Porkellis is a village in Cornwall

Cornwall

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, United Kingdom

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. It is situated approximately three and a half miles north east of Helston

Helston

Helston is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately 12 miles east of Penzance and nine miles southwest of Falmouth. Helston is the most southerly town in the UK and is around further south than...

, and is located in the heart of the old Wendron

Wendron

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 mining district.

The village contains a pub (The Star Inn), a Methodist chapel, a village hall and a primary school.

Chapels

Porkellis has two chapels, the original one was built in 1814, and is Grade II listed.
The latter Wesleyan

Methodism

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 chapel was bigger and built in 1866 along side the older one. It too is Grade II listed. When the latter one was built the original was converted into a schoolroom.
Services now take place in the earlier Trinity Chapel as the state of the Wesleyan chapel is deteriorating.

The village also had a church (dedicated to St Christopher) which was built in the 19th century, and was a chapel of ease in the parish of Carnmenellis

Carnmenellis

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. This closed in the 1970s, but is now used as the village hall.

Porkellis Moor

This an extensive area of marsh land near the village, which was once used for mining, mainly for tin and a few old engine houses and industrial remains can still been seen here today.