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Chiverton Wheal Rose / Trethellan Mine
Chiverton Wheal Rose, also called Trethellan Mine, was a lead working on the northern side of the Gannel at Newquay. It adds another industrial site to an estuary more readily associated with sand, birds and boats.
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Cligga Head mine
Tin and tungsten working near Perranporth that continued into the Second World War.
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Cloud computing
Computing resources supplied over a network when needed, including processing, storage and software. The cloud still runs on physical equipment; a service can depend on several providers and facilities.
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Cocks Viaduct
Cocks Viaduct carried the Chacewater–Newquay railway across the valley near Perranporth. Cornwall’s Historic Environment Record describes a structure 89 yards long.
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Cornwall main line
The main-line railway through Cornwall connects the county’s towns and branch routes with the wider rail network. The Cornwall Railway opened between Plymouth and Truro in 1859, forming a major part of that connection.
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Cornwall Minerals Railway
The later mineral railway, distinct from Treffry’s horse tramways and the unbuilt Holywell scheme.
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Cornwall Railway company
The Cornwall Railway company opened the railway between Plymouth and Truro in 1859. The route made the River Tamar crossing and the railway through central Cornwall part of a connected main-line journey.
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Crantock
Crantock is a village on Cornwall’s north coast, just across the Gannel estuary from Newquay. Its old centre stands inland of the dunes, around St Carantoc’s church; the beach opens onto the Atlantic beside the river mou
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Crantock Beach
Crantock Beach lies beside the mouth of the Gannel, below the village of Crantock. Its sands, dunes and rocky margins bring the estuary and the open Atlantic together.
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Cubert
Cubert is a village south-west of Newquay, inland from Holywell Bay. Its church spire is a useful landmark in a landscape where the coast is often hidden until the last part of the walk. The parish includes places such a
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Cubert Common
Cubert Common is the open grassland behind the coast between Holywell and Porth Joke. It is a different place from Cubert village: the shared name connects them, but following a village pin will not put you on the common
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Duchy Peru Mine
Duchy Peru was one of the workings along the Great Perran Iron Lode inland from Perranporth. Its recorded products included iron and zinc alongside other ores and mineral materials, with intermittent activity in the nine
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East Wheal Golden
East Wheal Golden was a small lead-and-silver working in the Holywell–Penhale mining district. It followed a lode east of the better-known Wheal Golden workings. A production return for 1861 records lead ore and silver,
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East Wheal Leisure
East Wheal Leisure was a copper mine east of Perranporth, separately recorded from the town’s Wheal Leisure. Output is recorded for 1833, 1851 and 1852.
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East Wheal Rose mine
The lead and silver mine near St Newlyn East that connects the Gannel, Lappa Valley and Treffry’s mineral railway.
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Ellenglaze Mine
Ellenglaze Mine was a small lead mine near Ellenglaze, between Cubert and Holywell Bay. Mine references record its abandonment in 1839, placing it in the working landscape before the later railway proposals.
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Ellenglaze — manor, mill evidence and mine
Orientation for the inland place behind Holywell, keeping separate features distinct.
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Fern Pit
Fern Pit is on the Newquay side of the Gannel estuary, opposite Crantock. The landing and crossing place connect the Pentire side of the river with a landscape where the tide determines when a short journey is possible.
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Fistral Beach
Fistral is the Atlantic-facing beach on the western side of Newquay, between Towan Head and Pentire Point East. Its exposure to ocean swell makes it one of the best-known places in British surfing. The Headland Hotel ove
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FORTRESS America
A US military-installation resilience initiative announced in 2026. Reporting describes a ninety-day self-sufficiency goal; that is an ambition, not evidence that every base can already operate independently for three mo