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St Austell is named after the 6th-century Cornish saint, St Austol, a disciple of St Mewan. In a Vatican manuscript there is a 10th-century list of Cornish parish saints. This includes Austoll, which means that the church and village existed at that time, shortly after 900. [5] St Austell is not mentioned in Domesday Book (1086).
The first market house in St Austell was an ancient building commissioned by the Mays family in 1638. [2] A second town hall was erected in 1791, [3] [4] [5] but by the early 1840s, it was considered too small. One of the last meetings in the old market hall was organised by Isaac Latimer of Truro, the agent for the Colonisation Commissioners ...
Cornwall. 50°19′53″N 4°45′28″W / 50.3314°N 4.7578°W / 50.3314; -4.7578. St Paul's Church. Harbour entrance and outer harbour. Charlestown (Cornish: Porth Meur, meaning great cove) is a village and port on the south coast of Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of St Austell Bay. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 ...
St Austell station is a Grade II listed [1] station which serves the town of St Austell, Cornwall, England. It is 286 miles 26 chains (286.32 mi; 460.8 km) from the zero point at London Paddington measured via Box and Plymouth Millbay. [2] The station is operated by Great Western Railway. The station is situated on the hillside just above the town.
The St Austell River ( Cornish: Dowr an Wynyk, meaning the little white river) properly known as the River Vinnick, but historically called The White River, is a 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long river located in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. 50.337°N 4.793°W. The river has also been known as the "red river" due to tin streaming and ...
UK. England. Cornwall. 50°20′10″N 4°43′55″W / 50.336112°N 4.731969°W / 50.336112; -4.731969. The beach in 2003. Partly demolished Cornwall Coliseum. Carlyon Bay (Cornish: Caryones, meaning forts) is a bay and a set of three beaches (Crinnis, Shorthorn and Polgaver) near St Austell on the south coast of Cornwall, England ...
History. The church was originally dedicated to St Austol, a Breton saint associated with St Meven, but is now dedicated to the Holy Trinity. By 1150 it had been appropriated to the Priory of Tywardreath by the Cardinhams, a situation which continued until 1535. There was originally a Norman church here, of which some remains may be seen.
England. Cornwall. 50°20′20″N 4°45′47″W / 50.339°N 4.763°W / 50.339; -4.763. Holmbush is a village in Cornwall, England that is situated in the suburban area of St Austell (where the population at the 2011 census was included). [1] It was a centre for tin and copper mining in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with ...