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Sidney Heath
Sidney Heath wrote The Cornish Riviera, published in 1915. In his account of the Gannel, he used the name Crake for the strange cry associated with the estuary.
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Silvanus Trevail
Cornish architect and later hotel entrepreneur whose work also included schools and public buildings; designer is not automatically financier.
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Smugglers’ Den, Trebellan
The Smugglers’ Den at Trebellan occupies a former farmhouse near Cubert. Historic England dates the surviving building mainly to the early seventeenth century, with later additions.
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Southern Railway, historical company
The Southern Railway was formed in the railway grouping of 1923 and included the former London & South Western Railway. Its Cornwall network included the routes associated with Wadebridge and Padstow.
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St Agnes railway station
St Agnes station was a principal stop on the Chacewater–Perranporth–Newquay branch. The railway reached the district in 1903, linking it with the main line at Chacewater.
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St Agnes, Cornwall
St Agnes is a village and parish on Cornwall’s north coast, south-west of Perranporth. Its coastal scenery sits within a historic mining district, with old workings and harbour remains contributing to the landscape aroun
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St Ambrusca’s Chapel, Crantock
Documented lost chapel near St Carantoc, with its precise footprint unresolved.
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St Austell railway station
St Austell station opened in 1859 as part of the Cornwall Railway. It served a town whose surrounding district became closely associated with the china-clay industry.
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St Carantoc’s church and college, Crantock
The surviving church anchors the wider religious landscape; college, lost chapel and burial area remain distinct.
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St Columb Road station
St Columb Road station serves the inland settlement of that name on the Par–Newquay railway. It should not be confused with a station in St Columb Major itself.
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St Newlyn East
St Newlyn East is a village and parish inland south of Newquay. The parish includes Mitchell and smaller settlements such as Kestle Mill and Rejerrah: a reminder that the places on a modern road sign belong to a wider ru
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St Newlyn East Preaching Pit
The Preaching Pit at St Newlyn East is a terraced outdoor gathering place, formed in an old quarry and used for Methodist services. It is a historic auditorium, not a prehistoric stone circle or an established Druidic si
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St Newlyna’s Church, St Newlyn East
St Newlyna’s is the parish church at St Newlyn East, inland from Newquay. Its surviving fabric includes medieval work and later restoration, making the building itself a better guide to its architectural history than a s
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St Nighton’s Chapel, High Lanes
Lost chapel east of Cubert associated with a gathering of four neighbouring religious communities.
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St Piran
St Piran is one of Cornwall’s best-known saints, particularly associated with tin miners and with the dunes north of Perranporth. His feast day is 5 March, and the white cross on a black field that bears his name is now
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St Piran’s old church in the dunes
St Piran’s old parish church stands in the dunes north of Perranporth, a few hundred metres from the smaller Oratory. Its medieval fabric developed over several centuries, with a larger building serving the surrounding c
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St Piran’s Oratory
St Piran’s Oratory is the small early medieval religious site in the dunes north of Perranporth. It belongs to a cemetery and a long tradition of worship associated with St Piran. The surviving masonry includes later reb
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Subsea telecommunications cables
Physical cables beneath the sea carry international communications. Their capacity, landing points and connections on land matter as much as their number; damage to one cable does not automatically disconnect a country.
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The 1842 report: Cornish children describing mine work
Shared source context for John, Martha and Samuel, without three repetitive biographical popups.
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The Central Inn, Newquay
The Central occupies a prominent position in Newquay’s old centre, where the town’s streets meet. Its story reaches back before the large resort hotels and the passenger railway, when an inn served a smaller working comm