Trevalga

Trevalga Cornish: Trevelgi
St Petroc's Church Ruins of Trevalga Mill
Trevalga
Trevalga shown within Cornwall
Population	71 (Civil Parish, 2011)
OS grid reference	SX082900
Civil parish	Trevalga
Shire county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BOSCASTLE
Postcode district	PL35
Dialling code	01840
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	North Cornwall
List of places UK England Cornwall 50°40′41″N 4°43′01″W / 50.678°N 4.717°W / 50.678; -4.717Coordinates: 50°40′41″N 4°43′01″W / 50.678°N 4.717°W / 50.678; -4.717

St Petroc's Church

Trevalga (Cornish: Trevelgi) is a coastal civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south-east by Forrabury and Minster parish and on the west by Tintagel parish.

The village of Trevalga lies 500 metres from the coast on the seaward side of the road from Boscastle to Tintagel. Unusually, the village is part of an estate owned by Marlborough College, a public school in Wiltshire. The estate has been held by the college in trust since 1961 under a bequest of the last Lord of Trevalga Manor, Gerald Curgenven (died 1959). This was to ensure its preservation from development and allow local families to remain there. However, in 2010, the college was told that it was breaking charity law by owning a hamlet, and thereafter placed the entire estate on the market (the legality of this is being disputed by the Trustees and Tenants of the estate and the sale has been suspended until this is resolved). This situation has caused understandable concern amongst the tenants, and other inhabitants, about the future of the village. Thereafter, protests and petitions were set up, using the social networking website Facebook in an attempt to save the hamlet. There was formerly a slate quarry and a silver lead mine in the parish.