Truro (; ) is a
cathedral city
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and
civil parish
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in
Cornwall
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, England; it is the southernmost city in the United Kingdom, just under west-south-west of
Charing Cross
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in
London
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. It is Cornwall's
county town
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, sole city and a centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its population was 18,766 in the
2011 census.
People of Truro are called Truronians. It grew as a trade centre through its port and as a
stannary
A stannary was an administrative division established under stannary law in the English counties of Cornwall and Devon to manage the collection of tin coinage, which was the duty payable on the metal tin smelted from cassiterite ore Mining in Co ...
town for
tin mining. It became mainland Britain's southernmost city in 1876, with the founding of the
Diocese of Truro
The Diocese of Truro (established 1876) is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury which covers Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and a small part of Devon. The bishop's seat is at Truro Cathedral.
Geography and history
The d ...
. It is home to
Cornwall Council
Cornwall Council ( ), known between 1889 and 2009 as Cornwall County Council (), is the local authority which governs the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall in South West England. Since 2009 it has been a Unitary authorities of England, unitary ...
, the
Royal Cornwall Museum,
Truro Cathedral, the
Hall for Cornwall and Cornwall's
Courts of Justice.
Toponymy
Truro's name may derive from the
Cornish ''tri-veru'' meaning "three rivers", but authorities such as the ''Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names'' have doubts about the "tru" meaning "three". An expert on Cornish place-names,
Oliver Padel
Oliver James Padel (born 31 October 1948 in St Pancras, London, England) is an English Medieval studies, medievalist and Toponymy, toponymist specializing in Welsh and Cornwall, Cornish studies. He is currently Honorary Research Fellow in the D ...
, in ''A Popular Dictionary of Cornish Place-names'', called the "three rivers" meaning "possible". Alternatively the name may come from ''
tre-uro'' or similar, i.e. settlement on the river ''Uro''.
History
A castle was built in the 12th century by
Richard de Luci, Chief Justice of England in the reign of
Henry II, who for court services was granted land in Cornwall, including the area round the confluence of the two rivers. The town grew below the castle and gained borough status from further economic activity. The castle has long disappeared.
Richard de Lucy fought in Cornwall under Count Alan of Brittany after leaving Falaise late in 1138. The small
adulterine castle at Truro, Cornwall, originally the parish of Kenwyn, later known as "Castellum de Guelon", was probably built by him in 1139–1140. He styled himself "Richard de Lucy, de Trivereu". The castle passed to
Reginald FitzRoy, an illegitimate son of Henry I, when he was invested by King Stephen as the first Earl of Cornwall. Reginald married Mabel FitzRichard, daughter of William FitzRichard, a major landholder in Cornwall. The -diameter castle was in ruins by 1270 and the motte was levelled in 1840. Today
Truro Crown Court stands on the site. In a charter of about 1170, Reginald FitzRoy confirmed to Truro's burgesses the privileges granted by Richard de Lucy. Richard held ten
knights' fees in Cornwall before 1135. At his death the county still accounted for a third of his considerable total holding.
By the early 14th century Truro was a major port, due to an inland location away from invaders, to prosperity from the fishing industry, and to a role as a
stannary
A stannary was an administrative division established under stannary law in the English counties of Cornwall and Devon to manage the collection of tin coinage, which was the duty payable on the metal tin smelted from cassiterite ore Mining in Co ...
town for assaying and stamping
tin and copper from Cornish mines. The
Black Death
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brought a trade
recession
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and an exodus that left the town in a very neglected state. Trade and prosperity gradually returned in the
Tudor period. Local government came in 1589 with a new charter of
Elizabeth I
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giving it an elected mayor and control over the port of
Falmouth.
During the
Civil War
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in the 17th century, Truro raised a sizeable force to fight for the king and a royalist mint was set up. Defeat by Parliamentary troops came after the
Battle of Naseby in 1646, when the victorious General Fairfax led his army south-west to relieve Taunton and capture the Royalist-held
West Country. The Royalist forces surrendered at Truro while leading Royalist commanders, including
Lord Hopton, the
Prince of Wales
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,
Sir Edward Hyde, and
Lord Capell, fled to Jersey from Falmouth.
