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North Wheal Leisure / Wheal Catherine
North Wheal Leisure was a mine in the Perranporth district, also associated with the name Wheal Catherine. Its documentary trail includes mineral statistics, share listings and Duchy accounts from the 1840s and 1850s.
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Padstow
Padstow is a harbour town on the Camel estuary in north Cornwall, north-east of Newquay. Its position connects the sheltered river with the Atlantic, giving it a history of fishing, shipping and trade as well as holidays
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Padstow railway station
Padstow station was the terminus of the railway extension from Wadebridge opened in 1899. Trains approached beside the Camel estuary and crossed Little Petherick Creek before reaching the town.
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Padstow–Tregurrian railway proposal
In 1903 the Board of Trade confirmed a proposed railway from Padstow to Tregurrian, the village above Watergate Bay. The scheme later needed an extension of time in 1905 and did not deliver the expected coastal rail serv
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Par
Par is a village on Cornwall’s south coast, east of St Austell. Its beach, railway connections and industrial harbour sit close together, but each has a different story. The village entry is the starting point; Par Harbo
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Par Harbour
Par Harbour is the industrial port beside Par on Cornwall’s south coast. Joseph Thomas Treffry developed it as part of a wider arrangement for moving mineral traffic between inland workings and the sea. James Meadows Ren
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Par railway station
Par station opened with the Cornwall Railway in 1859. Its importance grew through the connection between the main line and the railway to Newquay.
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Par–Newquay railway
The railway between Par and Newquay crosses Cornwall’s china-clay country through the Luxulyan district. It developed from mineral railways, with the Cornwall Minerals Railway opening its connected freight system in 1874
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Penhale Camp
Penhale Camp was established in 1939 on the coast near Holywell Bay as an emergency anti-aircraft training camp. The army arrived in a landscape that already held farms, mine workings and much older archaeological remain
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Penhale Dunes and Perran Sands
Penhale Dunes form the extensive sand-dune landscape north of Perranporth. They are much more than a sandy gap between the beach and the road: grassland, scrub and shifting sand support wildlife, while archaeology record
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Penhale Mine / Penhale and Lomax
Penhale Mine lay between Holywell Bay and the northern end of Perran Sands. It was working by 1777, with later reopenings and periods of inactivity. Lead and its associated silver were important products; records also in
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Penhale Mine count house
The count house is a surviving administrative building associated with Penhale Mine, in the landscape between Holywell Bay and Perran Sands. Historic England dates it to the early nineteenth century and records its later
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Penpol Creek and quay
Penpol is a creek and historic landing place on the southern side of the Gannel estuary, near Crantock. Its quay and the river crossing belong to different parts of the same working landscape: one helped move goods, the
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Perran Consols
Perran Consols was a mining undertaking in the dune country north of Perranporth. Its workings included Wheal Vlow and Wheal Widden, with Wheal Creeg also identified in the Geological Survey account. Tin was the principa
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Perran Railway, Pier and Harbour proposal
The unbuilt Victorian scheme for a railway and harbour at Holywell Bay.
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Perran United Mine
Perran United was a nineteenth-century mining undertaking in the Perranporth district. The Northern Mine Research Society’s directory records documentary references from the 1850s and 1870.
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Perranporth
Perranporth is a seaside town on Cornwall’s north coast, south of Newquay. Its broad sandy beach and Atlantic surf are what many visitors come for today. It belongs to the parish of Perranzabuloe, whose name and history
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Perranporth Beach Halt
Perranporth Beach Halt was a later stopping place on the Chacewater–Newquay branch, opened in 1931. It brought the railway closer to the beach and resort than the original Perranporth station.
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Perranporth railway station
Perranporth station opened with the first section of the Chacewater branch in 1903. For two years it was the end of the passenger line, before the route continued to Newquay in 1905.
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Peru Mine, Perranzabuloe
Peru Mine was a lead working in the Perranzabuloe district, north of Duchy Peru. Despite their similar names, the two are recorded as separate mine localities.