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Luxulyan station
Luxulyan station is a stopping place on the inland railway between Par and Newquay. It is a separate railway location from Treffry Viaduct and the broader Luxulyan Valley industrial landscape.
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Luxulyan Valley
Luxulyan Valley is the steep, wooded valley of the River Par in mid-Cornwall. Its present atmosphere can conceal what a heavily engineered place it became: watercourses, tramway remains, inclines and the Treffry Viaduct
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Martyn & Lewarn (Martin & Lewarne) — Porth yard operators
Martyn and Lewarn are the shipbuilders named in the 1858 report of Little Jane’s launch at Porth. Their individual identities have not yet been established.
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Mermaid Inn and Mermaid Court Café — Porth site history
The Mermaid Inn stands beside Porth Beach. A photograph catalogued as Mermaid Court Café, around 1965, offers a glimpse of the earlier holiday shore; it does not establish the pub’s origins.
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Mitchell & Newlyn Halt
Mitchell & Newlyn Halt was a rural passenger stop on the Chacewater–Newquay branch, serving the area around Mitchell and St Newlyn East. The Newlyn in its name is St Newlyn East, not the fishing town near Penzance.
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Mithian Halt
Mithian Halt was a local passenger stop on the railway between Chacewater, Perranporth and Newquay. It belonged to the rural stretch north of St Agnes.
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Mount Hawke Halt
Mount Hawke Halt was a small passenger stopping place on the Chacewater–Newquay branch, between the Chacewater end of the route and St Agnes.
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Mount Mine / Perran Iron Mine
Mount Mine, also known as Perran Iron Mine, was one of the workings along the Great Perran Iron Lode inland from the north coast. Its story includes iron and associated lead and zinc, with nineteenth-century operations a
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Mount Wise mine / Lehenver
Newquay’s lead and silver workings on Mount Wise, above the town.
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National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is part of GCHQ. It provides cyber-security advice, helps respond to incidents and assesses threats; a future risk assessment is different from a report of an attack that has alrea
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New Wheal Leisure / Wheal Alfred
New Wheal Leisure was a mine beneath and around Bolingey, near Perranporth. Despite the name, it was not simply a new chapter at Wheal Leisure in the town: it had its own workings and documentary history.
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New Wheal Rose / Tolcarne and Rose Cliff Mine
New Wheal Rose was a lead mine in the Tolcarne–Rose Cliff area of Newquay, east of the town’s older harbour centre. Its name is easily confused with East Wheal Rose, the much better-known inland mine near St Newlyn East.
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Newquay
Newquay is a town on Cornwall’s north coast, now widely known for its beaches, surfing and holidays. Yet its history did not begin with someone arriving for a week by the sea.
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Newquay Consols / Fistral Mine
Lead workings in the Fistral landscape, with old shafts mapped before the golf course existed.
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Newquay Harbour
Newquay Harbour sits below the old town on Cornwall’s north coast. Its sheltered basin and quays belong to the working history behind the resort: fishing boats, cargo vessels and the handling of goods all helped shape th
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Newquay Harbour tramway and incline
Newquay’s harbour railway connected the higher ground around the town’s railway facilities with the quays below. Trucks moved through the town towards an incline and tunnel, where the steep change in level required a con
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Newquay railway station
Newquay station became a passenger terminus in 1876, when passenger services began over the Cornwall Minerals Railway. The earlier railway story was chiefly about moving minerals and supplies, including traffic between i
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Nicholas Roscarrock
Cornish Catholic collector whose writing preserves local saints’ traditions.
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North Cornwall Coach Company
The North Cornwall Coach Company operated the Pioneer horse coach, connecting railway arrivals at Wadebridge with the Newquay area. An advertisement dated 27 June 1895 is reproduced in a Railway & Canal Historical Societ
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North Retallack Mine
North Retallack was a lead working north of Treamble, within the Great Retallack sett. A sett was the area over which mineral rights were granted; an individual working could have its own name within it.