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The Clemens shipbuilding family
The Clemens family built schooners beside the Gannel during the nineteenth century. Research presented by historian Ben Dobson follows three generations of the family and their work in the estuary.
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The Gannel Crake
The Gannel Crake is a warning spirit in stories about the tidal crossing of the River Gannel. Arthur H. Norway named it in Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall in 1897, describing a strange cry that could send a tra
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The Gannel lead and silver smelter
The south-bank works near Crantock that received Newquay’s lead and silver ores.
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The Headland Hotel
The Headland stands above Fistral Beach in Newquay. Designed by the Cornish architect Silvanus Trevail, it opened in 1900 as a substantial hotel aimed at the growing market for seaside holidays.
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The holy well at Trevornick
The holy well in the Trevornick valley is an inland spring with a stone well house near Holywell Bay. It is a different site from the mineral pools inside the sea cave on the beach.
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The Old Albion, Crantock
The Old Albion is an inn in Crantock with its own tradition of an underground passage. The pub’s history describes a blocked opening beneath a fireplace as a smugglers’ hole.
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The Perranporth railway branch
The passenger route joining the Truro side of Cornwall’s main line to Newquay through St Agnes and Perranporth.
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The Pioneer coach connection
The Pioneer was a horse-coach connection between the Newquay and Wadebridge area, advertised in 1895 with railway connections. A Railway & Canal Historical Society study reproduces the advertisement.
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The Red Lion, Newquay
The Red Lion stands above Newquay Harbour, within the old working part of the town. Its harbour-side setting makes it a natural starting point for stories about sailors, cargoes and the coast—but a convincing setting is
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The reported Fistral–Red Lion passage, 1888
A blocked passage described in a transcribed Victorian letter; its exact course and function remain unidentified.
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The River Gannel and its estuary
The Gannel reaches the Atlantic between Newquay and Crantock. At low water, the estuary can look like a great expanse of sand with a river squeezed into it. At high water, it becomes a very different place. That changing
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Tolcarn Junction
Tolcarn Junction was part of the railway approaches to Newquay, where the former Perranporth route met the railway network on the town’s eastern side. The name is also encountered as Tolcarne.
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Towan Beach, Newquay
Towan Beach lies beside Newquay Harbour below the town. Its position made the connection through the harbour’s South Pier useful for moving between the harbour and beach at shore level.
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Towan Head
Towan Head is the promontory projecting north from the western side of Newquay. Fistral lies to its south-west, while Newquay Bay opens on the other side. It is a useful place to understand the town’s shape: harbour, ope
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Treamble corn mill
A recorded grain mill in the inland valleys near Holywell and the Perran district.
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Treamble Mine / Garden Quarry
Treamble Mine was an inland working on the Great Perran Iron Lode, north-east of Perranporth. Its mineral history includes iron as well as lead, silver and zinc, with nineteenth-century working and later attempts to reco
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Treamble mineral railway
The Treamble branch was a mineral railway running from the Shepherds area into the mining district inland from Perranporth and Holywell. It formed part of the Cornwall Minerals Railway system opened in 1874, connecting w
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Trebellan Mine
Trebellan Mine lay south-east of Cubert, with workings south of Trebellan farm. It followed a lead-bearing lode associated with silver and was known in the late eighteenth century as Wheal Mexico.
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Trebisken Mine / Trebisken Green
Trebisken was a mine in the Cubert district, south of the village. References associate it with lead and silver, followed by a later return for black tin in 1861. “Black tin” means a concentrate of tin-bearing ore, rathe
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Treffry Viaduct, Luxulyan Valley
A structure carrying both a horse tramway and water across the Luxulyan Valley.