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Padstow, the Glossary

Padstow (Cornish Standard Written Form) is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.^[1]

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Cornish Killas
Ports and harbours of Cornwall
Seaside resorts in Cornwall
Towns in Cornwall

Acolyte

An acolyte is an assistant or follower assisting the celebrant in a religious service or procession.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Atlantic Coast Express

The Atlantic Coast Express (ACE) is an express passenger train in England that has operated at various times between London and seaside resorts in the South West England.

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Æthelstan

Æthelstan or Athelstan (– 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939.

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Bardic name

A bardic name is a pseudonym used in Wales, Cornwall, or Brittany by poets and other artists, especially those involved in the eisteddfod movement.

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A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts consisting of a fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s.

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Beltane

Beltane or Bealtaine (approximately) is the Gaelic May Day festival, marking the beginning of summer.

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Black Tor Ferry

The Black Tor Ferry, also known as the Padstow to Rock Ferry, is a passenger ferry which crosses the tidal River Camel in north Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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Blackface

Blackface is the practice of performers using burnt cork or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people on stage or in entertainment.

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Bodmin

Bodmin (Bosvena) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Padstow and Bodmin are civil parishes in Cornwall, Cornish Killas, Manors in Cornwall and towns in Cornwall.

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Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway

The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was a railway line opened in 1834 in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Border Morris

Border Morris is a collection of individual local dances from villages along the English side of the Wales–England border in the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.

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Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December).

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Brig

A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged.

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Bristol Channel

The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren, literal translation: "Severn Sea") is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales (from Pembrokeshire to the Vale of Glamorgan) and South West England (from Devon, Somerset to North Somerset).

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.

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British Transport Commission

The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority).

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Calais

Calais (traditionally) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture.

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Camel Trail

The Camel Trail is a permissive cycleway in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, that provides a recreational route for walkers, runners, cyclists and horse riders.

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Celebrity chef

A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become a celebrity.

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Celtic mythology

Celtic mythology is the body of myths belonging to the Celtic peoples.

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Charles Henderson (historian)

Charles Gordon Henderson (11 July 1900 – 24 September 1933) was a Cornish historian and antiquarian.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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Clio (barque)

The Clio was a three-masted barque (1838-1866) built of black birch, pine and oak at Granville, Nova Scotia, (weight: 473 tons).

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Cornish language

Cornish (Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family.

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Cornish people

The Cornish people or Cornish (Kernowyon, Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall: and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, which (like the Welsh and Bretons) can trace its roots to the Brittonic Celtic ancient Britons who inhabited Great Britain from somewhere between the 11th and 7th centuries BC and inhabited Britain at the time of the Roman conquest.

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Cornish wrestling

Cornish wrestling (Omdowl Kernewek) is a form of wrestling that has been established in Cornwall for many centuries and possibly longer.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Cornwall Council

Cornwall Council (Konsel Kernow), known between 1889 and 2009 as Cornwall County Council (Konteth Konsel Kernow), is the local authority which governs the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall in South West England.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Donald Rawe

Donald Ryley Rawe (1930–2018) was a Cornish publisher, dramatist, novelist, and poet.

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Doom Bar

The Doom Bar (previously known as Dunbar sands, Dune-bar, and similar names) is a sandbar at the mouth of the estuary of the River Camel, where it meets the Atlantic Ocean on the north coast of Cornwall, England.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is an area in the East of England.

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East Midlands

The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England.

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Elvan

Elvan is a name used in Cornwall and Devon for the native varieties of quartz-porphyry.

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Enys Tregarthen

Nellie Sloggett (29 December 1850 in Padstow, Cornwall, UK – 1923) was an author and folklorist who wrote under the names Enys Tregarthen and Nellie Cornwall.

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Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth (label) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Padstow and Falmouth, Cornwall are civil parishes in Cornwall, Cornish Killas, Populated coastal places in Cornwall, ports and harbours of Cornwall, seaside resorts in Cornwall and towns in Cornwall.

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Fertility rite

Fertility rites or fertility cult are religious rituals that are intended to stimulate reproduction in humans or in the natural world.

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Folklore studies

Folklore studies (less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom) is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore.

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Fowey

Fowey (Fowydh, meaning 'Beech Trees') is a port town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Padstow and Fowey are civil parishes in Cornwall, Cornish Killas, ports and harbours of Cornwall and towns in Cornwall.

