St Just in Penwith

I’ve traced my paternal ancestry to 1705 with discernable roots back to 1555. Some were farmers, some were miners. Many were both. They mined tin around St Just in Penwith, near Lands End in the far South West of Cornwall. The parish of St Just has been inhabited since pre-history (circa 1500 BCE, but the present structure of settlement dates from the establishment of the Churchtown by Saint Just, and his companion Saint Selus before the start of the Danish invasions (CE 428).
In Celtic times there was a monastic settlement – “Lafrowda” – whose lands approximated to the present township with chapelries at Cape Cornwall (St Helen’s) Boscaswell (St Euny) and Chapel Carn Brea (St Michael) and the mediaeval amphitheatre, the Plen an Gwary, which remain to this day.