Kenneggy Downs

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Breage

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Cornwall

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South West

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50°06′46″N 5°24′16″W / 50.1129°N 5.4044°W / 50.1129; -5.4044

Kenneggy Downs is a hamlet on the A394, in the civil parish of Breage, between the towns of Helston and Penzance in Cornwall, UK. It is 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Penzance.^[1] Kenegy is Cornish for bogs.^[2]

The Grade II listed, 18th-century public house the Coach and Horses was extended in the 19th century and was originally an inn on the turnpike between Penryn and Penzance. Built into the fireplace is a circa, early 19th-century granite milestone with the inscription ″From Helston 1".^[3]

On 3 September 1879 a tenement was sold by auction at Kanneggie Downs.^[4] Kenneggy Downs is north of the twin hamlets of Kenneggy.^[1]

There is also a Kenegie at Gulval, near Penzance.

References

^ ^a ^b Landranger map sheet 203. Land's End (Map). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2002. ISBN 978 0 319 23148 7.
^ Pool, P A S (1985). The Place-Names Of West Penwith (Second ed.). Heamoor: P A S Pool.
^ "The Coach and Horses Public House". Historic England. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
^ "Kanneggie For Sale". The Cornishman. No. 58. 21 August 1879. p. 1.