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Gilbert Hunter Doble

Gilbert Hunter Doble (26 November 1880 – 15 April 1945) was an Anglican priest and Cornish historian and hagiographer.

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Gorsedh Kernow

Gorsedh Kernow (Cornish Gorsedd) is a non-political Cornish organisation, based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.

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Guise dancing

Guise dancing (sometimes known as goose, goosey or geese dancing) is a form of community mumming practiced during the twelve days of Christmastide, that is, between Christmas Day and Twelfth Night in West Cornwall, England, UK.

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Half tide dock

A half tide dock is a partially tidal dock.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Hundreds of Cornwall

The hundreds of Cornwall (Keverangow Kernow) were administrative divisions or Shires (hundreds) into which Cornwall, the present day administrative county of England, in the United Kingdom, was divided between and 1894, when they were replaced with local government districts.

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John Leland (antiquary)

John Leland or Leyland (13 September, – 18 April 1552) was an English poet and antiquary.

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Jute

Jute is a long, rough, shiny bast fibre that can be spun into coarse, strong threads.

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Kernow (bus company)

Kernow (formerly known as First Kernow) is a bus company operating services in Cornwall, England.

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Little Petherick

Little Petherick (Nansfenten) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of St Issey, in the Cornwall district, in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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London and South Western Railway

The London and South Western Railway (LSWR, sometimes written L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922.

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London Waterloo station

Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a major central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.

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May Day

May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's Spring equinox and June solstice.

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Maypole

A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place.

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Minstrel

A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe.

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Molly dance

Molly dancing is a form of English Morris dance, traditionally done by out-of-work ploughboys in midwinter in the 19th century.

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Montol Festival

The Montol Festival (often just Montol) is an annual festival in Penzance, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which has been held on 21 December each year since 2007.

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Newquay

Newquay (label) is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Padstow and Newquay are civil parishes in Cornwall, Cornish Killas, Populated coastal places in Cornwall, ports and harbours of Cornwall, seaside resorts in Cornwall and towns in Cornwall.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).

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North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)

North Cornwall is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Ben Maguire, a Liberal Democrat since the 2024 general election.

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North Cornwall Railway

The North Cornwall Railway (NCR) also known as the North Cornwall Line, was a standard gauge railway line running from Halwill in Devon, to Padstow in Cornwall, at a distance of via Launceston, Camelford and Wadebridge.

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Norwich Cathedral

Norwich Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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Padstow (electoral division)

Padstow (Cornish: Lannwedhenek) is an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom.

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Padstow Coastal Gun Battery

Padstow Coastal Gun Battery was built in the summer of 1940 at the northern end of the Bodmin Stop Line to defend against a German invasion of Britain.

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Padstow Lifeboat Station

Padstow Lifeboat Station has been at Trevose Head west of Padstow, Cornwall, since 1967.

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Padstow railway station (England)

Padstow railway station (Lannwedhenek) was the western terminus of the North Cornwall Railway.

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Paul Ainsworth

Paul Ainsworth (born 1979) is an English chef from Southampton, England.

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Penzance

Penzance (Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Padstow and Penzance are civil parishes in Cornwall, Cornish Killas, Populated coastal places in Cornwall, ports and harbours of Cornwall and towns in Cornwall.

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Plymouth

Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England.

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Plymouth Citybus

Plymouth Citybus Plymouth Citybus Limited is a bus operator in Plymouth.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Prideaux Place

Prideaux Place is a grade I listed Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England.

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Quebec City

Quebec City (or; Ville de Québec), officially known as Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Rick Stein

Christopher Richard Stein, (born 4 January 1947) is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur, writer and television presenter.

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River Camel

The River Camel (Dowr Kammel, meaning crooked river) is a river in Cornwall, England. Padstow and river Camel are Cornish Killas.

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Rock, Cornwall

Rock (Pennmeyn) is a coastal fishing village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Padstow and Rock, Cornwall are Populated coastal places in Cornwall.

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Saint Petroc

Petroc or Petrock (Petrocus; Pedrog; Perreux) was a British prince and Christian saint.

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Saints' Way

The Saints' Way (Forth an Syns) is a long-distance footpath in mid Cornwall, England, UK.

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Shilling

The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Shipwreck

A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water.

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Shoal

In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padstow

Also known as Padstow Bay, Padstow Horse, Padstow, Cornwall.

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See also

Cornish Killas

Ports and harbours of Cornwall

Seaside resorts in Cornwall

Towns in Cornwall

References