Truro Through Time

In 1698 Celia Fiennes an intrepid traveler and relative of the Boscawen family rode into Truro on horseback and immediately loved it although she described it in her diary as ''a ruinated and disregarded place, formerly a great tradeing town''. In 1724 the author Daniel Defoe found Truro ''sadly declining as a port'' and doubted whether it would ever recover so the fortunes of the town changed jus...