Name: | Worthyvale [Also: Slaughterbridge] | CISP No: | WVALE |
Place: | Slaughterbridge | Grid Ref: | SX 1092 8568 (GB) |
Parish: | Minster | Stones: | 1 |
County: | Cornwall (Kernow) , England | Saint(s): | none |
Site Type: | landscape setting |
Okasha/1993, 333, describes how the first recorded location of the stone was its use as part of a footbridge at Slaughterbridge. We do not know the original location.
Worthyvale manor is mentioned in the Domesday book as /Guerdevalan/ (Thomas/1994, 307) and is thought by Thomas to have been prime agricultural land.
Nearby, in the early 18th century, Lady Dowager Falmouth created a kind of hill with spiral walks to which the stone was removed as decoration (Macalister/1945, 447, and Okasha/1993, 333).