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Carlyon Bay (Cornish: Caryones, meaning 'forts') is a bay and a set of three beaches (Crinnis, Shorthorn and Polgaver) near St Austell on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the town centre.
Carlyon (Cornish: Karleghyon, [1] meaning fort of rock-slabs) is one of four new civil parishes created on 1 April 2009 for the St Austell area of south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Sketch map of the four civil parishes in the St Austell area created in 2009 - click to enlarge. The new parish is part coastal and part rural in character.
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 ]
After passing Carlyon Bay the path comes to the much busier china-clay exporting port of Par, where it goes inland of the dock site. After passing through the village the path regains the coast at Par Sands and links with the Saints' Way , a coast-to-coast path across Cornwall, at Polmear .
St Austell Bay (Cornish: Baya Ti war Dreth) [1] is a bay on Cornwall's south coast which is bounded to the east by Gribbin Head and to the west by Black Head. [ 2 ] Since 1 April 2009, it has also been the name of a civil parish , one of four new parishes created on for the St Austell area.
Mousehole, like Penzance, Newlyn and Paul, was attacked in the 1595 raid on Mount's Bay by Spaniard Carlos de Amésquita, the only surviving building being the 'Keigwin Arms', a local pub. Outside the Keigwin Arms (now a private residence) is a plaque with the wording "Squire Jenkyn Keigwin was killed here 23 July 1595 defending this house ...
The St Ives Bay Line is a 4.25 miles (6.84 km) railway line from St Erth to St Ives in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was opened in 1877, the last new 7 ft ( 2,134 mm ) broad gauge passenger railway to be constructed in the country.
More locomotives arrived from Longleat in 1976, with more carriages also being built at the time. In the 1970s a 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 184 mm ) gauge railway was laid around a smaller boating lake, whilst a third railway, of 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 260 mm ) gauge, running a further 1 ⁄ 2 mi (805 m) along the old trackbed was opened in May 1995.