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The origins of the seal sanctuary go back to 1958 when the founder, Ken Jones, discovered a baby seal washed up on the beach near his home at St Agnes. This was the first of many rescues. By 1975, the work had outgrown the single pool at St Agnes and a new site was found at Gweek. The Gweek site slowly grew, and today has five pools and a ...
The name Gweek is first recorded as Gwyk in 1358 and is derived from the Cornish word gwig, meaning "forest village", cognate with the Welsh gwig and Old Breton guic. [3] Gweek village has a pub, the Black Swan, [4] and a combined shop and post office. The village is also home to the Cornish Seal Sanctuary.
Several nature sites exist on the Lizard Peninsula; Predannack nature reserve, Mullion Island, Goonhilly Downs, and the Cornish Seal Sanctuary at Gweek. An area of the Lizard covering 16.62 square kilometres (6.42 sq mi) is designated a national nature reserve because of its coastal grasslands and heaths and inland heaths. [20]
These businesses now dominate the head of the river where once coal and timber were landed. On the opposite bank is the Cornish Seal Sanctuary, where injured seals are nursed back to health before being released to the freedom of the Atlantic Ocean. The traditional 'heavy' industries have been replaced by 'lighter' businesses catering for the ...
While on a visit to the Sea Life Trust Cornish Seal Sanctuary in Gweek, Cornwall (in the UK), the wiener dog became fascinated by what his owner was looking at in the aquarium tank. When she ...
Bishop's Quay is a hamlet in south-west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.It is in the civil parish of St. Martin-in-Meneage.It is situated on the south bank of the tidal Mawgan Creek at its confluence with the Helford River five miles (8 km) east of Helston. [1]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Cornish Cyder Farm; Cornish Seal Sanctuary; Cot Valley; ... Monkey Sanctuary; N.
Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats in Maidstone, Kent. Cornish Seal Sanctuary, Gweek, Cornwall; Ferne Animal Sanctuary, Somerset, Wambrook, near Chard, originally run by Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton; Hillside Animal Sanctuary, Frettenham, Norwich; Lower Moss Wood Educational Nature Reserve and Wildlife Hospital, Knutsford, Cheshire