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Looe has been on the list of the top ten places in the UK to celebrate New Year, and ranked third on the list for 2007–08. Looe is regenerating itself, like many other ports, to serve as a small cargo port. On the high ground north of East and West Looe there are many modern houses and a recreational area called 'the Downs'.
It has nine "misshapen" arches, [11] of which seven span the river, one is a dry arch on the East Looe side, and one at the West Looe side forms a pedestrian passage. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] The roadway had an original uniform width of 18 ft 2 in (5.54 m), [ 4 ] but underwent a programme of widening in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary Superintendent Billy Causey answers questions for a member of the public at an event in the late 1980s. Looe Key is a 5.8-square-mile (4.4 sq nmi; 15.0 km 2 ) coral reef in the Florida Reef system named for the British Royal Navy warship HMS Looe , which was wrecked on it in 1744 when it was a sandy island.
South of Liskeard, the Looe Valley Line railway follows the course of the East Looe River to Looe. The railway is so close to the river that flooding is a common occurrence. [3] The lowest stretch of the rivers combine to form the tidal harbour and estuary of Looe. The combined length of the two rivers (including the tidal confluence) is 30.48 ...
The RNLI withdrew services from Looe in 1930 on the grounds that the motor lifeboats at Fowey and Plymouth could cover the area. [ 4 ] From 1992, the RNLI stationed a lifeboat at Looe for the summer season and three years later the Spirit of the ROAC was housed in a temporary lifeboat house, provided by the East Looe Town Trust.
About 1835 a section of road from Looe Mills to Highwood was constructed by the canal company. [19] Highwood is a little less than a mile (about 1 km) north of Looe Mills, on the Turnpike Road north-west of Moorswater. The new road gave access to Highwood from the canal, using the Turnpike Road from Moorswater to Looe Mills.
The Looe Valley Line is an 8 + 3 ⁄ 4-mile (14 km) community railway from Liskeard to Looe in Cornwall, England, that follows the valley of the East Looe River for much of its course. It is operated by Great Western Railway .
Banjo Pier, Looe A Banjo Pier is a pier in the shape of a banjo . The most notable example is probably the Banjo Pier in Looe , Cornwall , England ( 50°21′04″N 4°27′04″W / 50.3510°N 4.4512°W / 50.3510; -4.4512 ( Banjo Pier, Looe, Cornwall ) ), as it was the first and thus the prototype for many others around the