Later in the century, Falmouth gained its own charter, giving rights to its harbour and starting a long rivalry with Truro. The dispute was settled in 1709 with control of the
River Fal
The River Fal () flows through Cornwall
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divided between them. The arms of Truro city are "Gules the base wavy of six Argent and Azure, thereon an ancient ship of three masts under sail, on each topmast a banner of St George, on the waves in base two fishes of the second."

Truro prospered in the 18th and 19th centuries through improved mining methods and higher prices for tin, and its consequent attraction to wealthy mine-owners. Elegant
Georgian and
Victorian townhouses of the period can be seen today in Lemon Street, named after the mining magnate and local
Member of Parliament Sir
William Lemon. Truro became the centre for county society, even dubbed "the London of Cornwall".
Through those prosperous times Truro remained a social centre. Among the many notables were
Richard Lander, the first European explorer to reach the mouth of the
River Niger in Africa and was awarded the first gold medal of the
Royal Geographical Society
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, and
Henry Martyn, who read mathematics at Cambridge, was ordained and became a missionary, translating the New Testament into Urdu and Persian. Others include
Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several Chemical element, e ...
, educated in Truro and the inventor of the
miner's safety lamp, and
Samuel Foote, an actor and playwright from Boscawen Street.
Truro's importance increased later in the 19th century with an iron-smelting works,
potteries, and
tanneries. From the 1860s, the
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a History of rail transport in Great Britain, British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, ...
provided a direct link to
London Paddington. The
Bishopric of Truro Act 1876 gave the town a bishop and later a cathedral. In 1877 it gained city status. The
New Bridge Street drill hall was completed in the late 19th century.
Truro was connected to the electric telegraph network in 1863 when the
Electric and International Telegraph Company opened stations at Truro, Redruth, Penzance, Camborne, Liskard and St Austell.
Geography

Truro lies in the centre of western Cornwall, about from the south coast, at the confluence of the rivers
Kenwyn and
Allen, which combine as the
Truro River – one of a series of waterways and
drowned valleys leading into the
River Fal
The River Fal () flows through Cornwall
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and then the large natural harbour of
Carrick Roads. The valleys form a steep bowl surrounding the city on the north, east and west, open to the Truro River in the south. This shape, along with high precipitation that swells the rivers and a
spring tide
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Tide tables ...
in the River Fal, were major factors in the 1988 floods that seriously damaged the city centre. Since then, flood defences have been constructed, including an emergency dam at New Mill on the River Kenwyn and a
tidal barrier on the Truro River.
The city is amidst several protected natural areas such as the historic parklands at
Pencalenick and areas of ornamental landscape such as
Trelissick Garden and
Tregothnan down the Truro River. An area south-east of the city, including Calenick Creek, has been included in the
Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Other protected zones include an
Area of Great Landscape Value comprising farmland and wooded valleys to the north east, and Daubuz Moors, a
local nature reserve by the River Allen, close to the city centre.
Truro has mainly grown and developed round the historic city centre in a nuclear fashion along the slopes of the bowl valley, except for fast
linear
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* linearity of a '' function'' (or '' mapping'');
* linearity of a '' polynomial''.
An example of a linear function is the function defined by f(x) ...
development along the
A390 to the west, towards
Threemilestone. As Truro grew, it encompassed other settlements as suburbs or districts, including
Kenwyn and Moresk to the north, Trelander to the east, Newham to the south, and Highertown, Treliske and Gloweth to the west.
Climate
The Truro area, like the rest of Cornwall, has an
oceanic climate
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. This means fewer extremes in temperature than elsewhere in England, marked by high rainfall, cool summers and mild winters with infrequent frosts.
Demography and economy

The Truro urban area, including parts of surrounding parishes, had a 2001 census population of 18,051. By 2011 the population, including Threemilestone, was 20,044. As of 2021, there are 23,047 residents. Its status as the county's prime destination for retail and leisure and administration is unusual in that it is only its fourth most populous settlement.
Indeed, population growth at 10.5% between 1971 and 1998 was slow compared with other Cornish towns and Cornwall. This trend changed significantly in the 21st century as Truro became one of the fastest growing cities in Cornwall, Truro experienced a year-on-year growth rate of 1.31% (Compared to 0.68% for Cornwall).
