Nanpean

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Nanpean (Cornish: Little Valley) is a village in the civil parish of St Stephen-in-Brannel in Cornwall, United Kingdom[1]. It is situated on the B3279 road approximately four miles (6.5 km) northwest of St Austell in the heart of 'clay country', the china clay quarrying area of mid-Cornwall.
Nanpean church was built in 1879 dedicated to St George the Martyr. The building has an apsidal chancel, nave and south aisle, and a small bell turret. Nanpean also had a Wesleyan Methodist chapel.
The village has a school, Nanpean Community Primary School The original village school was built in 1898. It was refurbished and extended in 2002 and a further extension was added in 2004.
The Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway (a branch from the Cornish Main Line at Burngullow) opened as far as Nanpean in 1869 and was extended in 1874 to connect with the Par to Newquay branch at St Dennis Junction. The railway carried goods traffic only so there was never a station at Napean; the southern section remains open (2010) for china clay freight trains.
"Adapted from Wikipedia"