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Mawla, Cornwall
Mawla is a village south of Porthtowan in Cornwall, England, UK. The earliest record of Mawla is in 960 AD; the meaning of the name is "pigs' place". It comprises a cluster of cottages, Mawla Farm, Green Lane Farm, Forge Farm and a Methodist church. Mawla has no shops or pubs. Geography Mawla is situated approximately two miles from Mount Hawke in the parish of Redruth and St Agnes Parish on the north coast of Cornwall. Once secluded, it is now visible from surrounding areas, owing to the loss of most of the trees from Dutch elm disease. History Mawla is a little hamlet, once known as 'Mawle'. By 1824 the main villages, aside from St Agnes, in the St Agnes Parish were Mithian Mithian ( kw, Mydhyan) is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about six miles (9.6 km) northeast of Redruth and a mile east of St Agnes. Mithian is in the administrative civil parish of St Agnes (which was in the former C ..., Stenclose ( Stencoose), and Malow (Mawla).Samuel Drew. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, with the River Tamar forming the border between them. Cornwall forms the westernmost part of the South West Peninsula of the island of Great Britain. The southwesternmost point is Land's End and the southernmost Lizard Point. Cornwall has a population of and an area of . The county has been administered since 2009 by the unitary authority, Cornwall Council. The ceremonial county of Cornwall also includes the Isles of Scilly, which are administered separately. The administrative centre of Cornwall is Truro, its only city. Cornwall was formerly a Brythonic kingdom and subsequently a royal duchy. It is the cultural and ethnic origin of the Cornish dias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redruth
Redruth ( , kw, Resrudh) is a town and civil parishes in Cornwall, civil parish in Cornwall, England. The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census. In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also includes Carn Brea, Redruth, Carn Brea, Illogan and several satellite villages, stood at 55,400 making it the largest conurbation in Cornwall. Redruth lies approximately at the junction of the Great Britain road numbering scheme, A393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road (now the A30 road, A30), and is approximately west of Truro, east of St Ives, Cornwall, St Ives, north east of Penzance, Cornwall, Penzance and north west of Falmouth, Cornwall, Falmouth. Camborne and Redruth together form the largest urban area in Cornwall and before local government reorganisation were an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district. Toponymy The name Redruth derives from its older Cornish name, ''Rhy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornwall Council
Cornwall Council ( kw, Konsel Kernow) is the unitary authority for Cornwall in the United Kingdom, not including the Isles of Scilly, which has its own unitary council. The council, and its predecessor Cornwall County Council, has a tradition of large groups of independent councillors, having been controlled by independents in the 1970s and 1980s. Since the 2021 elections, it has been under the control of the Conservative Party. Cornwall Council provides a wide range of services to the approximately half a million people who live in Cornwall. In 2014 it had an annual budget of more than £1 billion and was the biggest employer in Cornwall with a staff of 12,429 salaried workers. It is responsible for services including: schools, social services, rubbish collection, roads, planning and more. History Establishment of the unitary authority On 5 December 2007, the Government confirmed that Cornwall was one of five councils that would move to unitary status. This was enacted by st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truro & Falmouth (UK Parliament Constituency)
Truro and Falmouth is a constituency An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger State (polity), state (a country, administrative region, ... that has been represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2019 by Cherilyn Mackrory, a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. The seat was held by Sarah Newton from 2010 to 2019. History The constituency was created for the 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 general election following a review of parliamentary representation in Cornwall by the Boundary Commission for England, Boundary Commission, which increased the number of seats in the county from five to six. It replaces parts of the former Truro and St Austell (UK Parliament constituency), Truro and St Austell and Falmout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porthtowan
Porthtowan ( kw, Porth Tewyn, meaning ''cove of sand dunes'') is a small village in Cornwall, England which is a popular summer tourist destination. Porthtowan is on Cornwall's north Atlantic coast about west of St Agnes, north of Redruth, west of Truro and southwest of Newquay in the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a World Heritage Site. Porthtowan is popular with surfers and industrial archaeologists; former mine stacks and engine houses dot the landscape. Geography Porthtowan lies along the Godrevy Head to St Agnes heritage coast, which is located on the north Cornwall coast of the Celtic Sea in the Atlantic Ocean. It lies between Godrevy Head (with the Godrevy Towans) and St Agnes Head, north of the village of St Agnes.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' ''St Agnes Herita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weatherhill, Craig
Craig Weatherhill (1950 or 1951 – 18 or 19 July 2020) was a Cornish antiquarian, novelist and writer on the history, archaeology, place names and mythology of Cornwall. Weatherhill attended school in Falmouth, where his parents ran a sports shop. He played football for a number of local clubs, including Mawnan, and played as goalkeeper for the county football team. Between 1972 and 1974, Weatherhill served with the RAF, training as a cartographer. He was discharged after a serious back injury. He worked as a planning officer, architectural designer and historic conservation expert in local government and private practice. Under the tutelage of historian P.A.S. Pool he conducted archaeological surveys of West Cornwall. Weatherhill was also a Conservation Officer at Penwith District Council. He contributed to the BBC's Radyo Kernow, in particular to the series ''The Tinners' Way'' and ''Beachcombers''. In 1981 Weatherhill was made a Bard of Gorsedh Kernow for services to Corn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Hawke
Mount Hawke is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately west-northwest of Truro, north-northeast of Redruth, and south of St Agnes. The village is in a former mining area in the administrative civil parish of St Agnes. It has a school, Mount Hawke Community Primary School, a post office and various shops. The settlements bordering Mount Hawke are Banns (northwest) and Menagissey (south); Porthtowan is further away westward. The village is represented on Cornwall Council by the electoral division of Mount Hawke and Portreath. The population as of the 2011 census was 4,401. Churches Mount Hawke ecclesiastical parish was created in 1847 from part of the parish of Perranzabuloe and a smaller part of the parish of Illogan. Before this date, Mount Hawke was enumerated under St Agnes. The parish has been in the Hundred of Powder and the Truro Registration District since its creation. It is in the rural deanery of Powder and the archdeaconry of Cornwal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithian
Mithian ( kw, Mydhyan) is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about six miles (9.6 km) northeast of Redruth and a mile east of St Agnes. Mithian is in the administrative civil parish of St Agnes (which was in the former Carrick District from 1974 to 2009). The population was 510 in the 2001 census. The village has a primary school, Mithian School, situated west of the village at Barkla Shop and a pub, The Miner's Arms, in the village centre.Place ID 26961 Information Britain. Retrieved April 2010.Miners Arms, Mithian Beer In The Evening. Retrieved April 2010. History By 1824 the ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stencoose
Stencoose is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in the parish of St Agnes. It is located north of Redruth, near the village of Mawla. History The Haweis family owned a forty or fifty acre estate in the village for many years. By 1824 the main villages, aside from St Agnes, in the St Agnes Parish were Mithian, Stenclose (Stencoose), and Malow (Mawla Mawlā ( ar, مَوْلَى, plural ''mawālī'' ()), is a polysemous Arabic word, whose meaning varied in different periods and contexts.A.J. Wensinck, Encyclopedia of Islam 2nd ed, Brill. "Mawlā", vol. 6, p. 874. Before the Islamic prophet ...).Samuel Drew. The History of Cornwall: From the Earlist Records and Traditions, to the Present Time'. W. Penaluna; 1824 ited 23 September 2012 p. 18. Stencoose underwent archaeological exploration in 1996. Mining Nearly a mile east of Stencoose is Wheal Concord, a tin mine. The Stencoose and Mawla United Mine was worked 1860–62. References Villages in Cornwal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
