Blue Anchor is a
hamlet
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in mid
Cornwall
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, England, United Kingdom. It is in the
civil parish
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of
St Enoder
St Enoder ( kw, Eglosenoder) is a civil parishes in England, civil parish and hamlet in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hamlet is situated five miles (8 km) southeast of Newquay. There is St Enoder (electoral division), an electoral ward bear ...
It is situated on the old course of the
A30 road (now re-routed south of the settlement as a
dual carriageway
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bypass) between the villages of
Fraddon
Fraddon is a village in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in the parish of St Enoder (where the 2011 census population was included). It is roughly midway between Newquay and St Austell and is south of the linked villages of St Columb Road ...
and
Penhale
Penhale ( kw, Pennhal) is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is about six miles (10 km) east-southeast of Newquay and ten miles (16 km) west-southwest of Bodmin.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin''
The ...
.
[Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' ]
The Blue Anchor Inn is alleged to have been the first stop the King's Messenger made on
his journey
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to announce the victory at the
Battle of Trafalgar
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in October 1805.
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External links
Hamlets in Cornwall
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