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Mevagissey (/ ˌ m ɛ v ə ˈ ɡ ɪ z i /; Cornish: Lannvorek) is a village, fishing port and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. [1] The village is approximately five miles (8 km) south of St Austell. [2]
St Austell is named after the 6th-century Cornish saint, St Austol, a disciple of St Mewan. In a Vatican manuscript there is a 10th-century list of Cornish parish saints. This includes Austoll, which means that the church and village existed at that time, shortly after 900. [5] St Austell is not mentioned in Domesday Book (1086).
Mevagissey (Cornish: Lannvorek) [1] was an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom which returned one member to sit on Cornwall Council between 2009 and 2021. It was abolished at the 2021 local elections, being succeeded by Mevagissey and St Austell Bay, St Goran, Tregony and the Roseland, and St Mewan and Grampound.
St Austell and Newquay is a constituency [n 1] in Cornwall represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Noah Law, a Labour MP. [ n 2 ] It is on the South West Peninsula of England, bordered by both the Celtic Sea to the northwest and English Channel to the southeast.
Portillo wakes up in St Germans railway station and then visits English China Clays near St Austell. Travelling on to Mevagissey, he goes pilchard fishing, discovering that the pilchard was renamed as the Cornish sardine in the 1950s, and visits the Lost Gardens of Heligan on the Heligan estate.
Four of the six Cornish parliamentary seats are currently held by Labour, after having no seats in Cornwall between the 2005 and 2024 general elections.Two are held by the Liberal Democrats since the 2024 election, after previously winning all Cornish constituencies in 2005 then losing three to the Conservatives in 2010, and losing the remaining three to the Conservatives in 2015.
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They lie some 1.5 mi (2.4 km) to the north-west of, and about 250 ft (76 m) above, the fishing village of Mevagissey. The gardens are 6 mi (9.7 km) by road from the town and railway station of St Austell and are principally in the civil parish of St Ewe, although elements of the eastern gardens are in Mevagissey parish. [3]