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St Mawes (Cornish: Lannvowsedh) is a village on the end of the Roseland Peninsula, in the eastern side of Falmouth harbour, on the south coast of Cornwall, England.The village, formerly two separate hamlets, lies on the east bank of the Carrick Roads, a large waterway created after the Ice Age from an ancient valley which flooded as the melt waters caused the sea level to rise.
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St Mawes was a rotten borough in Cornwall, England.It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1562 to 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until it was abolished by the Great Reform Act in 1832.
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The new church to serve the town of St Mawes was opened by the Bishop of Truro Dr George Wilkinson on 5 December 1884. [3] It was built in the Early English style, and consists of a chancel, nave, porch and bell turret. It was built of local stone with facings of St Stephen’s granite.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Mawes may refer to: Saint Maudez, known in Cornwall as Mauwes, a Breton saint; St Mawes, a town in Cornwall ...
When new concerns about France emerged, an electrically operated minefield was laid across Carrick Roads in 1885, jointly controlled from Pendennis and St Mawes. [51] New 6- and 12-pounder (2.7 and 5.4 kg) quick-firing guns , supported by machine-guns for close defence, were assigned to the castle to deal with the emerging threat from enemy ...