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St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia, [1] meaning "St Ia's cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea .
The first municipal building in St Ives was a medieval guildhall in Fore Street which was completed in 1490. [2] The local portreeve, John Payne, who held meetings in the old guildhall, was hanged as a rebel during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549. [2] In the 1820s, civic leaders decided to demolish the old guildhall and replace it with a ...
St Ive and Pensilva, formerly St Ive is a civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.The parish has 4,246 residents and an area of 6,894 acres. [1]The parish is centred on the village of St Ive [2] and also contains Gang, Middlehill, Parkfield, Pensilva, St Ive Cross and Woolston.
This is a list of towns and villages in the ceremonial county of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The ceremonial county includes the unitary authorities of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. In accordance with gazetteers, Cornish names are in the standard written form approved by the Maga signage panel. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The church is dedicated to Ia the Virgin, also known as Ives, supposedly an Irish holy woman of the 5th or 6th century. The current building dates to the reign of King Henry V of England. It became a Church of England parish church in 1826. It was built between 1410 and 1434 as a chapel of ease: St Ives being within the parish of Lelant. The ...
The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened its St Ives branch line on 1 June 1877 [6] and it leased the Tregenna Castle as a hotel the following year, [4] opening it on 5 August 1878. Early railway hotels had only been situated near large terminals or junctions, but this one was the first intended by the GWR as a holiday destination in its own right.
St Ives, Cornwall. St Ives railway station, in the town; St Ives (UK Parliament constituency), the parliamentary constituency that covers the far west of Cornwall; St Ives, Cambridgeshire, formerly in Huntingdonshire St Ives (Cambridgeshire) railway station, a former railway station in the town; St Ives, Dorset
1992: Pirate FM launched, the first commercial station in Cornwall. 1993: Tate St Ives art gallery in St Ives, opened; 1993: The joint Cornwall and Devon bid for Objective One funds fails because of Devon's high GDP.; [47] ITV Westcountry starts broadcasting. 1995: Wreck of the Maria Asumpta, a 19th-century sailing ship.