Millennium Path
Look out for the plaque on the wall at the bottom of the path as you walk down from the station. The path was made to commemorate the turn of the millennium (incidentally it mentions Geoff Ryall, son of E.E.W. Ryall and my father). As you continue down the hill you will pass the institute and the Methodist Church.
“Mr. John Jose of Mellingey was instrumental in building the institute in 1887 and his picture still hangs in the east Room. A contributor remembers Mr Jose and the fact that he kept llamas in fields at Mellingey so indicating his connection with South America. In 1947 the Institute which had lost by death the original trustees was reorganised and is now run as a reading and recreation room [it then became a butchers, a dentist, and is now flats].”
“Above the railway at Greenwith stands the old chapel now a dwelling house [since knocked down for houses]. This was possibly built sometime after 1841 as it does not appear on the tithe map of that date. In 1887 John Jose contributed largely to the building of a new chapel in the village and the old building was allowed to become derelict. The present edifice is a very elaborate structure and contain[ed] a very good organ by Heard of Truro, installed in 1899 at a cost of about £250.”
The Methodist Church fell into private hands in the mid 1990s and is now a Nursery School.
This cache contains a Cornish pathtag for the FTF.