Come-to-Good
Near Truro you'll find the small settlement of Come-to-Good. Here you'll find a farm, seven residential houses and this Quaker meeting house. Built in 1710 of cob, a mixture of sand, clay, water, straw and earth and it's thatched roof. It has been in constant use from that 1710 to present day. It was one of the first meeting houses built in Cornwall as a venue where Quakers could gather as they were not permitted to meet in public places. In 2010 it was renovated at a cost of £175,000.00 (281953.00 USD) 10 to 20 people still worship here each Sunday and the building attracts 3000 visitors a year. There has been much discussion about the origins of how the settlement came by it's name. For some time it was thought it derived from the supposed Cornish Cwm-ty-coit meaning "the coombe by the dwelling in the wood". However recent research discovered that the name "Come to Good" is not found as a name for the area until fairly late in the seventeenth century, after the arrival of the meeting place and much more likely to be an ironical reference to Friends and the Meeting.
Come-to-Good, Cornwall.
Come-to-Good
Near Truro you'll find the small settlement of Come-to-Good. Here you'll find a farm, seven residential houses and this Quaker meeting house. Built in 1710 of cob, a mixture of sand, clay, water, straw and earth and it's thatched roof. It has been in constant use from that 1710 to present day. It was one of the first meeting houses built in Cornwall as a venue where Quakers could gather as they were not permitted to meet in public places. In 2010 it was renovated at a cost of £175,000.00 (281953.00 USD) 10 to 20 people still worship here each Sunday and the building attracts 3000 visitors a year. There has been much discussion about the origins of how the settlement came by it's name. For some time it was thought it derived from the supposed Cornish Cwm-ty-coit meaning "the coombe by the dwelling in the wood". However recent research discovered that the name "Come to Good" is not found as a name for the area until fairly late in the seventeenth century, after the arrival of the meeting place and much more likely to be an ironical reference to Friends and the Meeting.
Come-to-Good, Cornwall.