Sophia Eggleston

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Sandplace ( Cornish : Tewesva ) is a small village in the parish of Morval , two miles north of
Looe in Cornwall , Great Britain .It is situated on the B3254 , the old Liskeard to Looe road
which joins the A387 to the South .The village is alongside the East Looe river and has been
served by Sandplace railway post , on the Looe valley Line since 1881 .== History ==
Sandplace gets its name from a wharf on the river banking concern where sea-sand was
stored , which together with slaked lime ( imported from Plymouth and burnt in nearby
kilns ) was used to improve the acid soils of the area .The plant food was transported north
out of the small town on the Liskeard and Looe Union duct which was completed in
1828 .With the exploitation of fuzz and tin ores in the Caradon area from 1836 onwards ,
and the hatchway of the Liskeard and Caradon railroad in 1844 , the epithelial duct was not
able-bodied to contend with the dealings and congestion meant that trade was being lost to
competing road via Calstock and St German .A railway line was opened for goods between
Moorswater and Looe on 27 December 1860 and the epithelial duct went into gradual
decline , finally closing in 1910 .Within the village is a coaching inn which was built in
around 1740 and is now the Polraen Country home Hotel .It was formerly owned by the
Morval Estate which sold it to St. Peter Bessell the Liberal MP for the Bodmin
constituency .Bessell fled abroad in 1970 to keep off debts from a number of unsuccessful
fellowship .== source ==