Following William Mitchell’s death in 1857 his elder son James took on the tenancy at Lescliston.  
​James managed the farm until his death in 1869 when it was taken overby his nephew, Joseph Plummer, the son of his sister Ann. In 1889, as you can see from the document below the house and the land was sold with Joseph as a tenant, whoever purchased the property renewed Joseph’s tenancy enabling him and his family to live and farm there until at least 1911.  Lescliston’s full story has yet to be fully researched, I do know that during the the Second World War the area was the “domestic site of the radar station at RAF Trerew”  a facility that provided distance and direction information of  incoming enemy aircraft. By 1975 Lescliston’s total acreage, with regard to the farmhouse had been reduced dramatically, in just under 180 years, the 40 acres of land had been reduced to just over two acres, however this does not account for the acreage owned by neighbouring Rosecliston Campsite.
Lescliston’s name has changed, it has been Rosecliston since 1881. Ownership of the land has changed overtime too, the Hawkins and the Trevenen’s have long gone, as is the owner who sold the farm house and the land in 1889. It is not until the mid 1970’s that we get to see the Lescliston farmhouse in it contemporary setting.
This little piece of Cornwall, the ninety acres of land that I like to think as my piece of Cornwall, has long been out of the hands of my ancestors. In those years, it seems not to have changed all, the land looks much as it did when I was a young girl, with the holiday traffic, advertising boards, telephone poles, and taking that away the view is much the same as it was when William first ploughed the fields. 
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Today my ancestors home is owned by a family who have lived in it for over forty years, which is longer than James Mitchell, two years short of Joseph Plummer, but not as long as my 4x great grandfather William Mitchell. 


I would like to thank the present owners of Lescliston farm house for giving me permission to use and publish documents relating to the 
​purchase of their home in 1975