Our virtual walk on the BBC Cornwall website now takes us to a famous spot in Camborne's rich history.

Take a walk down Fore Street and into Tehidy Road. You are now heading down the area famously known as Camborne Hill.

Memorial plaque to Richard Trevethick

Once building was demolished 30-years-ago and the school relocated to the Cornwall College site at Pool.

Go back along Trevithick Lane, turn left to Fore Street, then bear Tehidy Road.

Towards the bottom of this road on the right is a memorial plaque commemorating the test run of Richard Trevithick's 1801 engine.
He invented a high pressure steam carriage known locally as the `Puffing Devil'. This was the world's first passenger-carrying road locomotive - a fore-runner of the motor car.

The test run was on Christmas Eve 1801, up 'Camborne Hill' - an event remembered in the well-known Cornish folk song:

The horses stood still,
the wheels went around,
Going up Camborne Hill coming down.

Near this spot was St Meriasek's well, in the past it was said to have waters that cured insanity.