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Alfred Watkins and ley theory
Alfred Watkins developed an early-twentieth-century theory that alignments of old places and landmarks preserved ancient trackways and sight-lines. His ideas helped establish the modern discussion of ley lines.
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Arthur H. Norway
Arthur H. Norway wrote Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall, published in 1897. His account of the Gannel describes the tidal plank crossing and names the warning spirit called the Crake.
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Arthur L. Salmon
Arthur L. Salmon wrote The Cornwall Coast, published in 1910. His coastal descriptions combine landscape, travel and local traditions, making the book a useful record of how Cornwall was presented to readers at that time
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Arthur Quiller-Couch on Cornish tourism
Arthur Quiller-Couch’s Cornish Magazine was debating how to develop Cornwall as a holiday resort by 1898. He later described the difficulty of making that choice while mining declined and Cornish people were leaving to f
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Atlantic Hotel, Newquay
The Atlantic Hotel in Newquay appears in the railway research as a destination for the North Cornwall Coach Company’s Pioneer service in 1895. The coach connected the Newquay area with railway arrivals at Wadebridge.
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Atlantic Road settlement
Iron Age and Romano-British occupation exposed beside Newquay’s golf links by pipeline work in 1998.
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Baker’s Folly / Lewinnick Cove House
Lewinnick Cove House is the cliffside home known as Baker’s Folly, on Newquay’s Pentire Headland. Its private sea pool later served an evacuated teaching college.
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Baker’s Folly in The Avenue — 1916 literary source
Nina Townshend’s 1916 school-magazine essay shows that the name Baker’s Folly was already in print. Its dream sequence must not be mistaken for biography.
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Bank of England cyber and operational resilience stress tests
The Bank of England uses hypothetical disruption exercises to examine how financial services respond and recover. CORST26 explores cloud-provider and third-party disruption; the scenario is a test, not a forecast of a ba
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Barrowfields prehistoric cemetery, Newquay
The Barrowfields lie by Narrowcliff above Lusty Glaze, towards Porth. Three prehistoric burial mounds survive from a larger cemetery. The name therefore remembers a funerary landscape, rather than just a stretch of open
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Bergman Österberg Physical Training College — Newquay evacuation
The Bergman Österberg college trained women in physical education. Evacuated from Dartford to Newquay in 1940, it continued teaching in improvised accommodation.
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Blackwater and Chacewater junctions
The Blackwater–Chacewater junction area connected the Perranporth branch with Cornwall’s main-line railway. Railway records distinguish the junctions and their mileage points from Chacewater station itself.
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Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway
The Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway opened in 1834, making it an early part of Cornwall’s railway history. It linked the Camel-valley port at Wadebridge with inland destinations, carrying goods as well as passengers.
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Bodmin General station
Bodmin General was the town station reached by the branch from Bodmin Road in 1887. The railway was extended to Boscarne Junction in 1888, linking the main-line branch with the older Bodmin & Wadebridge system.
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Bodmin main-line branch
The branch from Bodmin Road, now Bodmin Parkway, to Bodmin General opened in 1887. In 1888 it was extended to Boscarne Junction, where it connected with the older Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway.
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Bodmin Road / Bodmin Parkway station
Bodmin Road station opened on the Cornwall Railway in 1859. The name Bodmin Parkway belongs to the same station, situated outside Bodmin itself.
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Boscarne Junction
Boscarne Junction was where the Great Western branch from Bodmin General met the older Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway. The connection opened in 1888, one year after the main-line branch had reached Bodmin General.
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Bugle station
Bugle station belongs to the Par–Newquay railway in Cornwall’s china-clay district. Its place in the network connects the passenger route with the industrial landscape through which it developed.
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Chacewater
Chacewater is a village in a valley west of Truro, in one of Cornwall’s historic mining districts. Nearby workings and the settlements around them gave it a life before it became a name on a railway map.
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Chacewater railway station
Chacewater station linked the Cornwall main line with the branch towards St Agnes, Perranporth and Newquay. It was a railway interchange, distinct from the village whose name it carried.