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Treffry’s harbour of refuge
The unfinished second-harbour scheme beside Little Fistral and Towan Head.
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Treffry’s Newquay mineral tramway
Horse-worked transport connecting inland minerals with Newquay’s existing harbour.
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Tregunnel, schooner built in 1858
A photograph catalogued by Royal Museums Greenwich shows the 1858 schooner Tregunnel at moorings in Newquay Harbour during the 1890s. The museum does not name her builder, but her name carries the riverside place into th
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Tregurrian
Tregurrian is the village above Watergate Bay on the coast north of Newquay. It gives a specific geographical endpoint to the railway scheme authorised from Padstow in 1903.
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Treguth Inn, Holywell Bay
A seventeenth-century former farmhouse behind Holywell beach; the setting for Tim’s childhood passage memory.
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Trerew Mine / Trerew Wheal Rose
Trerew Mine was a nineteenth-century lead working east of Cubert. It is also recorded as Trerew Wheal Rose, another example of a recurring Cornish mine name that needs a place attached before it becomes useful.
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Trethellan Farm prehistoric settlement
A Bronze Age settlement and later Iron Age cemetery excavated in 1987 on the hillside above the Gannel.
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Trevelgue Head / Porth Island
Trevelgue Head, usually called Porth Island, is the headland beside Porth on the eastern side of Newquay. Its earthworks, rocky edges and narrow connection with the mainland make the place memorable before you know anyth
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Trevemper
Trevemper is a small settlement at the inland end of the Gannel estuary, south of Newquay. Its bridge made it an important crossing; the water beside it also served trade. Barges could bring cargo towards an inland road
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Trevemper Bridge
Trevemper Bridge crosses the Gannel at the inland end of its tidal estuary. The listed bridge belongs to the working landscape around Trevemper, where river traffic, quays and roads met.
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Trewerry & Trerice Halt
Trewerry & Trerice Halt was a passenger stopping place on the former Chacewater–Newquay route near the lower Lappa valley. Its name joined two local places served by the stop.
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Trewerry Viaduct
Trewerry Viaduct is a listed railway structure across the Lappa stream near Newquay. It belongs to the corridor linking the mineral landscape around East Wheal Rose with Trevemper and the town.
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Truro
Truro is Cornwall’s cathedral city, inland from the south coast at the head of waterways leading into the Fal estuary. Its role as a centre of trade, administration and services gives it a different history from the beac
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Truro railway station
Truro station is the main-line railway location serving the city. It belongs to the network created when the Cornwall Railway reached Truro from Plymouth in 1859, with later connections extending travel across the county
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UK household emergency preparedness
The UK’s Be Ready advice asks households that can do so to prepare for three days of disruption. It is practical preparation for interrupted services, not a forecast of when an emergency will happen.
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Wadebridge railway station
Wadebridge station belonged to the railway network centred on the Camel valley. The Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway opened in 1834, long before rail reached many of Cornwall’s coastal resorts.
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Wadebridge–Padstow railway
The railway from Wadebridge to Padstow opened in 1899, extending the rail network along the Camel estuary. Little Petherick Creek bridge was one of the major structures on the approach to Padstow.
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Wartime swimming at Baker’s Folly — college use and photographs
During the Second World War, the owners of Baker’s Folly lent their private sea pool to students of the evacuated Bergman Österberg college.
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Watergate Bay
Watergate Bay is the long, Atlantic-facing beach north of Newquay, below Tregurrian and the coast road towards Padstow. Its scale changes dramatically with the tide: the broad low-water beach is part of what makes the pl
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Watergate Bay Hotel
Watergate Bay Hotel stands above the bay north of Newquay. Its own history describes a hotel intended to welcome passengers from a railway that never arrived.