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The tramway was developed around 1900 by the castle's owner – Lord St Levan – to haul supplies ranging from building materials to groceries up to the castle and dustbins downhill. A notable traffic was Lord St Levan's regalia for the Coronation in 1953. It has never operated a passenger service, though one was contemplated in the late 1930s ...
St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, [1] meaning "hoar rock in woodland") [2] is a tidal island in Mount's Bay near Penzance, Cornwall, England (United Kingdom). The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a causeway of granite setts , passable (as is the beach) between mid-tide and low water.
Mount St Michael, Cornwall is an 1830 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. [1] Stanfield, a former sailor , specialised in marine paintings . [ 2 ] This view of St Michael's Mount in stormy weather was a breakthrough for him.
On 4 February 1534 John Militon and his son William obtained a grant from the Abbess of Syon Monastery (dissolved in 1539) of a 30-year farm of Saint Michael's Mount, on condition of maintaining an arch-priest and two other priests. The Militons are mentioned frequently in this connection in the "Minister's Accounts of Cornwall". [7]
Panorama of Castle Dore, Cornwall Promontory forts or cliff top forts were also common in the Iron Age and examples of these are at Trevelgue near Newquay , Maen Castle near Sennen , St Michael's at Rame Head , Dodman Point (near Gorran Haven ), Treryn Dinas (site of Logan Rock ), Trereen Dinas ( Gurnard's Head ) and The Rumps (near St Minver ).
Cornwall’s winning margins have been 16, 43, 22, 40, 37, 7, 50, 28, 40 and 39 (there was one forfeit win). Class C title game: Arbogast, McGuinness help O'Neill win Section 9 title in rebuilding ...
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St Michael's Way has been signposted and waymarked in both directions using a stylistic shell based on the Council of Europe's sign for pilgrim routes. The directional arrows are coloured yellow for footpaths, blue for bridleways and red for byways; Cornwall Council has chosen to use black arrows on public roads. [4]