Trematon
Coordinates: 50°25′N 4°14′W / 50.41°N 4.24°W
Trematon is a village in Cornwall, England, about two miles (3 km) from the town of Saltash and part of the civil parish of St Stephens-by-Saltash.
History
Trematon appears in the Domesday Book (1086) as the manor of "Tremetone".,[1] at 100 households it was one of the very largest settlements in Cornwall and West Devon, larger even than nearby St Germans.[2]
William Camden says of Trematon
...you come to the Liver, a little river stored with oisters that runneth under S. Germans, a small towne... Some few miles from hence upon the same river standeth Trematon, bearing the name of a Castle, though the wall be halfe downe, in which, as we find in Domesday booke, William Earle of Moriton had his Castle and held his mercate, and was the capitall seat of the Baronie belonging to the Earles and Dukes of Cornwall, as we may see in the Inquisitions. When the Liver is past this Castle, neere unto Saltash, sometimes Esse... it runneth into the river Tamar, the bound of the whole country.[3]
Trematon Castle, one and a half miles south-east of the village, stands in a sentinel position overlooking Plymouth Sound and dates from soon after the Norman conquest. It is similar in style to Restormel, being a motte-and-bailey castle with a 12th-century keep. It was built on the ruins of an earlier Roman fort.[4]
There was previously a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Trematon.[1]
Present day
Trematon Hall, a country house set in 25 acres (100,000 m2), is now a conference centre. The village also has a pub called The Crooked Inn.[5]
See also
References
- 1 2 St Stephens-by-Saltash at genuki.org.uk
- ↑ http://opendomesday.org/place/SX3958/trematon/
- ↑ Cornwall and Devon from William Camden at visionofbritain.org.uk
- ↑ Trematon Castle at cornwall-calling.co.uk
- ↑ The Crooked Inn at crooked-inn.co.uk
External links
Media related to Trematon at Wikimedia Commons
- Trematon Castle at ecastles.co.uk
- Trematon map at multimap.com