St Minver Highlands

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On the north coast: Lundy Hole
St Minver town center

St Minver Highlands is a municipality ( Parish ) on the north coast of the English county of Cornwall .

geography

St Minver Highlands is in the Landscape Character Area Cornish Killas . It borders Padslow Bay and Port Quin Bay , both of which are part of the Celtic Sea , to the north . The two bays are separated by the Pentire Head peninsula , at the tip of which is Cape Rumps Point . Two offshore small islands, The Mouls and Newland , are also part of it. In the south, the district extends to the lower reaches of the Camel River .

The parish includes the eponymous St Minver , Tredrizzick, New Polzeath, the eastern part of Polzeath and a number of smaller hamlets . The nearest larger towns are Wadebridge , a few kilometers to the south and, beyond the Camel, Padstow . Neighboring parishes, starting to the northeast and going clockwise, are St Endellion , St Kew , Egloshayle , St Breock and St Minver Lowlands . At the time of the 2011 census, 968 people lived in St Minver Lowlands, the municipal area is 21.7 square kilometers. Until the conversion of Cornwall into a unitary authority in 2009 and the related resolution of the districts of the county belonged to St Minver Highlands to North Cornwall .

Both the coastal area with the offshore islands and the shore area on Camel fall into the Area of ​​Outstanding Natural Beauty Cornwall AONB . Pentire Head is also designated as a nature reserve ( SSSI ), as well as the estuary of the River Amble, a tributary of the Camel, as Amble Marshes .

Buildings

A total of 51 buildings and facilities in the municipality are classified as culturally and historically significant. These are the parish church of St Menefreda from the late Middle Ages as a Listed Building in the highest category I, as well as two more in the category II * and forty-five in the category II. In addition there are the Cliff Castle The Rumps , the Trevornan Bridge and a crossroads as Scheduled Monument .

Web links

Commons : St Minver Highlands  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Location of the district with marked protected areas on the map server of Natural England , accessed on April 2, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ Presentation of the location and boundaries of St Minver Lowlands on the Ordnance Survey map server, accessed April 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ Town and Parish Councils on the District's website ( Memento from February 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Database query St Minver Highlands Parish on the website of Historic England , carried out on March 30, 2018. (English)

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′  N , 4 ° 53 ′  W