Ruthvoes ( kw, Rudhfos) is a village in mid
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 ...
, England, United Kingdom. It is in the parish of
St Columb Major, about two miles (3 km) south of St Columb Major town and east of
Newquay
Newquay ( ; kw, Tewynblustri) is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, in the south west of England. It is a civil parish, seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries, spaceport and a fishing port on the North Atlantic coast of ...
.
The village lies on the northwest edge of
Goss Moor
Goss Moor is a national nature reserve in Cornwall, England, south-west of Bodmin in the parishes of St Dennis, St Columb Major, Roche and St Enoder. It is the largest continuous mire complex in south-west Britain and consists of mainly pea ...
near the
A30 dual carriageway trunk road. The
Par to Newquay branch railway passes south of the settlement.
Ruthvoes is the location of the
holy well of
Saint Columba
Columba or Colmcille; gd, Calum Cille; gv, Colum Keeilley; non, Kolban or at least partly reinterpreted as (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is toda ...
the virgin and, according to legend, is where she was beheaded.
St Columba Way website
Retrieved May 2010
Notable people
Richard Bullock
Richard "Dick" Bullock (20 August 1847 –7 February 1920) was a Cornishman who once sang in a Methodist choir and later became a legendary figure of the Wild West Cowboy era. His quick-shooting deeds working on the Deadwood stage gained him th ...
, miner, stockbroker; guard on the Deadwood stagecoach; born at Ruthvoes
References
Villages in Cornwall
Holy wells in Cornwall
St Columb Major
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