Truro is notable for having one of the youngest average residents in Cornwall (77.7% under 65).
2,773 people (13.4% of the residents) specified a Cornish only identity and 335 (1.6%) Cornish in combination with British - which is consistent the rest of Cornwall (14% and 1.6% respectively). 3,168 households (33.6% of residents) are experiencing deprivation, and 4,744 (20.5%) are retirees.
Major employers include the
Royal Cornwall Hospital,
Cornwall Council
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and
Truro College. There are about 22,000 jobs available in Truro, but only 9,500 economically active people living there, which make commuting a major factor in its traffic congestion. Average earnings are higher than elsewhere in Cornwall.
Culture
Attractions
Truro's dominant feature is its
Gothic-revival cathedral
A cathedral is a church (building), church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, Annual conferences within Methodism, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually s ...
, designed by architect
John Loughborough Pearson, rising above the city at its highest spire.
It was built in 1880–1910 on the site of St Mary's Church, consecrated over 600 years earlier.
Georgian architecture
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is well represented, with terraces and townhouses along Walsingham Place and Lemon Street often said to be "the finest examples of Georgian architecture west of the city of
Bath
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* Bathing, immersion in a fluid
** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body
** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe
* Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities
Plac ...
."
The main attraction to the region is a wide variety of shopping facilities. Truro has various
chain stores,
speciality shops and
markets that reflect its history as a
market town
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. The indoor
Pannier Market is open all year, with many stalls and small businesses. The city is also popular for catering and night life, with bars, clubs and restaurants. It houses the
Hall for Cornwall, a performing arts and entertainment venue.
The
Royal Cornwall Museum is the oldest and premier museum of
Cornish history and
culture
Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...
. Its collections cover fields such as
archaeology
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, art and geology. Among the exhibits is the so-called
Arthur's inscribed stone. Its parks and open spaces include Victoria Gardens, Boscawen Park and
Daubuz Moors.
Events

Lemon Quay is the year-round centre of most festivities in Truro.
In April, Truro prepares to partake in the
Britain in Bloom competition, with floral displays and hanging baskets dotted around the city throughout the summer. A continental market comes to Truro in the holiday-making season, featuring food and craft stalls from France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and elsewhere.
The Truro City Carnival, held every September over a weekend, includes various arts and music performances, children's activities, a
fireworks
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display, food and drinks fairs, a
circus
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and a parade. A
half-marathon, organised by Truro Running Club, also occurs in September; it runs from the city centre into the countryside towards Kea, returning to finish at Lemon Quay.

Truro's Christmas includes a Winter Festival with a ''City of Lights''
paper lantern parade. Local schools, colleges, and community and youth groups join in.
Sport
Truro temporarily hosted the
Cornish Pirates rugby union
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club in the 2005–2006 season, but it moved again for 2006–2007 to share the ground of
Camborne RFC. In April 2018, the construction of a
Stadium for Cornwall was discussed with
Cornwall Council
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, which had pledged £3 million for the £14.3 million project. It is planned for a site in
Threemilestone.
The town's remaining rugby union side,
Truro RFC, founded in 1885. It belongs to
Tribute Western Counties West and plays home games at St Clements Hill. It has hosted the
CRFU Cornwall Cup several times.
Truro City F.C., a
football
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team in the
National League, is the only Cornish club ever to reach this tier of the
English football league system. It achieved national recognition by winning the
FA Vase in 2007 against
A.F.C. Totton, in only the second final at the new
Wembley Stadium
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; it became the first Cornish side ever to win the trophy. Its home ground is the
Truro City Stadium in
Threemilestone.
Cornwall County Cricket Club plays some home fixtures at
Boscawen Park, which is also the home ground of Truro Cricket Club.
Truro Fencing Club is a national flagship, having won numerous national championships and supplied three fencers for Team GB at the
London 2012 Olympics.
Other sports amenities include a
leisure centre
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Typical facilit ...
, golf course and tennis courts.
Cornish wrestling
Truro has been a centre for
Cornish wrestling for centuries.
