About Us

The Community Assembly of London Apprentice is located where meetings take place for the Community Assembly of St Austell since early in the development of the Community Assemblies. It is now a place to meet for combined meetings with the Community Assembly of Roseland, Community Assembly of St Austell and the Community Assembly of London Apprentice. Behind the Kingswood Restaurant is a café and small shop and there are some really good woodland walks and walks that lead down to the coast. In 1833, a coal yard was constructed on the Pentewan Railway situated near the inn to supply coal to the tin mines at nearby Polgooth and the settlement may have arisen around this point. According to nineteenth-century census returns, most of the villagers were engaged in tin-mining, either in the stream-works of Wheal Virgin, close to London Apprentice, or in Polgooth. The Wheal Virgin works closed in 1874 and the Polgooth mine by 1900.