I was once corrected and advised by an elderly gentleman that this area is Tolcarne and not Newlyn, and that in his time as a boy they were considered by the locals as two seperate villages.
...The village as we know it today has evolved from a number of small hamlets. Tolcarne, to the north of the Newlyn river, mainly an industrial area until the late nineteenth century, was part of the parish of Madron until 1848, when the ecclesiastical parish of Newlyn St.Peter was formed...
...Street-an-Nowan lies to the south of the river and includes the area known as the Fragdan. This Street-an-Nowan is believed to derive from the Cornish Stret an oghen, street of the oxen, or ox-way, and Fragdan has the same meaning from forth oghen, ox road. Newlyn town on the cliff at the top of the hill evolved as a fishing community, its houses clustered around the medieval quay. As the village grew and linked these three areas it also absorbed farming communities including Trewarveneth, Chywoone and Gwavas. The name Newlyn is used here to denote a sheltered anchorage. The first recorded use of the name was in 1278 and it refers to the deep-water anchorage between Newlyn and Mousehole known as Gwavas lake, sheltered from prevailing west and south-west winds.
From Newlyn - A Brief History by Margaret Perry.
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