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Helston (Standard Written Form: Hellys) [1] is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.It is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of Penzance and 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Falmouth. [2]
Helston, sometimes known as Helleston, [1] was a parliamentary borough centred on the small town of Helston in Cornwall.. Using the block vote system of election, it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until the 1832 general election.
Helston (UK Parliament constituency) Helston Athletic F.C. Helston Castle; Helston Community College; Helston Community Hospital; Helston Guildhall; Helston North (electoral division) Helston railway station; Helston RFC; Helston South (electoral division) Helston South and Meneage (electoral division) Helston Town Band
Helstone. Helstone (or Helston in Trigg) was in the Middle Ages one of the chief manors of the Hundred of Trigg and perhaps in Celtic times the seat of a chieftain. In the Domesday Book this manor was held by Earl Robert of Mortain: there were 2 hides, land for 15 ploughs; the lord had 4 ploughs & 18 serfs; 20 villagers & 18 smallholders had 8 ploughs; 10 acres (40,000 m 2) of woodland; 6 ...
Helston South and Meneage is an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom which returns one member to sit on Cornwall Council. It was created at the 2021 local elections , being created from the former divisions of Helston South , and St Keverne and Meneage .
Museum of Cornish Life (formerly Helston Museum) is a museum situated in the former market town of Helston, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located immediately behind Helston Guildhall . The building was originally designed as the town's Market House in 1837.
In 2021 Helston were promoted to the Premier Division of the Western League based on their results in the abandoned 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons. The 2022–23 season saw them win the league's Les Phillips Cup, beating Shepton Mallet 2–0 in the final, [ 4 ] and the Cornwall Senior Cup , in which they defeated Millbrook on penalties in the ...
The first municipal building in Helston was a market house which was erected in 1576. [4] In the 1830s, at the height of the prosperity of the local tin-mining industry, the borough leaders decided to demolish the old market hall and to replace it with two new structures: a guildhall, which would become the local courthouse, and, behind it, a new market hall, where local market trading would ...