Qualla: St Just in Penwith https://qualla.com/st-just-in-penwith 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/st-just-in-penwith-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: St Just in Penwith https://qualla.com/st-just-in-penwith St Just in Penwith: Introduction https://qualla.com/st-just-in-penwith/ Photo credit Kernow Skies, CC BY-SA 3.0. There is no town west of St Just on the British mainland. Drive any further along the A3071 and you reach Sennen and then Land's End and then nothing but Atlantic for two thousand miles. In 1861 the population of St Just parish stood at 9,290 - busier than today by nearly twice. The mines were going full bore. There were ten public houses on the streets between the parish church and the Plain-an-Gwarry. When the tin collapsed, half the town emigrated; St Just families went to Bendigo in Victoria, to Nevada City in California, to Wisconsin and South Africa and South Australia, taking Cornish mining skills with them. The town that survived is small now, walked through in twenty minutes, but it has not forgotten what it once was.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/st-just-in-penwith-wp/gbgv-st-just-in-penwith-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full St Just in Penwith: The Identity of Saint Just https://qualla.com/st-just-in-penwith/ Photo credit Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0. No one is quite sure who Saint Just was. Some say Justus, the seventh-century Archbishop of Canterbury - but Cornwall's long resistance to the edicts of Canterbury and Rome makes this unlikely. A better candidate is Saint Iestyn, a sixth- or seventh-century Cornish saint said to ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/st-just-in-penwith-wp/gbgv-st-just-in-penwith-the-identity-of-saint-just.mp3 0:06 2 full St Just in Penwith: The 15th-Century Parish Church https://qualla.com/st-just-in-penwith/ Photo credit Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Church of St Just in Penwith is a fine 15th-century granite building rooted in something older. In 1336 the church here was rebuilt and rededicated by John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter; only the chancel of that medieval church survives, while the nave and aisles were rebuilt ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/st-just-in-penwith-wp/gbgv-st-just-in-penwith-the-15th-century-parish-church.mp3 0:06 3 full St Just in Penwith: Tin Country https://qualla.com/st-just-in-penwith/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The 19th century made St Just one of the most important mining districts in Cornwall. Within a few miles of the town stood the engine houses and dressing floors of Boscaswell Downs, Balleswidden, Parknoweth, Boscean, Wheal Owles, Wheal Boys, Levant, Botallack, and Geevor - some o...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/st-just-in-penwith-wp/gbgv-st-just-in-penwith-tin-country.mp3 0:06 4 full St Just in Penwith: The Plain, the Star, and Lafrowda https://qualla.com/st-just-in-penwith/ Photo credit Andy F, CC BY 3.0. At the heart of the town is the Plain-an-Gwarry, locally pronounced Plain an Gwarry: a medieval Cornish playing place, one of only two surviving nearly complete in Cornwall. It is a low grass-banked circle in the middle of the streets, used historically for Cornish wrestling tour...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/st-just-in-penwith-wp/gbgv-st-just-in-penwith-the-plain-the-star-and-lafrowda.mp3 0:06 5 full St Just in Penwith: Twin Towns https://qualla.com/st-just-in-penwith/ Photo credit Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0. Two place names tell you where St Just's emigrants went. There is still a district of Bendigo, in the Australian gold country of Victoria, called St Just Point - settled by St Just miners who took ship in the 1850s and 1860s for the Australian gold rush. There is also a sister re...

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