Cremyll

There has been a ferry at Cremyll since the 11th century and it was a link in the main southern route into Cornwall until the 1830s. 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 in the 10th Century. An area of the Rame Peninsula, (up to Kingsand)…