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Royal Air Force St Mawgan or more simply RAF St Mawgan is a Royal Air Force station near St Mawgan and Newquay in Cornwall, England. In 2008 the runway part of the site was handed over to Newquay Airport. The remainder of the station continues to operate under the command of the RAF. RAF St Mawgan used to have the widest military runway in the UK which was the home for the Cornwall Air Ambulance service and more recently 505 Wessex squadron RAF Reserves.
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  • 2. St. Michael's Mount Marazion
    St Michael's Mount is a small tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water. The population of this parish in 2011 was 35. It is managed by the National Trust, and the castle and chapel have been the home of the St Aubyn family since approximately 1650. The earliest buildings, on the summit, date to the 12th century.Its Cornish language name—literally, the grey rock in a wood—may represent a folk memory of a time before Mount's Bay was flooded, indicating a description of the mount set in woodland. Remains of trees have been seen at low tides following storms on the beach at Perranuthnoe. Radiocarbon dating established the...
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  • 3. Screech Owl Sanctuary St Columb Major
    Screech Owl Sanctuary is a haven for sick and injured owls located near St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. The sanctuary hosts hundreds of owls in a number of aviaries organized by species, and in 2002 was the recipient of a BBC Animal Award for its work in animal welfare.
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  • 4. Perranporth Beach Perranporth
    Perranporth is a medium-sized seaside resort town on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 1 mile east of the St Agnes Heritage Coastline, and around 8 miles south-west of Newquay. Perranporth and its 3 miles long beach face the Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of 3,066, and is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Perranzabuloe. It has an electoral ward in its own name, whose population was 4,270 in the 2011 census.The town's modern name comes from Porth Peran, the Cornish for the cove of Saint Piran, the patron saint of Cornwall. He founded St Piran's Oratory on Penhale Sands near Perranporth in the 7th century. Buried under sand for many centuries, it was unearthed in the 19th century.
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  • 7. St. Mawgan Church St Mawgan
    St Mawgan in Pydar is a civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The population of this parish at the 2011 census was 1,307. The village of St Mawgan is situated four miles northeast of Newquay, and the parish also includes the hamlet of Mawgan Porth. The nearby Royal Air Force station, RAF St. Mawgan, takes its name from the village and is next to Newquay Cornwall Airport. The River Menalhyl runs through St Mawgan village and the valley is known as The Vale of Lanherne. It was the subject of a poem by poet Henry Sewell Stokes.
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