Rose () is a hamlet in mid-

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, UK. Rose is to the north-west of

Goonhavern Goonhavern () is a village in Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Perranzabuloe. It is located along the A3075 road, about two miles east of Perranporth. As well as a village store and post office, a garden centre and several campsites ...

and east of

Perranporth Perranporth () is a seaside resort town on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 2.1 miles east of the St Agnes Heritage Coastline, and around 7 miles south-west of Newquay. Perranporth and its long beach face the Atla ...

. Between Rose and Lower Rose is St Piran's Round (also known as

Perran Round Perran Round (also known as St Piran's Round) is an amphitheatre in the hamlet of Rose, Cornwall, Rose, midway between the villages of Goonhavern and Perranporth, Cornwall, UK. It is described as the best surviving example of a plen-an-gwary, a ...

) (), a circular earthwork which could have originally been an

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circular enclosure. It is considered to be the finest remaining example of a playing place or

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– a medieval amphitheatre used for performing the

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, or Cornish miracle plays and hosting

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tournaments. An article in an 1880 edition of ''

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'' newspaper reports that the present use of the Newlyn Amphitheatre (or pit) dates from 1852. Before this it was, said to be a quarry and it now has a small house inside the boundary, for use by the Methodists for tea-meetings.

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