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Crowan ( (village) or Pluw Grewen (parish)) Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel . Cornish Language Partnership. is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about three-and-a-half miles (6 km) south of Camborne.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End A former mining parish, all of the mines had shut by 1880.
The River Hayle rises near Crowan and flows through the village and the Helston Railway to Helston passed nearby.
In some 18th-century documents there is evidence that the parish was called Uni-Crowan and this may be connected to the fact that the parish was in two parts, one in Penwith and one in Kerrier hundred. The Kerrier portion was once a separate chapelry and may have had St Uny as its patron saint.Doble, G. H. (1960) The Saints of Cornwall; part 1. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 97-99 Crowan feast was observed on the nearest Sunday to the eve of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 10
The six church bells were cast in 1729 by Rudhall of Gloucester and restored in 1881. The inscriptions are,
There are numerous monuments to members of the St Aubyn family. Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, is buried at Crowan; his monument was carved by William Behnes.9780685279342, Abbey Library. ISBN 9780685279342 The three St Aubyn brasses (c. 1420, c. 1490 & c. 1550) are now at Clowance.Dunkin, E. (1882) Monumental Brasses. London, SpottiswoodePevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed., revised by E. Radcliffe. Penguin Books
Clowance House was the seat of the St Aubyns (from 1671 they were the St Aubyn Baronets, but the legitimate line ended with Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet in 1839).W. P. Courtney, ‘St Aubyn, Sir John, fifth baronet (1758–1839)’, rev. Hallie Rubenhold, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 accessed 30 March 2015 Three years before his death the wings of the house burnt down on 10 November 1836. The resort of Clowance estate offers swimming, tennis, gym and fitness facilities, a bar and an Italian restaurant.
Prehistoric remains: Crowan parish has many remains of prehistoric times including barrows and stone crosses. Ancient Crowan There are four Cornish crosses in the parish; one cross was found at Praze-an-Beeble and now stands by the parish church; three are at Clowance. The original location of the Praze cross is unknown. Two of the Clowance crosses have a cross on one side and a crude crucifixus figure on the other; one formerly stood at Bold Gate on Clowance Down and the other at Binnerton Cross. The third cross is curiously ornamented on the front and back of the shaft; it formerly stood at the northwest corner of Nine Maidens' Down.Langdon, A. G. (1896) Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 129–33 & 328–30 Manor Mill is an ancient mill used for grinding corn until 1946. It then became a pottery and later still a weaving mill.Todd, A. C. & Laws, Peter (1972) The Industrial Archaeology of Cornwall. Newton Abbot: David & Charles; p. 222
Joe Williams, originally from Crowan, emigrated to mine in Australia in the mid-1800s. He won the Cornish wrestling championship of Australia, gaining the championship belt and a large gold cup. Helston retrospect, West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 6 May 1954, p3.
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