Mithian
A small village, population only around 500, Mithian lies just over a mile to the east of St. Agnes and is signed from the Chiverton Cross to St.. Agnes road soon after the Chiverton Inn. It is an attractive village with two notable buildings. The pub, the Miners Arms, has quite a history. Built in the 16th century, it has had a chequered career as courthouse, coroners court, smugglers lair and even apparently a house of ill-repute. The other notable building is Harmony Cot (just out of the village) which was the birthplace of John Opie, the famouir Cornish society portrait painter. A self-taught prodigy, by the age of twelve he had not only learned to draw but had apparently mastered Euclid and was teaching writing and arithmetic - and all this while apprenticed to a wheelwright. Harmony Cot is a private home and not open to the public. There is no Anglican church in the village and the former parish church of St. Peter is over two miles away at Chiverton Cross. Built in 1861, by architect William White, in 2006 it closed, faced with a repair bill of almost �1 million. I had expected to see it crumbling but, in December 2016, after a visit to St. Agnes, it appeared to be undergoing restoration. Oddly, the primary school is also out of the village, at Barkla Shop. The Miners Arms pub in Mithian (pictured left) is strongly recommended: young enthusiastic staff who happily prepared me a not-on-menu bacon sandwich.
The excellent Miners Arms at Mithian
Signed from B3277 Chiverton Cross to St. Agnes
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