Lower Croan

Lower Croan
Lower Croan is located in Cornwall
Lower Croan
Lower Croan
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSX023715
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
List of places
UK
England
Cornwall
50°30′36″N 4°47′24″W / 50.510°N 4.790°W / 50.510; -4.790

Lower Croan (Cornish: Crowyn goles, meaning lower little hut) is a farmstead in Cornwall, England, UK.[1] It is in the parish of Egloshayle and Croan house (a quarter of a mile) and Croanford (half a mile) are to the east.[2] Croan House is a manor house of two storeys and seven bays which was built in the 1690s for a prosperous attorney.[3]

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin (Camelford & St Austell) (Map). Ordnance Survey. ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Bodmin and Launceston, sheet 186. 1961.
  3. ^ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., revised by E. Radcliffe. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 59