Gunnislake

Gunnislake New Bridge, built in the early 16th century, was the lowest bridging point on the Tamar and one of the main routes of entry into Cornwall until the construction of the Tamar road bridge at Saltash in 1962.

The village which sprawls on the steep valley side owes its development more to the dramatic explosion of industrial and mining activity in the mid - nineteenth century, a period when the Tamar valley became the richest copper mining centre in Europe.

The name Gunnislake is a derivation of two words - 'gunnis' meaning an open mine-working, and 'lake' the Cornish term for water.

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