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50°11′10″N5°04′41″W / 50.186°N 5.078°W / 50.186; -5.078

Mylor Bridge (Cornish : Ponsnowyth) [1] is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in Mylor civil parish at the head of Mylor Creek, about five miles north of Falmouth. [2]

Found in Mylor Bridge are a Post Office/Newsagents, grocery store, fishmonger, hairdressers, butcher's shop and a public house called the Lemon Arms. The village also has a primary school. [3] The parish church of Saint Mylor is in the nearby village of Mylor Churchtown. [4]

Mylor Bridge lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Governance

The village is represented as Penryn East and Mylor on Cornwall Council. [5] It was formerly in the Falmouth and Camborne parliamentary electoral constituency; since 2010 it has been in the Truro and Falmouth constituency. [6] Notably, the former Member for Parliament (MP) for Truro and Falmouth, Sarah Newton, lives on Church Road in Mylor Bridge.

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References

  1. ↑ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine  : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine . Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth ISBN   978-0-319-23149-4
  3. ↑ Mylor Bridge Primary School; Retrieved April 2010
  4. ↑ GENUKI website; Mylor. Retrieved April 2010
  5. ↑ Cornwall Council website. Retrieved April 2010
  6. ↑ "Truro and Falmouth (Parliamentary Constituency) - Cornish Place Names".
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