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St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia, [1] meaning "St Ia's cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea .
St Ives Bay showing Godrevy Head and Godrevy Island (top right) Godrevy Lighthouse at sunset, April 2007 From the Knavocks to Godrevy Point Godrevy (Cornish: Godrevi, meaning small farms) (/ ɡ ə ˈ d r iː v i / gə-DREE-vee) [1] is an area on the eastern side of St Ives Bay, west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which faces the Atlantic Ocean.
St Ives Bay (Cornish: Roda Ia, meaning "Ia's anchorage") [1] is a bay on the Atlantic coast of north-west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the form of a shallow crescent, some 4 miles or 6 km across, between St Ives in the west and Godrevy Head in the east.
The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) was founded in Cornwall in 1994 following the deaths of two local fishermen whose boat sank within sight of a then recently closed coastguard station at Bass Point. Most of HM Coastguard's visual watch stations were closed following a period of rationalisation and modernisation.
St Ive and Pensilva, formerly St Ive is a civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.The parish has 4,246 residents and an area of 6,894 acres. [1]The parish is centred on the village of St Ive [2] and also contains Gang, Middlehill, Parkfield, Pensilva, St Ive Cross and Woolston.
Sketch map showing Carbis Bay within St Ives Bay Carbis Bay from St Ives. Carbis Bay (Cornish: Karrbons, meaning "causeway") is a seaside resort and village in Cornwall, England. It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of St Ives, on the western coast of St Ives Bay, on the Atlantic coast. [2] The South West Coast Path passes above the beach.
St Ives is an historic fishing port in west Cornwall and offers a sheltered harbour for ships in the open waters of the Western Approaches.On 24 December 1838 the schooner Rival was trying to enter the harbour in a gale but came to grief on one of its piers; despite lacking proper rescue boats and equipment five people were saved after much courage and effort by the people ashore.
The church is dedicated to Ia the Virgin, also known as Ives, supposedly an Irish holy woman of the 5th or 6th century. The current building dates to the reign of King Henry V of England. It became a Church of England parish church in 1826. It was built between 1410 and 1434 as a chapel of ease: St Ives being within the parish of Lelant. The ...
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