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Headland Hotel protests, 1897
Opposition to hotel construction above Fistral involved established local uses of the headland, including grazing and drying fishing nets.
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Henry Rowe, mason and contractor
Henry Rowe was a Cornish mason and contractor associated with the construction of the Treffry Viaduct. Born at Lanlivery in 1798, he belongs to the part of the industrial story that can vanish when every achievement is c
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Holywell Bay
Holywell Bay lies on Cornwall’s north coast, south-west of Newquay, in Cubert parish. Its broad beach, dunes and offshore Gull Rocks make it instantly recognisable. A stream reaches the sea through the valley behind it;
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Holywell Cave and its holy well
Holywell Cave lies in the cliff setting at Holywell Bay. Before the 2026 rockfall, accounts and photographs recorded freshwater pools with coloured mineral deposits forming a remarkable stepped interior.
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Hotel Victoria, Newquay
The Hotel Victoria is the grand late-Victorian hotel above Great Western Beach in Newquay. Opened in 1899, it was designed by architect John Sansom. Its cliff-top position offered the sea view that increasingly ambitious
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Huer’s Hut, Newquay
Huer’s Hut stands near Towan Head, above the sea west of Newquay harbour. A huer watched for pilchard shoals and signalled to fishing boats. Historic England dates the surviving structure probably to the late eighteenth
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Internet of Things (IoT)
Connected devices that sense or act on the physical world, such as controls and sensors. Their security depends on the particular product and its supporting software; a weakness in one device does not establish the same
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James Dyer, Crantock carver
James Dyer of Crantock is credited in the detailed local account of Piper’s Hole with adding the horse carving in the 1940s. The female figure is attributed separately to Joseph Prater and is thought to be earlier.
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James Meadows Rendel
James Meadows Rendel (1799–1856) was a civil engineer from Devon whose work ranged across harbours, bridges and ferries. He learned surveying and practical engineering before establishing a practice in Plymouth. He was n
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John Passmore Edwards
John Passmore Edwards (1823–1911) was a Cornish-born newspaper proprietor, politician and philanthropist. He grew up at Blackwater and made his career beyond Cornwall, using his wealth to support public buildings includi
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John Sansom, architect
John Sansom was the Liskeard-based architect of Newquay’s Hotel Victoria. Work began in 1897 and the hotel opened on 1 June 1899, during the town’s expansion as a seaside resort.
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Joseph Prater, Crantock cave artist
Joseph Prater is the artist to whom the National Trust attributes the female figure carved at Piper’s Hole on Crantock Beach. A more detailed local account describes a London artist visiting relatives in Crantock and pla
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Joseph Thomas Treffry
Plymouth-born industrialist with Fowey family roots whose mines, harbours and transport projects linked mid-Cornwall.
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Kelsey Head
Kelsey Head is the coastal headland between Holywell Bay and Porth Joke, west of Cubert. Its grassland and nearby dunes are important for wildlife, but the open appearance should not be mistaken for an absence of human h
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Langarrow: the lost-city legend
Langarrow is a legendary city said to have disappeared beneath the sand on Cornwall’s north coast. Versions place and describe it differently, linking it with the dune landscapes around Crantock and Perranporth.
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Lappa Valley
Lappa Valley is a family attraction near St Newlyn East, inland from Newquay, where a leisure railway runs through a landscape with a much less leisurely past. The modern attraction began in 1974; the route beneath it re
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Ley lines
Ley lines are proposed straight alignments connecting historic sites and landscape features.
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Little Jane (1858) — Porth-built vessel, official number 19761
Little Jane was built at Porth in 1858. Her official number, 19761, connects the launch story with later shipping and crew records.
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Little Petherick Creek railway bridge
The railway bridge across Little Petherick Creek formed part of the Wadebridge–Padstow extension opened in 1899. It carried the line over a tidal inlet of the Camel estuary on the approach to Padstow.
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London & South Western Railway
The London & South Western Railway was the company associated with the railway network reaching Wadebridge and Padstow from the east. Its Cornwall history is separate from the Great Western routes through Truro and Newqu