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The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough (/ ˈ tʃ ʌ f / CHUF; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its eight subspecies breed on mountains and coastal cliffs from the western coasts of Ireland and Britain east through southern Europe and North Africa to Central ...
In 1938, the L.L. LeVeque Company purchased the Olentangy Park property to build Olentangy Village. [19] The Haenlein Brothers sold some of the park's rides and equipment while moving the Grand Carousel, the remaining Ferris wheel , the Airplane ride (the Circle Swing), [ 20 ] the Dodgem , the Rifle Range, and others to their Zoo Park [ 21 ] in ...
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St Agnes (Cornish mainland), St Agnes (Isles of Scilly), St Allen, St Ann's Chapel, St Anthony-in-Meneage, St Anthony in Roseland, St Austell, St Blazey, St Blazey Gate, St Breock, St Breward, St Buryan, St Cleer, St Clement, St Clether, St Columb Major, St Columb Minor, St Columb Road, St Day, St Dennis, St Dominick, St Endellion, St Enoder ...
The chough (Cornish: palores) is also used as a symbol of Cornwall. In Cornish poetry the chough is used to symbolise the spirit of Cornwall. [clarification needed] Also there is a Cornish belief that King Arthur lives in the form of a chough. "Chough" was also used as a nickname for Cornish people. [clarification needed]
Cornish chough (P. p. pyrrhocorax) flying in west Cornwall A kestrel in flight near the cliffs at TintagelThe birds of the coast at Tintagel are well worth observing: in 1935 an anonymous writer mentions Willapark as the scene of spectacular flocks of seabirds (eight species); inland he describes the crows (including the Cornish chough and the raven) and falcons which frequent the district.
Praze an Beeble (Cornish: Pras an Bibel), [1] sometimes shortened to Praze, is a village in Cornwall, Great Britain. It lies between the nearby towns of Camborne (2.5 miles) and Helston (7 miles) in the civil parish of Crowan. The name Praze an Beeble was first recorded in 1697 and means the meadow of the pipe/conduit. [2]
Troon (Cornish: Trewoon) [1] is a village in Cornwall, UK, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.5 kilometres) southeast of Camborne. The village lies at around 560 feet (170 m) above sea level. [2] [3] An electoral ward named Troon and Beacon covers the area north from Troon to the outskirts of Camborne. The population at the 2011 census was 5,410. [4] New ...