Qualla: Pendeen https://qualla.com/pendeen en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Pendeen https://qualla.com/pendeen Pendeen: Introduction https://qualla.com/pendeen/ When Anthony Hopkins, playing Dr. Robert Ford on HBO's Westworld in 2016, says that Pendeen, Cornwall was "the only happy memory of his childhood," the line lands with people who know the place. Pendeen is a working village on the most westerly inhabited stretch of mainland Britain, a settlement of stone houses and granite churches looking out over a sea that has been mining ore, smuggling brandy, and sinking ships for centuries. It is named for the headland on which its lighthouse stands; it is overshadowed by the Carn, the hill that quarried its church; and it is in mourning, quietly, for the mine that closed in 1990.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/pendeen-wp/gbgv-pendeen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pendeen: Headland Fort https://qualla.com/pendeen/ Pendeen comes from a Cornish phrase meaning "headland fort." Before the present village existed, the name probably referred to the rocky promontory now occupied by Pendeen Watch lighthouse, or to Pendeen Manor itself - the farmhouse a mile inland that was the birthplace of Willia...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/pendeen-wp/gbgv-pendeen-headland-fort.mp3 0:06 2 full Pendeen: The Church the Villagers Built https://qualla.com/pendeen/ The Church of St John the Baptist stands at the heart of Pendeen, built of granite hauled down from the Carn - the hill that looms over the village - by the villagers themselves between 1850 and 1852. It was designed by the first vicar of the new parish, Robert Aitken, who took a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/pendeen-wp/gbgv-pendeen-the-church-the-villagers-built.mp3 0:06 3 full Pendeen: Geevor and the Long Goodbye https://qualla.com/pendeen/ Immediately north of Pendeen, on the cliff edge, sits Geevor Tin Mine. It is impossible to overstate how completely the mine and the village were the same thing for most of the 20th century. Geevor employed Pendeen's men, drank their beer at the North Inn and the Radjel, sponsore...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/pendeen-wp/gbgv-pendeen-geevor-and-the-long-goodbye.mp3 0:06 4 full Pendeen: Smugglers, Beaches, and Wrecks https://qualla.com/pendeen/ Like most Cornish coastal villages, Pendeen has a smuggling tradition; the cliffs and coves north of the village were ideal for landing untaxed brandy and tobacco. The Reverend F. J. Horsefield's 1893 book Life in a Cornish Village is the great early source, though Horsefield's e...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/pendeen-wp/gbgv-pendeen-smugglers-beaches-and-wrecks.mp3 0:06 5 full Pendeen: A Working Village https://qualla.com/pendeen/ The population of Pendeen today numbers in the hundreds, not the thousands. There is a community centre, a post office, a shop, a primary school - which the folklorists Iona and Peter Opie studied in the 1950s for their work on children's games and rhymes. There is an art club an...

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