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VISIT ONE OF THESE WITHIEL TODAY GREAT SPOTS Modern Withiel is home to writers, artists, small-scale manufacturers and of course farmers. > St Clement’s Church The entrepreneurial spirit flourishes here, > The Saints’ Way and it was the birthplace of enterprises as > Retire Common diverse as Cornish Yarg cheese, Sharps > Panoramic viewpoint Brewery, and the Ecology Party. There is a picturesque, panoramic view of the village > Celtic Cross including St Clement’s Church, looking south across the valley from ‘4’.

YOU CAN GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WITHIEL FROM:

Bodmin Information Centre Shire Hall Mount Folly Bodmin, Cornwall PL31 2DQ Tel: 01208 76616 (select option 1) Email: [email protected] Web: www.bodminlive.com

THE SAINTS’ WAY Withiel

Withiel lies at the halfway point of the Saints’ www.facebook.com/bodminvisitorcentre Way which runs for 30 miles from Padstow to Fowey and follows a route of early Christian travellers making their way from Wales and Ireland to the Continent during the Dark Ages. Bodmin Information Centre is open all year round The Saints’ Way follows a wonderfully varied course through valleys, woodlands, pastures, moors and villages, and the walker can expect to EXPLORE THE HEART see some of the most varied and beautiful OF CORNWALL… THE BODMIN scenery in Cornwall, enhanced by countless COMMUNITY www.bodminlive.com species of flora and fauna. NETWORK AREA A4 Leaflet Tri-fold - Withiel.qxp_Layout 1 29/10/2018 14:18 Page 2

WELCOME TO WITHIEL HWITHREWGH EGLOSWYDHYEL Gwydhyel a’gas dynnergh, Welcome to Withiel, Gwydhyel – means a wooded place in Cornish. – EXPLORE WITHIEL The village clusters around St Clement’s, a 1 Retire Common Grade One listed church. It provides a 2 Celtic Cross microcosm of Cornwall’s distinctive history and 3 Saints’ Way heritage, from the Bronze Age through the first 4 View Point millennium to medieval Cornwall, with its Celtic 5 Tregawne Barrow language, and via the industrial revolution to the 6 St Clement’s 5 roots of a modern rural community. 7 Cross at the Withiel House 4 8 Cornish Celtic Way The settlement dates back to pre-Norman times and had 25 households when it was surveyed for the Domesday Book in 1086. Withiel also has 3 links with 4th century Irish saint, St Uvel, indicating that there was a settlement here in the Dark Ages. ST CLEMENT’S CHURCH While the Church is a Grade One listed, the wall, gateway and privy on the south side of churchyard 6 are listed Grade Two. Withiel may be unique in having a listed loo! Historically the church and 7 Manor of Withiel belonged to the Monastery of Bodmin, from whom they became alienated in 8 1538. Withiel church was rebuilt in granite in the 15th and 16th centuries; it has been re-roofed and equipped with a new organ this century.

2 1 INDUSTRIAL WITHIEL Nature has reclaimed much of the evidence of Withiel’s rich mining history. Four iron mines operated around Withiel in Victorian times – Wheal James, Wheal Retire, Wheal Colbiggan and Wheal Rosewarrick. Tens of thousands of tons of iron ore were raised here, along with china clay, manganese, ochre and much more. Traces of the railway on which thousands of tons of tin and iron were hauled from Ruthernbridge to the wharves at Wadebridge may still be seen.