Devoran


Devoran is a village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is southwest of Truro at. Formerly an ecclesiastical parish, Devoran is now in the civil parish of Feock.
The village is on the northeast bank of the Carnon River at its confluence with Restronguet Creek, a tidal creek which flows into Carrick Roads above Falmouth. Devoran is at the Normal Tidal Limit of the creek but until the 20th-century the tidal limit stretched much further up the valley than now.

Mining

Devoran played an important role in the tin and copper mining industry. It developed as a small port engaged in the export of mined minerals and the import of mining materials and coal. The Redruth and Chasewater Railway, an early industrial line which served the many mines a few miles to the north, terminated at the port. Today, this long-disused railway forms part of a coast-to-coast footpath and cycle route.

Church

The church of St John and St Petroc was built in 1855–56 and consists of a nave and chancel only. It was renovated in 1879. Thomas Lobb, Victorian botanist and plant hunter is buried in Devoran churchyard. The parish war memorial by H J Martin lists seventeen names "in grateful memory of the men of the parish of Devoran who fell in the Great War 1914–1919". A further section of eight names was added of Second World War casualties.