Camborne Close

Camborne Close is just off Truro Drive and close to Redruth Close, in Whitleigh, leaving us in no doubt as to inspiration for the names of these 1980s' Plymouth street names.

A busy market town in Cornwall, Camborne is three miles south-west of Redruth and only 12 miles from Truro. Famous for its School of Metalliferous Mining (now Camborne School of Mines), the town is amalgamated with Redruth as an urban district and has a population of about 20,000.

Outside Camborne library there is a statue to the town's most famous son, Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) whose pioneering work in deep-shaft mining revolutionised mining the world over.

As for the name Camborne, our earliest reference is from the late 12th century where we find mention of Balcherus de Camberon, the relevant element being a compound of 'camm' and 'bronn' - giving us a 'crooked round protuberance or hill'.