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History - How Kingsand was named |
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The first recorded use of the name Kingsand appears in the Edgcumbe family property transaction in the 1550s. Carew writing in 1602,claims that the King in Kingsand was Henry VII. Carew visited the village in about 1580, and was told that at the end of the Wars of the Roses in about 1484 Henry, then the Earl of Richmond, sought to overthrow Richard III, and was supported by Richard Edgcumbe. Whilst cruising off the coast and conferring with his supporters, Henry anchored in Cawsand Bay and came ashore secretly for refreshments and to meet Richard Edgcumbe. When the King's men learned of Henry's whereabouts they set out from Plymouth to seize him, but Henry was warned and fled to his ship and thence back to France. After the battle of Bosworth in 1485 Henry became King. The inn, which he visited, became known as the King's Arms; the lane, which led down to the beach through the fish cellar, was called the King's Way, and the beach King's sand. The Kings Arms Inn was closed in 1910, but the house is still called Kingsway House and the lane immediately opposite, which converges with the coast path is the Kingsway. |
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