off the Rocks https://qualla.com/morvah/ Photo credit Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0. Morvah long held an annual fair in honour of its summer feast day, but as the parish thinned the fair could not be sustained. So Morvah now celebrates Pasty Day on the first Tuesday of every August, an entirely modern invention that has the air of an entirely ancient one. The for...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/morvah-wp/gbgv-morvah-pasty-day-and-a-ship-off-the-rocks.mp3 0:06 6 full