[Royal Cornwall Gazette, 11 June 1808.][Cornish Guardian, 20 June 1946.][The West Briton, 21 Sep 2017.] Before the formation of the Cornish Wrestling Association, the tournaments in Truro were often described as the ''Great County Wrestling Matches''
[Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser, 18 September 1886.] and, with winners getting money prizes or silver medals,
[Western Morning News 17 July 1884.][The Cornishman, 3 July 1890, p4.] silver cups
[West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 22 July 1886.][St. Austell Star, 30 May 1907.] and silver belts.
[Royal Cornwall Gazette, 5 October 1893.][Western Morning News, 17 September 1891.] A large number of venues have been used throughout Truro, including various inns which put on tournaments such as the White Hart Inn,
[The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser, 26 May 1832, p3.] Western Inn,
[Royal Cornwall Gazette, 7 July 1832.] Ship Inn
[West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 19 July 1844.] and Victoria Inn.
[Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser, 24 July 1858.]
In the 1970s,
Truro Cathedral School taught Cornish wrestling as part of its
physical education
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programme and was at this time the only school in Cornwall to do so.
John Lander was a noted wrestler during the late 1700s and early 1800s. He was landlord of the Fighting Cocks Inn in Truro and was the father of the famous explorers
John Lander and
Richard Lander.
[Hedgecoe, John: ''A L Rowse's Cornwall'', Weidenfeld and Nicolson (London), 1988, p74-75]
Media
Truro is the centre of Cornwall's local media. The county weeklies, the ''
Cornish Guardian'' and ''
The West Briton'', are based there; the latter provides a Truro and Mid-Cornwall edition. The city also holds the studios of
BBC Radio Cornwall. Regional television is provided by
BBC South West and
ITV West Country.
Customs
A
mummers play text ascribed until recently to
Mylor, Cornwall (quoted in studies of folk plays such as ''The Mummers Play'' by R. J. E. Tiddy – published posthumously in 1923 – and ''The English Folk-Play'' (1933) by E. K. Chambers), has now been shown by genealogical and other research to have originated in Truro about 1780.
The traditional
Nine Lessons and Carols at Christmas originated in Truro in 1880, when its bishop,
Edward White Benson, began to provide chances for evening singing of carols before Christmas Day, often on Christmas Eve.
Administration
Truro City Council forms its basic level of government, as one of 213
parish bodies in the county. Centred upstairs at the Municipal Buildings in Boscawen Street, it covers Truro's public library, parks and gardens,
tourist information centre, toilets, allotments and cemeteries. It also views planning issues and was involved in creating the Truro and Kenwyn Neighbourhood Plan in association with Cornwall Council. The city council has four
wards – Boscawen and Redannick, Moresk and Trehaverne, Tregolls, and Malabar – with 24 councillors elected for four-year terms.
It is affiliated to Truro Chamber of Commerce and other civic bodies.
The city council comes under the unitary
Cornwall Council
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, which is directly under central government.
Cornwall Council
Cornwall Council ( ), known between 1889 and 2009 as Cornwall County Council (), is the local authority which governs the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall in South West England. Since 2009 it has been a Unitary authorities of England, unitary ...
, a unitary authority, is based at
Lys Kernow, formerly County Hall, west of the city centre. It covers planning, infrastructure, development and environmental issues. Truro seats four members on it, one from each of its wards:
Truro Tregolls,
Truro Boscawen and Redannick,
Truro Moresk and Trehaverne and
Gloweth, Malabar and Shortlanesend.
Threemilestone and Chacewater,
conurbation
A conurbation is a region consisting of a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most ...
s of the city, also elect a member.
Truro's borough court, first granted in 1153, became a free borough in 1589, and a city in 1877, receiving
letters patent
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after the Anglican diocese was placed there in 1876. However, it forms the
eighth smallest UK city in population, city council area and
urban area
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.
Twinning
Truro is twinned with
*
Boppard, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
*
Morlaix
Morlaix (; , ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
History
The Battle of Morlaix, part of the Hundred Years' War, was fought near the town on 30 Septembe ...
