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The theatre was the brainchild of Rowena Cade, who moved to Cornwall after the First World War and built a house for herself and her mother on land at Minack Point for £100. [3] Her sister was the feminist dystopian author Katharine Burdekin , who lived with them from the 1920s. [ 4 ]
Newlyn is located in western Cornwall, just south of Penzance. It lies along the B3315 road which connects it to Land's End. Paul and Mousehole lie to the south. The Ordnance Survey, the United Kingdom's mapping agency, bases all elevations including mapped contour lines and spot heights on the mean sea level at Newlyn (see Ordnance Datum). [24]
St Mawes (Cornish: Lannvowsedh) is a village on the end of the Roseland Peninsula, in the eastern side of Falmouth harbour, on the south coast of Cornwall, England.The village, formerly two separate hamlets, lies on the east bank of the Carrick Roads, a large waterway created after the Ice Age from an ancient valley which flooded as the melt waters caused the sea level to rise.
Cornwall (/ ˈ k ɔːr n w ɔː l,-w əl /; [5] Cornish: Kernow; Cornish pronunciation: [ˈkɛrnɔʊ]; or [6]) is a ceremonial county in South West England. [7] It is recognised by Cornish and Celtic political groups as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people.
St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, [1] meaning "hoar rock in woodland") [2] is a tidal island in Mount's Bay near Penzance, Cornwall, England (United Kingdom).The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a causeway of granite setts, passable (as is the beach) between mid-tide and low water.
Cornwall 50°06′16″N 5°23′09″W / 50.1045°N 5.3858°W / 50.1045; - Praa Sands ( Cornish : Poll an Wragh = Salt Pool of the Wrasse), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (formerly Prah Sands ) commonly pronounced pray or prah, (correctly Prah) is a white-sand beach and coastal village in civil parish of Breage , in Cornwall , England.
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St Michael Penkivel (Cornish: Pennkevyl), [1] sometimes spelt St Michael Penkevil, is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the valley of the River Fal about three miles (5 km) southeast of Truro. [2] The population at the 2021 census was 287. [3]