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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, United Kingdom. It is located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the town centre.
Carlyon (Cornish: Karleghyon, [1] meaning fort of rock-slabs) is one of four new civil parishes created on 1 April 2009 for the St Austell area of south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Sketch map of the four civil parishes in the St Austell area created in 2009 - click to enlarge. The new parish is part coastal and part rural in character.
Cornwall Coliseum was a sport and entertainment venue located at Carlyon Bay near St Austell, Cornwall, England. It hosted exhibitions, tennis tournaments and many concerts by leading musicians, but lost its importance with the opening of the Plymouth Pavilions in 1991.
After passing Carlyon Bay the path comes to the much busier china-clay exporting port of Par, where it goes inland of the dock site. After passing through the village the path regains the coast at Par Sands and links with the Saints' Way, a coast-to-coast path across Cornwall, at Polmear.
St Austell Golf Club is the only one that has a driving range as well as being the oldest of the three, being founded in 1911, [66] with Carlyon Bay being designed a year later in 1912. [67] There used to be a 9-hole course known as St Austell Bay but since 2014 this has been turned into a 36-hole football-golf course known as Cornwall Football ...
1987 also saw the first of the WOMAD weekenders in Carlyon Bay, Cornwall (The Coliseum) that ran annually until 1993. (The Durutti Column released recordings from their performance here in the late 1980s). There was a folk & blues WOMAD event in 1988 at the South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell.
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