, Brittany, France
Namesakes
Several towns outside Britain have taken Truro as their name:
*
Truro, Nova Scotia
Truro (Scottish Gaelic: ''Trùru'') is a town in central Nova Scotia, Canada. Truro is the shire town of Colchester County and is located on the south side of the Salmon River (Nova Scotia), Salmon River floodplain, close to the river's mouth ...
, Canada
*
Truro, Massachusetts, United States
*
Truro, Iowa, United States
*
Truro, South Australia, Australia
Transport
Roads
Truro is from the
A30 trunk road
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, to which it is linked by the A39 from Falmouth and
Penryn. Also passing through is the A390 between Redruth to the west and
Liskeard
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to the east, where it joins the
A38 for
Plymouth
Plymouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers River Plym, Plym and River Tamar, Tamar, about southwest of Exeter and ...
,
Exeter
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In Roman Britain, Exeter w ...
and the
M5 motorway
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.
Buses
The city and surroundings have extensive bus services, provided mainly by
First Kernow and
Transport for Cornwall. Most routes terminate at Truro bus station, near Lemon Quay. A permanent
Park and Ride
A park and ride, also known as incentive parking or a commuter lot, is a parking lot with public transport connections that allows commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, Rail transport, r ...
scheme, known as ''Park for Truro'', opened in August 2008. Buses based at Langarth Park in
Threemilestone carry commuters into the city via Truro College, the
Royal Cornwall Hospital Treliske, County Hall, the railway station, the Royal Cornwall Museum and Victoria Square, through to a second car park on the east side of the city.
Truro is served by long-distance coach services, operated by
National Express; there are daily departures to
London
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,
Birmingham
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and Penzance.
Railway
Truro railway station is located about from the city centre. It is a stop on the
Cornish Main Line
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It directly serves Truro, St Austell, Bodmin (by ...
between and . The station is served by two
train operating companies:
*
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a History of rail transport in Great Britain, British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, ...
provides services to Penzance, Plymouth, ,
London Paddington, and .
*
CrossCountry
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The CrossCountry franchise was restructured by the Department for Transport (DfT) in 2006, ...
operates services between Penzance, Bristol Temple Meads, , , and .
History

To the north-east of the station is a stone
viaduct
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with views over the city, cathedral and Truro river in the distance. The longest viaduct on the line, it replaced
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel ( ; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engi ...
's wooden
Carvedras Viaduct in 1904. Connecting to the main line at Truro is the
Maritime Line to Falmouth in the south.

Truro's first railway station, at Highertown, was opened in 1852 by the
West Cornwall Railway (WCR) for trains to
Redruth
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and Penzance; it was known as ''Truro Road'' station. It was extended to the Truro river at Newham in 1855, but closed so that Newham served as the terminus. When the
Cornwall Railway
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connected the line to Plymouth, its trains ran to the present station above the city centre. The WCR diverted most passenger trains to the new station, leaving Newham mainly as a goods station until it closed in 1971; it became part of the
Great Western Railway
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. The route from Highertown to Newham is now the
Newham Trail', which is a
shared-use path
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on a countryside loop around the south side of the city.
Air
Newquay
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, Cornwall's main airport, is north of Truro. In 2017, it was thought to be the "fastest growing airport" in the UK. It has regular flights to
London Heathrow and other airports including
Isles of Scilly
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,
Dublin
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and
Düsseldorf
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, Germany.
River

There is a boat link to Falmouth along the Truro and Fal four times a day,
tide
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Tide tables ...
permitting. The fleet run by ''Enterprise Boats'', as part of the
Fal River Links; it calls on the way at
Malpas,
Trelissick,
Tolverne and
St Mawes.
Churches

The old parish church of Truro was St Mary's, which was incorporated into the cathedral in the later 19th century. The building dates from 1518, with a later tower and spire dating from 1769.
