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Fowey
Fowey is a harbour town on Cornwall’s south coast, on the west side of the River Fowey opposite Polruan. The sheltered estuary explains much of its history: ships could use a natural haven here that open Atlantic beaches
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Fowey Consols
Fowey Consols was a major copper-mining undertaking near the southern end of Luxulyan Valley, inland from Par. “Consols” indicates a consolidation of workings: it was not a town and certainly not a reference to Fowey’s h
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Frederick William Baker — Lewinnick Cove House
Frederick William Baker was the lawyer and financier behind Lewinnick Cove House, the cliffside Newquay home better known as Baker’s Folly.
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Good Fortune Mine, Perranporth
Good Fortune was a mine in the Perran St George–Cligga district south-west of Perranporth. Its copper-bearing workings belong to the industrial landscape behind the headland, separately identified from Great St George an
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Goonbell Halt
Goonbell Halt was a passenger stop on the Chacewater–Perranporth–Newquay branch in the St Agnes district. It was separate from St Agnes station and from the nearby Wheal Liberty viaduct.
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Goonhavern
Goonhavern is a village inland from Perranporth. Its surrounding countryside contains overlapping traces of mining, mineral transport and the later passenger railway.
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Goonhavern Halt
Goonhavern Halt served the village on the Chacewater–Perranporth–Newquay railway. It belonged to the section that continued east from Perranporth towards Shepherds and Newquay.
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Grampound Road railway station
Grampound Road was an intermediate station on the Cornwall main line between St Austell and Truro. Its name became part of the settlement that grew around the railway.
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Gravel Hill mine
Coastal iron workings whose ore travelled overland to the Gannel.
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Gravel Hill mineral tramway
The Gravel Hill tramway carried the mineral railway story towards the coast north of Holywell Bay. It connected the Gravel Hill workings with the Treamble railway system, crossing the landscape around Trebellan.
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Great Perran Iron Lode
The iron-bearing geological deposit worked by several mines between Gravel Hill and the inland Perran district.
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Great Retallack Mine
Great Retallack was a mine on the Great Perran Iron Lode, east of Treamble. The research records iron, zinc, lead and silver output, with production returns spanning 1858–80.
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Great St George mine, Perranporth
An older Perranporth mining site whose names and operating phases need careful separation.
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Great Western Beach
Great Western Beach is the Newquay beach below the hotels and railway district on the town’s eastern seafront. It is central to the story of the Hotel Victoria’s unusual route down through the cliff.
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Great Western Hotel, Newquay
Newquay’s Great Western Hotel stands close to the railway station and above the beach that shares its name. It opened in April 1879, shortly after passenger trains began reaching the town in 1876. Silvanus Trevail design
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Great Western Railway, historical company
The historical Great Western Railway was one of the major companies operating Cornwall’s railways before nationalisation in 1948. Its network brought together main-line travel, mineral traffic and branches serving towns
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Halwyn Mine / Halwyn Pit
Halwyn was a small nineteenth-century opencast iron working near the Mount and Treamble group of mines. Its place in the Great Perran Iron Lode landscape is easier to understand from the map than from a surviving engine
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Harry Carter, smuggling captain
A Prussia Cove captain whose autobiography describes the business, violence and personal cost of smuggling.
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Hay Close enclosure
Hay Close is an archaeological enclosure near St Newlyn East. Its circular appearance initially suggested a possible Neolithic henge, but excavation established a different story: an Iron Age enclosure with activity in t
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Hazel Chapman — Newquay wartime memoir
Hazel Chapman was a Bergman Österberg student whose later memoir records the everyday experience of training in wartime Newquay, including Baker’s Folly pool.