Towednack
"The parish of Towednack, is only less wild than Zennor, and its 'church-town' (ie village round the parish church) consists of two farmhouses and an inn. The Church tower, of granite, very low and massive, is altogether unlike every other in the district, and being constructed without any attempt at ornamentation."
At one time, the parish of Towednack had about 22 tin mines (the last to close was Giew in 1923), and the Berryman family doubtless had many tin miners in its ranks. "This parish has been productive of much tin near the surface; . . . . "
"The parish of Towednack also affords some interesting examples of old Cornish domestic architecture...... Trevessa(Trevisa), a primitive village in the parish of Towednack, and one of the old homes of the Stevens clan. The farmstead probably inhabited, since it was built, by the Quick family. On the lintel: ‘P.J.Q. 1702 (Paul and Jane Quick’)" (a description of this house is on page 324 of reference 2, and details of the Stevens family on page 451)
At nearby Amalveor farm, once owned by the Berryman family, a gold hoard, dated at about 1000 B.C, was discovered; it is now in the British Museum, and comprises two twisted torcs, four plain bracelets, and three coled bars of gold.
Nancledra is a hamlet in Towednack. In the 1327 Subsidy Roll, it was Nanscludry, which means: "The valley of the sheltered habitation