Parts of the town were in the parishes of
Kenwyn and St Clement (
Moresk) until the mid 19th century, when other parishes were created. The lofty
St George's church in Truro, designed by Rev. William Haslam, vicar of
Baldhu, was built of Cornish granite in 1855. The parish of St George's Truro was formed from part of Kenwyn in 1846. In 1865 two more parishes were created: St John's from part of Kenwyn and St Paul's from part of St Clement. St George's contains a large wall painting behind the high altar, the work of Stephany Cooper in the 1920s. Her father, Canon Cooper, had been a missionary in
Zanzibar
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and elsewhere. The theme of the mural is "Three Heavens": the first heaven has views of Zanzibar and its cathedral (a happy period in the life of the artist), the second views of the city of Truro including the cathedral, the railway viaduct and St George's Church (another happy period), and the third, above the others, separated from them by the River of Life (Christ is seen bridging the river and 17 saints including
St Piran and St Kenwyn are depicted).
Charles William Hempel was organist of St Mary's Church for 40 years from 1804 and also taught music. In 1805 he composed and printed ''Psalms from the New Version for the use of the Congregation of St. Mary's'', and in 1812 ''Sacred Melodies'' for the same congregation. These melodies gained popularity.
The oldest church in Truro is at
Kenwyn, on the northern side. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, but was almost wholly rebuilt in 1820, having deteriorated to the point where it was deemed unsafe.
St John's Church (dedicated to St John the Evangelist) was built in 1828 (architect P. Sambell) in the Classical style on a rectangular plan and with a gallery. Alterations were carried out in the 1890s.
St Paul's Church was built in 1848. The chancel was replaced in 1882–1884, the new chancel being the work of
J. D. Sedding. The tower is "broad and strong" (Pevsner) and the exterior of the aisles are ornamented in Sedding's version of the Perpendicular style.
[N. Pevsner, 1970. ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed. Penguin Books; pp. 234–235.] In the parish of St Paul is the former
Convent of the Epiphany (Anglican) at Alverton House, Tregolls Road, an early 19th-century house extended for the convent of the Community of the Epiphany and the chapel was built in 1910 by
Edmund H. Sedding.
The sisterhood was founded by the Bishop of Truro,
George Howard Wilkinson in 1883 and closed in 2001 when two surviving nuns moved into care homes. The sisters had been involved in pastoral and educational work and care of the cathedral and St Paul's Church. St Paul's Church, built with a tower on a river bed with poor foundations, has fallen into disrepair and is no longer used. Services are now held at the churches of St Clement, St George, and St John. St Paul and St Clement form a united benefice, as do St George and St John.
Other denominations
One Methodist place of worship remains in use, in Union Place – Truro Methodist Church – which has a broad granite front (1830, but since enlarged). There is a Quaker Meeting House in granite () and numerous other churches, some meeting in their own modern buildings, e. g. St Piran's Roman Catholic church and All Saints, Highertown, and some in schools or halls. St Piran's, dedicated to Our Lady of the Portal and St Piran, was built on the site of a medieval chapel by
Margaret Steuart Pollard in 1973, for which she received the
Benemerenti Medal from the Pope. The Baptist church building occupies the site of the former Lake's pottery, one of the oldest in Cornwall.
Education
A free
grammar school
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associated with St Mary's Church was endowed in the 16th century. Its distinguished pupils have included the scientist Sir
Humphry Davy
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, General
Sir Hussey Vivian and the clergyman,
Henry Martyn.
The former Truro Girls Grammar School was converted into a
Sainsbury's
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supermarket.
Educational institutions in Truro today include:
*Archbishop Benson – A
Church of England
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voluntary aided primary school
*
Polwhele House Preparatory School — since the closure of
Truro Cathedral School educating also the 18 boy choristers of
Truro Cathedral
*
Truro School — a
public school founded in 1880
*
Truro High School for Girls — a public school for ages 13–18
*
Penair School — a state co-educational science college for ages 11–16
*
Richard Lander School — a state co-educational technology college for ages 11–16
*
Truro and Penwith College — A
further and higher education college attached to the
Combined Universities in Cornwall
*
University of Exeter
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Medical School
Development

Truro has many proposed urban development schemes, most of which are intended to counter the main problems, notably
traffic congestion and lack of
housing
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.
Major proposals include construction of a
distributor road to carry traffic away from the busy Threemilestone-Treliske corridor, reconnecting at Penventinnie Lane. This will serve the new housing planned for that area.
