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Ponsanooth (Cornish: Pons an Woodh, [1] meaning "bridge at the stream") [2] is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about four miles southeast of Redruth and two and a half miles northwest of Penryn on the A393 road Redruth to Falmouth road. In 2019 it had an estimated population of 1184. [3]
Baker's Pit Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in the parish of Ludgvan, west Cornwall managed by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT). The reserve is on the moorland of Noon Diggery and is south of the Castle-an-Dinas hillfort and Roger's Tower, a folly built within the hillfort.
These two local priests where quite possibly the last Catholic clergy in the area at the time of the Reformation. [ clarification needed ] [ citation needed ] North of the village is the extant remains of the Penponds incline, the original course of the first railway line in west Cornwall.
This is a list of calendars.Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories by cultural sphere or historical period; thus O'Neil (1976) distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions of the Indian subcontinent ...
West Cornwall, around Mount's Bay, was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean [14] During the first millennium BC trade became more organised, first with the Phoenicians , who settled Gades ( Cadiz ) around 1100 BC, and later with the Greeks , who had settled Massilia ( Marseille ) and Narbo ...
The 89-hectare (220-acre) SSSI, notified in 1979, is located mainly within Lanlivery civil parish, 2 miles (3.2 km) north-west of the town of Lostwithiel. The similarly named hamlet of Redmoor is directly east of the reserve. [1] [2] The nature reserve is owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust/Cornwall Trust for Nature. [3]
From March 2009 to December 2010, if you bought shares in companies when Carlos M. Gutierrez joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 89.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a 70.3 percent return from the S&P 500.
The cultural calendar of Cornwall is punctuated by numerous historic and community festivals and celebrations. In particular there are strong links between parishes and their patronal feast days (which are often days not directly linked to official church patronal celebrations).