Traboe
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Traboe (pronounced tray-bow) (Standard Written Form: Treworabo) is a hamlet on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Traboe is about 5 km west of St Keverne; nearby is Traboe Cross, a junction on the B3293 road.[1] It is approximately a mile down the road from Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station. It contains eleven houses and a building which used to house Rosuick Farm Shop, this being the purpose for which it was built. The list of houses includes a converted inn and a converted school house.
There is a well situated at the back of the green. A tree was planted on the green by residents of the hamlet to commemorate the millennium.
Traboe lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
The name Traboe is a contraction of the Cornish language Treworabo, which contains the elements tre, meaning 'farm' or 'settlement', and Gworabo, a personal name.[2]
History
[edit]In 967 AD King Edgar granted to Wulfnoth Rumuncant land in the Charter of Lesneague and Pennarth. Lesneague, together with Traboe, was later granted to the Benedictine monks of St Michael's Mount by Robert Count of Mortain.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190. 1961
- ^ Akademi Kernewek place names - Treworabo
- ^ "The Topography of The Parish of St. Keverne Cornwall". www.st-keverne.com. Archived from the original on 16 December 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
50°3′N 5°9′W / 50.050°N 5.150°W
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