Nanpean

50°22′05″N 4°52′08″W / 50.368°N 4.869°W / 50.368; -4.869

Nanpean church
The freight-only railway west of Nanpean in 2006

Nanpean (from Cornish: Nanspian, meaning "little valley")[1] is a village in the civil parish of St Stephen-in-Brannel in Cornwall, United Kingdom.[2] The B3279 road runs through the village which is approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of St Austell in the heart of 'clay country', the china clay mining area of mid-Cornwall.[3]

There are plans to build 150–300 homes as part of the St Austell and Clay Country Eco-town. The plan was given outline approval in July 2009.[4]

  1. ^ Craig Weatherhill (2017). The Place-Names of the Land's End Peninsula. Penwith Press. p. 127. ISBN 9781999777500.
  2. ^ [1] GENUKI website; St Stephen-in-Brannel; retrieved April 2010
  3. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5
  4. ^ "Drinnick and Nanpean". ECO-BOS. Retrieved 7 November 2010.[permanent dead link‍]