Beacon Inn, Beacon, Camborne, Cornwall

[hanes teulu]

https://cornishstory.com/2022/03/25/mapping-methodism-beacon-wesleyan-chapel/

[hanes teulu]

Several references to Richard Trevithick's first steam trip being to "Camborne Beacon"
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/richard-trevithicks-first-steam-carriage

[AlanBoyd]

I just found an item in The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, July 1996 which announces that someone has bought the Pendarves Arms, Beacon. Then an item in the same newspaper, a summary of a local football league from December 1996, refers to a team from Beacon Inn (formerly Pendarves Arms)

Thus it seems that the name was finally changed in 1996 and that the use of the name Beacon Inn in the 1863 newspaper item was something of an anomaly.

The 1911 census has Edwin Butler, 32, innkeeper at the Pendarves Arms, Beacon. His probate indicates that he was still the innkeeper at the Pendarves Arms when he died in March 1921. I haven't tracked down an entry from 1921

[MaidinEngland]

Thanks for the further contributions.  All very relevant.

I have been in touch with the Archive Office and have received great help and huge encouragement. There are lots of brewery records, trade directories etc as well. I understand that everything is filed under "Pendarves Arms".  One explanation for the name confusion may be that there was, and still is,  another inn with the same name not too far away at Tuckingmill.  There are some references to "the Pendarves Arms, the inn at Beacon", that likely just got shortened to Beacon Inn which over time, became the official name.

Great stuff on the Chapel and Trevithick as well!