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Truro (/ ˈ t r ʊər oʊ / ⓘ; Cornish Standard Written Form: Truru) [2] is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England; it is the southernmost city in the United Kingdom, just under 232 miles (373 km) west-south-west of Charing Cross in London. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and a centre for administration, leisure and ...
Truro railyards at the junction of the CN & CB&CNSR lines, 2006. Truro is known as the Hub of Nova Scotia as it is located at the junction between the Canadian National Railway, running between Halifax and Montreal, and the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway, running between Truro and Port Hawkesbury.
Truro / ˈ t r ɜːr oʊ / is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro. Located slightly more than 100 miles (160 km) by road from Boston , it is a summer vacation community just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod , in an area known as the "Outer Cape". [ 1 ]
Truro was the first Anglican cathedral to be built on a new site in England since Salisbury Cathedral in 1220. It was built on the site of the 16th-century parish church of St Mary the Virgin , a building in the Perpendicular style with a spire 128 feet (39 m) tall. [ 3 ]
Name Address Coordinates Government recognition (CRHP №) Image C.B. Archibald House 86 Queen Street Truro NS : Nova Scotia (),Truro municipality () : Upload Photo: Peter McGregor Archibald House
The Diocese of Truro was established by Act of Parliament in 1876 under Queen Victoria. It was created by the division of the Diocese of Exeter in 1876 approximately along the Devon - Cornwall border (a few parishes of Devon west of the River Tamar were included in the new diocese).
The 70 miles (110 km) of the Cornwall Railway included 42 wooden viaducts, such as Carvedras viaduct in Truro. The Cornwall Railway company constructed a railway line between Plymouth and Truro in the United Kingdom, opening in 1859, and extended it to Falmouth in 1863. The topography of Cornwall is such that the route, which is generally east ...
Truro: D. Bradford Barton, 1964 (a reissue of "Parochial History of Cornwall", the author's principal contribution to The Cornish Church Guide published in 1925) ISBN 0-85153-052-4 The Ecclesiastical History of Western Cornwall . 2 vols. Truro: Royal Institution of Cornwall; D. Bradford Barton, 1962