St Cleer: to stay or not to stay, that is the question

Whether to stay overseas or return to Cornwall was a question that many Cornish emigrants grappled with. Some seem to have found it very difficult to answer. St Cleer was a mining parish in east Cornwall on the southern flanks of Bodmin Moor. Life in the parish was revolutionised when its copper reserves began to … Continue reading St Cleer: to stay or not to stay, that is the question →