Gloweth

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Gloweth is a housing estate west of Treliske on the western outskirts of Truro in Cornwall, England. [1]

There is an electoral ward named Threemilestone and Gloweth. At the 2011 census the population of this ward was 4,275 [2] As of 2018, the ward population was 3,072. [3]

Etymology

Gloweth means the down with the barrows in the Cornish language. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN   9780319232903.
  2. ↑ "Ward list 2011" . Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Initial proposals for new Parliamentary constituency boundaries in the South West" (PDF). Boundary Commission for England . Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  4. ↑ Bannister, Rev. John (1869–1871). The Salamanca Corpus: A Glossary of Cornish Names. Universidad de Salamanca (published 1869). p. 100. ISBN   978-3368119690.

50°15′40″N5°05′46″W / 50.261°N 5.096°W / 50.261; -5.096

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