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Phoenix Mine, Penhale
Phoenix was a small lead-and-silver mine in the Penhale landscape south of Holywell Bay. It worked the eastern lode system associated with East Wheal Golden, rather than being another name for the larger Penhale Mine.
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Piper’s Hole, Crantock
Piper’s Hole is a tidal cleft on the western side of Crantock Beach, best known for a woman’s face, a horse and a verse carved into the rock. The National Trust attributes the woman to Joseph Prater. A more detailed loca
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Place, Fowey
Place is the substantial house above Fowey’s parish church associated with the Treffry family. It is a family home with a long architectural history, including Tudor work and later nineteenth-century alterations. From th
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Ponts Mill
Ponts Mill is a small settlement at the lower end of Luxulyan Valley, near Par. Its name now arrives quietly in walks and railway histories, but this was an important junction between different kinds of work and transpor
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Porth / St Columb Porth shipyard
Porth had a nineteenth-century shipbuilding trade. The 1879 Ordnance Survey labels a Shipwright Yard on the inlet’s northern shore; the earlier launch site is not precisely fixed.
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Porth Beach Holiday Park — origins and earlier land use
Porth Beach Holiday Park dates its beginnings to 1976. Its own anniversary histories describe expansion from a few caravans and successive generations of the Case family managing the site.
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Porth Joke / Poly Joke
Porth Joke, also commonly called Poly Joke, is the small cove between the West Pentire and Kelsey landscapes, south-west of Newquay. It is reached through the surrounding countryside rather than along a resort seafront.
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Porth, Newquay
Porth is a coastal neighbourhood of Newquay, centred on the sandy inlet beside Trevelgue Head, with a history of maritime work as well as holidays.
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Quintrell Downs station
Quintrell Downs is the first named intermediate station inland from Newquay on the route towards Par.
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Reen Wollas Mine
Reen Wollas is a recorded historic mine locality near Lower Reen, east of Perranporth. Old shafts in the surrounding fields form part of the area’s industrial record.
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Remote code execution (RCE)
A security flaw can sometimes let an attacker make another computer run code remotely. An RCE advisory describes a capability under particular conditions; it does not show that every installation has been attacked.
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Richard Treffry, Methodist preacher
Richard Treffry was the Methodist preacher whose diary is quoted in a modern local-history account of Newquay’s Old Inn, later the Central. The account places him at an inn run by Mr Carter in August 1802 and records a l
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Robert Hunt, scientist and folklore collector
Robert Hunt combined interests that we now tend to file on different shelves. He worked with mining and mineral statistics, wrote about photography, and collected the stories people told about Cornwall. His Popular Roman
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Roche railway station
Roche station is a stopping place on the railway between Par and Newquay, in Cornwall’s china-clay country. It belongs to a route shaped by mineral traffic before passenger travel became part of its business.
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Rogationtide
Prayers and processions associated with the land and the growing season.
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Seine fishing and the tuck net
Two netting stages behind the Cornish pilchard fishery.
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Seven Bridges, near Cubert
Seven Bridges is a named walking landscape south of Cubert, associated with a succession of small crossings over wet ground. It forms part of the local connections between the village, Holywell and the country around Tre
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Shepherds Junction
Shepherds Junction connected the Treamble mineral railway with the route later used by the Chacewater–Newquay passenger branch. It was close to Shepherds station, but the junction and passenger platform were distinct rai
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Shepherds railway station
Shepherds was a rural station on the Chacewater–Newquay branch, close to the junction for the Treamble mineral line. Its importance came partly from that railway connection rather than a large surrounding town.
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Shipbuilding at Tregunnel
Tregunnel, beside the Gannel at Newquay, belongs to the estuary’s nineteenth-century shipbuilding story. The Clemens family built vessels in this working landscape, connecting a small Cornish river with trade beyond the