Whitemoor | |
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Approach to Whitemoor along North Road | |
Location within Cornwall | |
OS grid reference | SW9757 |
Civil parish | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | St Austell |
Postcode district | PL26 |
UK Parliament | |
Whitemoor is a village in St Stephen-in-Brannel civil parish in mid Cornwall, England. It is northeast of Nanpean. [1]
Whitemoor Community Primary School is a small village primary school, situated between St Dennis and Nanpean in the Clay Area of Cornwall. The school has since changed status to an Academy.
The school has actually been in Whitemoor for over a hundred years: but with a big new hall and airy classrooms, the pupils enjoy a modern environment. Its extensive grounds boast a "Pirate Ship", a Sports Field, a hard play area and a Science Garden.
Whitemoor is also home to the Dorothy Clay Pit.
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The Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway was a 7 ft broad gauge railway intended to link the Cornwall Railway with the horse-worked Newquay Railway. It opened a short section to Nanpean in 1869, the remainder being built by the Cornwall Minerals Railway who took over the company in 1874. Its main traffic has always been china clay.
St Dennis is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the B3279 between Newquay and St Austell.
St Stephen-in-Brannel is a civil parish and village in mid Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. St Stephen village is four miles (6.5 km) west of St Austell on the southern edge of Cornwall's china clay district. The parish also contains the villages of Foxhole, Nanpean, Treviscoe and Whitemoor, and the hamlets of Carpalla, Coombe, Currian Vale, High Street, Hornick, Lanjeth, Stepaside and Terras. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 7,119. An electoral ward also exists simply bearing the name St. Stephen. The population at the same census was 4,772 only.
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St Erme is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. The parish of St Erme, has a population of approximately 1200. This had increased to 1,363 in 2011 Trispen is a small village within the parish.
St Dennis Junction was in St Dennis, Cornwall.
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The St Austell and Clay Country Eco-town is a plan to build a new town on a cluster of sites owned by mining company Imerys near St Austell, in Cornwall, UK. The plan was given outline government approval in July 2009. The plan would need to gain full planning permission before construction commenced.
Whitemoor may refer to:
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