The Eastern edge of the world
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A small coastal village in South-east Cornwall at the start of the B3247 road. Cremyll is on The Rame Peninsula facing Plymouth Sound. The village is about nine miles by road or half a mile by boat from Plymouth.
There has been a ferry at Cremyll since 1204 and it was a link in the main Southern route into Cornwall until the 1830's. In medieval times the ferry was part of the manor of Stone-House, held by the Valletorts. There was a larger community called West Stonehouse (compare with East Stonehouse) until it was burnt by the French in 1350.
Land on the Rame Peninsula was the earliest to be granted to an Anglo-Saxon Landholder as King Geraint of Dumnonia granted land at 'Magor' or Maker to the Abbey of Sherborne. However the area likely remained in Cornish control after Athelstan set the modern border at The Tamar River in the 10th Century. An area of the Rame Peninsula, (up to Kingsand) remained as part of Devon until 1844, when it was made part of Cornwall. The village is on the most Easterly extension of the Rame Peninsula, known as the "Forgotten Corner."
Today the Cremyll Ferry carries foot passengers and cyclists from Cremyll to Plymouth. Cremyll is on the South West Coast Path which is the longest of the waymarked long-distance footpaths in England.
The Edgcumbe Arms, an inn which dates back to the 17th century, was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1995.
Cremyll's former schoolroom and chapel was built at the expense of William Henry Edgcumbe in 1867. It is now a private residence, the Old School Rooms.
Cremyll has a pay and display car park operated by Cornwall Council with about fifty spaces, mainly there for visitors to Mount Edgcumbe Country Park.
Mount Edgcumbe Country Park Cornwall's Ferries South West Coast Path Cawsand and Kingsand
The Rame Peninsula