Paul (Cornwall)
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ N , 5 ° 32 ′ W
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 Location in the former District of Penwith
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| status | Civil Parish | |||
| region | South West England | |||
| Ceremony county | Cornwall | |||
| Trad. county | Cornwall | |||
| Administrative headquarters | Paul | |||
| Residents | 239 (2001) | |||
| Post Code | TR19 6xx | |||
| Telephone code | 01736 | |||
| Sub-locations | Mousehole , Kerris | |||
| Website | - | |||
Paul ( Cornish : Breweni ) is a civil parish and a place in the former District of Penwith in the county of Cornwall in England . The place itself is within the current city limits of Penzance . However, there is a separate parish council in Paul that is responsible for the affairs of the area.
history
Much of Paul's story has to do with the Church of England , the national Church of England . The church in Paul is said to have been founded by the Celtic saint Paulinus Aurelianus in the year 490 (or a little later). Paul, along with Mousehole , Newlyn and Penzance, was one of the places destroyed in a 1595 raid by the Spaniards.
A monument in the village commemorates Dolly Pentreath , the last known native speaker of Cornish. Louis Lucien Bonaparte , a linguist and nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte , had the monument erected. The Cornish writers Nicholas Boson , Thomas Boson and John Boson are all buried in Paul's churchyard. In the church itself there is an epitaph by John Boson in the Cornish language.