Changes proposed for the city centre include traffic restrictions in some of the main shopping streets and the encouragement of conversion of appropriate commercial properties back to residential use.
[ Since March 2023, through traffic has been prohibited from entering some streets in the City centre.
Re-development of the former Carrick District Council site at the top of Pydar Street will provide much needed homes, and facilitate the relocation to Truro of a faculty of the University of Falmouth, as well as creating space for a hotel, restaurants, leisure facilities, open spaces and public amenities.] Langarth Garden Village, a major development aiming to provide homes for 8000-10000 residents, has begun construction. This includes a new access road for the development, which is being delivered alongside the A30 improvements scheme.
Along with redevelopment of the waterfront, a tidal barrier is planned to dam water into the Truro River, which is currently blighted by mud banks that appear at low tide.
More controversial plans include the construction of an urban extension at Langarth, to the west of the city, including a new stadium for Truro City F.C. and the Cornish Pirates, and perhaps eventually the relocation of the city's golf course
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to make way for more housing. A smaller project is the addition of two large sculptures in the Piazza.
Notable residents
Public thinking, public service
* Sir Henry Killigrew (c. 1528–1603), Cornish diplomat and an ambassador
* Owen Fitzpen (1552–1636), philanthropist and merchant seaman, led a successful slave revolt in 1627 to free captives of Barbary pirates
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, memorialised on a plaque in St Mary's Church.
* John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (1606–1685) a politician who fought for the Parliamentary cause
* William Gwavas (1676–1741), barrister and writer in the Cornish language
* Edward Boscawen (1711–1761), Royal Navy
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admiral
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, eponym of a cobbled street at the centre of Truro and a park
* Samuel Walker (1714–1761), evangelical clergyman, curate of Truro from 1746
* Richard Polwhele (1760–1838) a clergyman, poet and historian of Cornwall and Devon
* Charles Sandoe Gilbert (1760–1831), druggist and historian of Cornwall
* Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian (1775–1842) a senior British cavalry officer
* Henry Martyn (1781–1812), Cambridge
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mathematician and missionary in India
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and Persia
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, who translated the Bible into local languages
* Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro (1782–1855) Lord High Chancellor, 1850 to 1852.
* Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds (1786–1861) senior Royal Navy
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officer
*FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
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(1788–1855) a senior Army officer and MP for Truro in 1818 & 1826.
* Richard Spurr (1800–1855), cabinet maker and lay preacher imprisoned for Chartism. A large allotment in the town was dedicated to him in 2011.
* Major-General Sir Henry James (1803–1877), a Royal Engineers officer and DG of the Ordnance Survey
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1854–1875
* Richard Lemon Lander (1804–1834), explorer in West Africa. A local secondary school is named in his honour and a monument to his memory stands at the top of Lemon Street.
* John Lander (1806–1839), printer and explorer with his brother Richard Lemon Lander
* Charles Chorley (c. 1810–1874), journalist and man of letters
* William Bennett Bond (1815–1906), Canadian priest and second primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
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* Alexander Mackennal (1835–1904), nonconformist minister
* Silvanus Trevail (1851–1903) local architect and mayor of Truro
* Joseph Hunkin (1887–1950), Bishop of Truro from 1935 to 1950
* James Henry Fynn (Finn, 1893–1917), recipient of the Victoria Cross
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* Barbara Joyce West (1911–2007), second-to-last survivor of the
* Alison Adburgham (1912–1997), social historian and fashion journalist, died in the town.
