Geraint was a King of Dumnonia who ruled in the early 8th century. During his reign, it is believed that Dumnonia came repeatedly into conflict with neighbouring Anglo-Saxon Wessex. Geraint was the last recorded king of a unified Dumnonia, and was called King of the Welsh by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Subsequent kings of Dumnonia reigned over an area that was eventually reduced to the limits of present-day Cornwall.
Veryan is a coastal civil parish and village on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village has been described as one of Cornwall's loveliest inland villages and as ′a mild tropic garden′ by John Betjeman. It is probably best known for the round-houses, built by the vicar Jeremiah Trist in the early 19th-century.
The Roseland Peninsula, or just Roseland, is a district of west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Roseland is located in the south of the county and contains the town of St Mawes and villages such as St Just and Gerrans. It is a peninsula, separated from the remainder of Cornwall by the River Fal.
The hundreds of Cornwall were administrative divisions (hundreds) into which Cornwall, the present day administrative county of England, in the United Kingdom, was divided between c. 925 and 1894, when they were replaced with local government districts
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener was a New Testament textual critic and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version of the Bible. He was prebendary of Exeter, and vicar of Hendon.
Portloe is a small village in Cornwall, England, UK, situated on the Roseland Peninsula, within the civil parish of Veryan, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of the village of the same name. Portloe harbours two full-time working fishing vessels, the Jasmine and Katy Lil, which fish for crab and lobster in Veryan and Gerrans Bay, and a fleet of smaller leisure boats in summer. The harbour is run by a committee, the chair of which is Charles Williams. Visitors are attracted to Portloe by its fishing, scenery, and walks.
West Cornwall was a county constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election.
Bohortha is a coastal village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the east side of the Roseland Peninsula two miles south of Portscatho. According to the Post Office the population at the 2011 Census was included in the civil parish of Gerrans.
St Anthony in Roseland is a village and a former parish in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is a small settlement on the Roseland Peninsula.
Portscatho is a coastal village on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village adjoins Gerrans on the east side of the peninsula, about seven miles (11 km) south-southeast of Truro.
Curgurrell is a hamlet on the Roseland Peninsula north of Portscatho in Cornwall, England. Dingerein Castle, an Iron Age, fort is nearby. At the 2011 census the population was included in the civil parish of Gerrans
Percuil is a hamlet in Roseland, Cornwall, England. Percuil is on the east bank of the Percuil River and south-west of Gerrans.
Rosevine is a farm in the parish of Gerrans in Cornwall, England.
Tregear is a hamlet near Garras in the parish of Mawgan in Meneage, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It should be distinguished from Tregear in the parish of Gerrans.
Carricknath Point to Porthbean Beach is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Cornwall, England, UK, noted for its biological interest.
Gerrans Bay to Camels Cove is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in south Cornwall, England, UK, noted for both its biological and geological interest.
Truro Rural District was a local government division of Cornwall in England, UK, between 1894 and 1974. Established under the Local Government Act 1894, in 1934 the rural district was enlarged by the abolition of East Kerrier Rural District, Redruth Rural District and St Columb Major Rural District, but reduced to enlarge Truro Municipal Borough.
