Tywardreath and Par

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Tywardreath and Par
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Tywardreath and Par
Location within Cornwall
Population3,247 (Parish, 2021) [1]
OS grid reference SX0854
Civil parish
  • Tywardreath and Par [2]
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town PAR
Postcode district PL24
Dialling code 01726
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Cornwall
Ambulance South Western
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Cornwall
50°21′25″N4°41′38″W / 50.357°N 4.694°W / 50.357; -4.694

Tywardreath and Par is a civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish takes its name from its principal villages, Tywardreath and the china clay port of Par. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 3,247.

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Geography

The A390, a primary route, crosses the northern boundary of the parish at a point 200 metres north of Higher Caruggatt. [3] The Cornish Main Line Railway enters the parish, from the east, at a point 50 metres north-east of Little Treverran, and exits the parish as it crosses the Par River, approximately 750 metres south of Par Station. [4]

The population of the parish was 3,247 at the 2021 census. [1] The population had been 3,161 in 2001, [5] and 3,192 in 2011. [6]

Governance

Tywardreath Methodist Church: Usual meeting place of the parish council Tywardreath Methodist Church - geograph.org.uk - 7409706.jpg
Tywardreath Methodist Church: Usual meeting place of the parish council

There are two tiers of local government covering Tywardreath and Par, at parish and unitary authority level: Tywardreath and Par Parish Council and Cornwall Council. The parish council generally meets at the Methodist Church on Well Street in Tywardreath. [7]

Administrative history

Tywardreath was an ancient parish in the Powder Hundred of Cornwall. In 1934 the parish was absorbed into the St Austell Urban District. Tywardreath continued to exist as a civil parish until 1968, but as an urban parish after 1934 it was ineligible for a parish council; St Austell Urban District Council was the lowest tier of local government. [8] St Austell Urban District was replaced in 1968 by the larger borough of St Austell with Fowey, which was in turn abolished six years later in 1974 to become part of the larger borough of Restormel. A new civil parish of Tywardreath was created in 1983. [9] The parish was renamed from Tywardreath to Tywardreath and Par in 2000. [10]

Restormel was abolished in 2009. Cornwall County Council then took on district-level functions, making it a unitary authority, and was renamed Cornwall Council. [11] [12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
  2. ↑ "Tywardreath and Par Parish Council". Tywardreathandparparishcouncil.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  3. ↑ http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=208516&y=54604&z=120&sv=Tywardreath&st=3&tl=Map+of+Tywardreath,+Cornwall+[Town]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf
  4. ↑ http://www.streetmap.co.uk/idld.srf?x=207500&y=53500&z=120&sv=par&st=3&tl=Map+of+Par,+Cornwall+[City/Town/Village]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=idld.srf
  5. ↑ "Office for National statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Restormel". Neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
  6. ↑ "Parish population at 2011 census". Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Meetings, agendas and minutes". Tywardreath and Par Parish Council. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "Tywardreath Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  9. ↑ "The Restormel (Parishes) Order 1983" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. The National Archives. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  10. ↑ Langston, Brett. "St Austell Registration District". UK BMD. Retrieved 15 September 2025.
  11. ↑ "The Cornwall (Structural Change) Order 2008", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, SI 2008/491, retrieved 19 February 2024
  12. ↑ "The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009: Article 3", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, SI 2009/837 (art. 3)

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