The question: see below!

'cheap cut'? in a pasty?? My wife, my mother, my grandmothers, my aunts, my cousins and myself ONLY used the best. It was traditional to give the man something solid for the day. In fact the 'puff pastry' would get a big frown, should be shortcrust.

I had an idea it was something to do with traction engines/steam rollers when they 'refuelled' near the Zelah turning.

It had that name well before 1870, including the woods themselves

A 'boxheater' was a lump that was heated in the fire of a Cornish Range to be placed red hot in the Box of a Flat/Box Iron (for ironing clothes and sheets), origins around 1830 or before. Rev Bannister in 1871 when attempting to define the placename Boxheater could not explain it. I would have imagined that the gentleman would have been aware of the device. Perhaps there was a small forge there that cast such blocks of iron?

Interesting, DDD and Treeve. I wonder if anyone knows. For fun, I tried to make sense of it as corrupted Cornish forms of something like 'Bos sita' = City dwelling, but i know it's not that. Zelah isn't that big!

here is a picture of an old Box Iron; the flat iron was heated on a stove top; my aunt had one, the idea was to put a red hot coal in the box, the handle was held with a 'white' cloth. It is all done now by a flick of a switch and a bit of elbow grease.

Those pasties look lush! Where can I buy these?

Those Pasties available in St Ives. I can personally vouch for them. (or at least others made before and after the picture, which has already appeared on site)

The Boxeater ....
It's a row of five or six ribs cut off the top of the fore ribs; the principle is to remove all the bones and to roll it, tying the whole. Slow roast. Sometimes call 'Oven Buster' because of it tendency to swell. An old name is 'Jacob's Ladder'

place name?
perhaps originally Bos gwedhen? House by the trees?
When new fangled irons came along, perhaps it was easier to say in 1780?

I have just written to Feock Council, asking if they knew or knew a man who may know, or be able to help.