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Whitemoor, Cornwall
Whitemoor is a village in St Stephen-in-Brannel civil parish in mid Cornwall, England. It is northeast of Nanpean. Whitemoor Community Primary School Whitemoor Community Primary School is a small village primary school, situated between St Dennis, Cornwall, St Dennis and Nanpean in the china clay, Clay Area of Cornwall. The school has since changed status to an Academy. Whitemoor is also home to the Dorothy Clay Pit. ''Mindat.org''. References External links Whitemoor Community Primary School Villages in Cornwall {{Restormel-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Austell And Newquay (UK Parliament Constituency)
St Austell and Newquay is a constituency in Cornwall represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Noah Law, a Labour MP. It is on the South West Peninsula of England, bordered by both the Celtic Sea to the northwest and English Channel to the southeast. History ;2010 election On its creation in 2010, the constituency had, based on complex forecasts involving its three constitutive seats, which factored in to different degrees the recent local election results, a widely varying notional Liberal Democrat majority (see results below). In analysis, one forecast suggested that St Austell and Newquay would prove to be a safe seat, whereas another suggested an extremely marginal seat. The majority achieved was lower than an average of the two forecasts, but by no means the most slender of majorities achieved in that election. In 2010, the Labour Party candidate polled in line with results of the recent decades in the forerunner seats, with 7.2% of the vot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Stephen-in-Brannel
St Stephen-in-Brannel (known locally as ''St Stephen's'' or ''St Stephen'') () is a civil parish and village in mid Cornwall, England. The village is four miles (6.5 km) west of St Austell on the southern edge of Cornwall's china clay district. The parish also contains the villages of Foxhole, Nanpean, Treviscoe and Whitemoor, and the hamlets of Carpalla, Coombe, Currian Vale, High Street, Hornick, Lanjeth, Stepaside and Terras. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 7,119. An electoral ward also exists, bearing the name ''St. Stephen''. The population at the same census was 4,772 only. Within the parish, at Tolgarrick mill, is one of only two uranium and radium mines in the United Kingdom: South Terras Mine. History In medieval times the parish lay within the royal manor of Brannel. St Dennis and St Michael Caerhays were daughter churches. From the 16th century the rectors resided at the latter, so it came to be regarded as the mother church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, Devon to the east, and the English Channel to the south. The largest urban area is the Redruth and Camborne conurbation. The county is predominantly rural, with an area of and population of 568,210. After the Redruth-Camborne conurbation, the largest settlements are Falmouth, Cornwall, Falmouth, Penzance, Newquay, St Austell, and Truro. For Local government in England, local government purposes most of Cornwall is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area, with the Isles of Scilly governed by a Council of the Isles of Scilly, unique local authority. The Cornish nationalism, Cornish nationalist movement disputes the constitutional status of Cornwall and seeks greater autonomy within the United Kingdom. Cornwall is the weste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular and religious administration in most of England and Wales. Civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. Civil parishes in their modern form came into being through the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which established elected parish councils to take on the secular functions of the parish vestry. A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely populated rural area with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, to a large town with a population in excess of 100,000. This scope is similar to that of municipalities in continental Europe, such as the communes of France. However, unlike their continental Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanpean
Nanpean (from , meaning "little valley") is a village in the civil parish of St Stephen-in-Brannel in Cornwall, United Kingdom. GENUKI website; St Stephen-in-Brannel; retrieved April 2010 The B roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, B3279 road runs through the village which is approximately north-west of in the heart of 'clay country', the mining area of mid-Cornwall. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Dennis, Cornwall
St Dennis () is a civil parishes in England, civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the B3279 between Newquay and St Austell. St Dennis had a population of 2,696 in the 2001 census, increasing to 2,810 at the 2011 census. An electoral ward also exists with a population at the same census of 4,560. A quarter of the male population is employed in the extraction of china clay. The village is famous for its church built on the site of an Iron Age hillfort. Other major buildings include the Methodist chapel and the Boscawen Hotel. History St Dennis originated as several smaller settlements: Hendra, Trelavour and Whitepit. The area's population grew rapidly after William Cookworthy discovered kaolinite, China Clay in the area. Geography The area is characterised by tips and clay pit, pits of china clay mining but St Dennis village itself is designated an 'island settlement' which prevents encroachment by the china clay industry. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Clay
Kaolinite ( ; also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition aluminium, Al2Silicon, Si2Oxygen, O5(hydroxide, OH)4. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedron, tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedron, octahedral sheet of Aluminium oxide, alumina (). Kaolinite is a soft, earthy, usually white, mineral (dioctahedral phyllosilicate clay), produced by the chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like feldspar. It has a low shrink–swell capacity and a low cation-exchange capacity (1–15 meq/100 g). Rocks that are rich in kaolinite, and halloysite, are known as kaolin () or china clay. In many parts of the world kaolin is colored pink-orange-red by iron oxide, giving it a distinct rust hue. Lower concentrations of iron oxide yield the white, yellow, or light orange colors of kaolin. Alternating lighter and darker layers are sometimes found, as at Providence Canyon State Park in Georgia, United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
