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    Polperro (Cornish: Porthpyra, meaning Pyra's cove) is a large village, civil parish, and fishing harbour within the Polperro Heritage Coastline in south...
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  • fishing businesses; additionally some scenes were filmed in neighbouring Polperro as well as Fowey. The fictional town is set slightly back from the coast...
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    The Polperro Gaffer is a type of fishing vessel used in Cornwall. The Great Gale of 1891 destroyed the fishing fleets of many of the smaller Cornish villages...
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    (born 1986) and Chloe Susannah (born 1987). They have a second home at Polperro in Cornwall having been on holiday together there before their marriage...
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    Polruan to Polperro is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation (SAC) in south-east Cornwall, England, UK...
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    a rhyme used in Polperro, Cornwall, in conjunction with Joan the Wad, the Cornish version of Will-o'-the-wisp. The people of Polperro regarded them both...
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    The River Pol, also known as the Polperro River is a small river in southeastern Cornwall. The river rises near the village of Pelynt, and then flows through...
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    family of Polperro". Polperro Heritage Museum. Retrieved 2 March 2012. Johns, Jeremy Rowett (2000). "The Couch family of Polperro". Polperro Heritage Museum...
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    fourth Eddystone lighthouse built on the Stone 13 miles South-east of Polperro, Cornwall, England. Built by the English civil engineer John Smeaton (1724-1792)...
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  • character in Jamaica Inn Tregony Trematon Trethevy Trevose Treyarnon Polzeath Polperro Polgooth Penzance Penryn Penponds Cornwall portal Cornish surnames Cornish...
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    the same name, sometimes known as a knit-frock in Cornwall, especially Polperro. The guernsey is the mainstay of Guernsey's knitting industry which can...
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    Webster's Cribs for Victory: The Untold Story of Bletchley Park's Secret Room, Polperro Heritage Press, ISBN 978-0-9559541-8-4 Price, David A. (2021). Geniuses...
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    Webster's Cribs for Victory: The Untold Story of Bletchley Park's Secret Room, Polperro Heritage Press, ISBN 978-0-9559541-8-4 Pogue, Forrest C. (1954), The Supreme...
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  • Studios and location shooting took place around Polkerris, Mevagissey and Polperro and Chapel Porth in Cornwall, as well as the London Heliport in Battersea...
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    fishing and diving, and spectacular coastal walks (especially via Talland to Polperro). South East Cornwall boasts several stately homes, including Antony House...
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    9th she undertook her eight-hour-long full-power contractor trials off Polperro on the Cornwall coast during which she averaged 20.05 knots and 21.6 knots...
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  • Gaelic. Homologous with K peath, W peth. pol, pwll C, K, W. pool or lake Polperro, Polruan, Polzeath, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Pwll, Llanelli, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll...
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  • Perlican Ondarroa Ona Orio Pasaia Peggys Cove Pittenweem Plentzia Po Toi O Polperro Port Isaac Portavogie Portmahomack Portofino Red Bay Reine Sa Riera St...
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    the English Channel, about one mile from East Looe in the direction of Polperro, it is about 22.5 acres (9 ha) in area and a mile (1.6 km) in circumference...
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    The Cornish lugger was a traditional type of fishing boat and at Polperro Polperro Gaffers were used. The most important fishing ports on the north coast...
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    platform. Also on the south coast, the picturesque fishing village of Polperro, at the mouth of the Pol River, and the fishing port of Looe on the River...
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    Reyburn, Wallace (2010). Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper. Polperro Heritage Press. ISBN 978-0-9559541-5-3. (fiction) Wikimedia Commons has...
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    Perlican Ondarroa Ona Orio Pasaia Peggys Cove Pittenweem Plentzia Po Toi O Polperro Port Isaac Portavogie Portmahomack Portofino Red Bay Reine Sa Riera St...
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    now Plymouth Rd west of Totnes. A386 Plymouth Appledore A387 Polbathic Polperro A388 Saltash bypass Landcross A389 Padstow Lanivet A390 Tavistock Truro...
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    2015. Retrieved 18 April 2021. Glass, Conrad (2014). Rockhopper Copper. Polperro Heritage Press. ISBN 978-0-9530012-3-1. "Tristan da Cunha Isolation & Hardship...
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  • painted in the Netherlands, as some of his paintings suggest. He died at Polperro, in 1924, and is buried there, in the civil parish of Liskeard. While Blacklock...
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    Crumplehorn (category Polperro)
    of Polperro, within the civil parish of Polperro and is located 4 miles (6.4 km) west of the town of Looe. It serves as the main carpark for Polperro, as...
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    autobiography, Through Grown-up Eyes: Living with Childhood Fame, was published by Polperro Heritage Press in September 2013. Henrey was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's...
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    Port Isaac, a historic fishing village on the north coast of Cornwall Polperro, on the south coast of Cornwall, has been an active fishing and smuggling...
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  • game.[citation needed] One of his works, The Lost Crown, was based on the Polperro harbour, which was renamed as Saxton in the game.[citation needed] Hazen...
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