Portreath Harbour and Beach
by Chris Thaxter
Title
Portreath Harbour and Beach
Artist
Chris Thaxter
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Photograph - Photograph
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Portreath is a civil parish, village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England.
The name Portreath (meaning "sandy cove") was first recorded in 1485. Tin streaming in the valley was recorded from 1602, and the first quay was built in 1713 near Amy's Point,though it was destroyed by the sea before 1749. The village also had a fishing fleet, mainly for pilchards.
In the late 1770s, during the American Revolutionary War, lieutenant-colonel of the North Devon militia, Francis Basset, commanded local miners to fortify the port, which helped counter a Franco-Spanish invasion fleet gathered as part of the European theatre of the war, some of them still standing to this day. In 1786 he built a pier to serve the local tin and coal mines.
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