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St Mawes (Cornish: Lannvowsedh) is a village on the end of the Roseland Peninsula, in the eastern side of Falmouth harbour, on the south coast of Cornwall, England.The village, formerly two separate hamlets, lies on the east bank of the Carrick Roads, a large waterway created after the Ice Age from an ancient valley which flooded as the melt waters caused the sea level to rise.
St Mawes Castle (Cornish: Kastel Lannvowsedh) is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire , and defended the Carrick Roads waterway at the mouth of the River Fal .
St Mawes’ Church is a Grade II listed [1] parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Truro in St Mawes, Cornwall, England, UK. History.
St Mawes' Church was opened by the Bishop of Truro George Wilkinson on 5 December 1884. [4] Local opinion holds that St Mawes built the first landing at the harbour to help pilgrims access his Holy Well, which is preserved on nearby Grove Hill. [5] St Mawes holy well. Mawes then went to Brittany and tradition has it that he landed in Pleubian.
Riviera Lane, St Mawes (May 2004) Churchyard of St Just. The Roseland Peninsula, or just Roseland, (Cornish: Ros, meaning promontory) is a district of west Cornwall, England. Roseland is located in the south of the county and contains the town of St Mawes and villages such as St Just and Gerrans.
St Mawes was a rotten borough in Cornwall, England.It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1562 to 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until it was abolished by the Great Reform Act in 1832.
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Mawes may refer to: Saint Maudez, known in Cornwall as Mauwes, a Breton saint; St Mawes, a town in Cornwall, England; Mawes language, a Papuan language of Indonesia;