* Hugh Clegg (1920–1995), academic, founded the National Board for Prices and Incomes (1965–1971)
* David Penhaligon (1944–1986), politician, Liberal MP for Truro
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1974–1986
* Paul Myners, Baron Myners, (1948–2022), businessman and politician
* Mark Laity (born c. 1962), NATO
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spokesman and former BBC
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correspondent
* NneNne Iwuji-Eme (born c. 1978), British diplomat, UK High Commissioner to Mozambique
* Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, (1979–2009), a British Army bomb-disposal expert
Arts
* Giles Farnaby (c. 1563–1640), composer and virginalist
* Samuel Foote (1720–1777), actor and playwright
* Henry Bone (1755–1834), porcelain, jewellery and enamel painter
* Joseph Antonio Emidy (1775–1835), former slave from Guinea turned violinist
* Charles William Hempel (1777–1855), organist of St Mary's Church, Truro, and poet
* Nicholas Michell (1807–1880) a Cornish writer, best known for his poetry
* Charles Frederick Hempel (1811–1867), organist and composer
* Walter Hawken Tregellas (1831–1894) professional draughtsman and historical and biographical writer
* Francis Charles Hingeston-Randolph (1833–1910), cleric, antiquary and author
* Henry Dawson Lowry (1869–1906), journalist, short story writer, novelist and poet
*Hugh Walpole
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(1884–1941) novelist, who attended a preparatory school in Truro
* Maria Kuncewiczowa (1895–1989), Polish writer living in Truro after WWII. Her novel ''Tristan 1946'' was set here.
* Margaret Steuart Pollard (1904–1996), poet and translator lived in Truro from 1930s
* William Golding (1911–1993), novelist, playwright and poet, gained the Nobel Prize in Literature
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in 1983. Born in St Columb Minor, he returned to live near Truro in 1985.
* Alison Adburgham (1912–1997), author, social historian and fashion editor of The Guardian
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* Irene Newton (1915–1992), artist
* Catherine Grubb, artist (born 1945), lives in Truro.
* Roger Taylor (born 1949), drummer from the rock band Queen
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* Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king
* Queen (band), a British rock band
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* Queen dowager, the widow of a king
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* Robert Goddard (born 1954), novelist, lives in Truro.
* James Marsh (born 1963), film director and Academy Award winner
* Ben Salfield (born 1971), guitarist, lutenist, composer and teacher, has lived in Truro since age of nine.
* Paul Kerensa (born 1979), comedy writer and stand-up comedian
* Brett Harvey (born c. 1980), film writer and director based in Cornwall
* Calvin Dean (born 1985), award-winning actor
* Kerensa Briggs (born 1991), composer
*Oliver Buckland (born 1997), composer, was a Truro Cathedral chorister and student of Polwhele School.
Science and business
* John Vivian (1750–1826) industrialist in Swansea
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, descendant of the Vivian family
* Elizabeth Andrew Warren (1786–1864) a Cornish botanist and marine algologist
* Charles Foster Barham (1804–1884), physician and writer on public health
* Edwin Dunkin (1821–1898) an astronomer and the president of the Royal Astronomical Society
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* Henry Charlton Bastian (1837–1915), physiologist
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and neurologist
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* Edward Arnold (1857–1942), a publisher, founded Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd in 1890.
* Elsie Wilkins Sexton (1868–1959) a zoologist and biological illustrator
* H. Lou Gibson (1906–1992), expert in medical uses of infrared
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to detect breast cancer
Sport
* Nick Nieland (born 1972), javelin gold medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
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* Matthew Etherington (born 1981), former professional footballer with 426 club caps, he played for West Ham and Stoke City.
* David Paynter (born 1981), former first-class cricketer
* Tom Voyce (1981–2024) former rugby union footballer with London Wasps and England
* Annabel Vernon (born 1982), retired rower, team silver medallist at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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* Chris Harris (born 1982), international speedway rider
* Gemma Prescott (born 1983), Paralympic track and field athlete
* Darren Dawidiuk (born 1987), rugby union footballer
* Craig Alcock (born 1987), professional footballer
* Matthew Whorwood (born 1989), Paralympic swimmer, bronze medallist in two Paralympic Games
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* Matthew Shepherd (born 1990), rugby union player
* Luke Cowan-Dickie (born 1993), rugby union player
* Jack Nowell (born 1993), rugby union player
* Molly Caudery (born 2000), British pole vaulter
* Alex Quinn (born 2000), racing driver
See also
*Diocese of Truro
The Diocese of Truro (established 1876) is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury which covers Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and a small part of Devon. The bishop's seat is at Truro Cathedral.
Geography and history
The d ...
*List of topics related to Cornwall
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References
External links
*
Truro City Council website
Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Truro
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Cornish capitals
Cities in South West England
Towns in Cornwall
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Populated places established in the 12th century
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Cornish Killas
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