St Austell Clay Pits, (Cornwall, England, UK,) are a group of locations within active china clay quarries that form a single Site of Special Scientific...
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The Eden Project at Bodelva near St Austell, Cornwall, UK is a major redevelopment of a former china clay (kaolin) pit for educational and environmental...
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volunteers.[citation needed] The St Austell and Clay Country Eco-town is a plan for several new settlements around St Austell on old Imerys sites. It was given...
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Nest Plymouth Sound and Estuaries Polruan to Polperro River Camel St Austell Clay Pits The Lizard Tintagel-Marsland-Clovelly Coast (see Tintagel, Marsland...
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Pennine Moors South Solway Mosses South Wight Maritime St Albans Head to Durlston Head St Austell Clay Pits Staverton Park and The Thicks, Wantisden Stodmarsh...
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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...
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Lower Bostraze and Leswidden SSSI (redirect from Lower Bostraze China Clay Works)
"Mining in St Just". The Cornishman. No. 98. 27 May 1880. p. 8. "St Austell Clay Pits" (PDF). Natural England. 2000. Retrieved 11 January 2012. "St Just Moors...
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Cornwall, England. It was built as a horse-drawn tramway carrying china clay from St Austell to a new harbour at Pentewan, and was opened in 1829. In 1874 the...
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locations, all in Cornwall. These sites at Lower Bostraze and Leswidden, St Austell Clay Pits and Tregonning Hill, are all protected as Sites of Special Scientific...
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The Clay Trails are a series of bicycle trails located in mid Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The trails pass through the St Austell moorland which...
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(PDF). "St Agnes Beacon Pits" (PDF). "St Austell Clay Pits" (PDF). "St Erth Sand Pits" (PDF). "St Helen's (With Northwethel & Men-a-vaur)" (PDF). "St John's...
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Clay Branches are a number of railway branch lines that serve facilities that produce or process China Clay. The area of Cornwall north of St Austell...
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The St Austell Gulls were a speedway team which operated from 1949 until their closure in 1964 at the Cornish Stadium at Par, St Austell in Cornwall. In...
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English China Clays PLC, or ECC, was a mining company involved in the extraction of china clay, based in St Austell, Cornwall. It was once a constituent...
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Hensbarrow (redirect from St Austell Downs)
region covering an area of just under 12,000 hectares immediately north of St Austell. It is bounded in the north by the A30 road and runs from Retew and Treviscoe...
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Wheal Martyn (section Clay works)
Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum is a museum of china clay mining, at Carthew, on the B3274 road about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of St Austell in Cornwall, England...
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William Cookworthy discovered China Clay in the area. The area is characterised by tips and pits of china clay mining but St Dennis village itself is designated...
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Par, Cornwall (category St Blazey)
Par and the docks lie in the parish of St Blaise. Par is approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of St Austell. Par has a population of around 1,600 (in...
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Trewoon (section China clay)
extra 2500 houses in the Blackpool Dryers, Refinery and Pit, as part of the St Austell Clay Country Eco-town. The plan was given outline government approval...
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1988. Matthew Taylor, who had been Member of Parliament for Truro and St Austell from 1987 to 2010, chose the title Baron Taylor of Goss Moor when he was...
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lies within the parish of St Stephen-in-Brannel, and has a primary school. Foxhole lies on the B3279 road between St Austell and Newquay and is contiguous...
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Lansalson branch line (section China Clay)
the Great Western Railway (GWR) to serve the china clay industry in the Trenance valley near St Austell in Cornwall, UK. The line was authorised by the GWR...
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Whitemoor, Cornwall (redirect from Whitemoor St Austell)
St Dennis and Nanpean in the Clay Area of Cornwall. The school has since changed status to an Academy. Whitemoor is also home to the Dorothy Clay Pit...
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Cornubian batholith (section St Austell)
The main exposed masses of granite are seen at Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, St Austell, Carnmenellis, Land's End and the Isles of Scilly. The intrusion is associated...
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on the side. Tin, copper and iron mines, along with quarries and china clay pits became important industries in the area, which led to improvements at...
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who raced at the Clay Country Moto Parc in the clay pits near St Austell.[citation needed] The team took over from the St Austell Gulls who were an amateur...
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Carclaze (category St Austell)
of St Austell in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The suburb forms part of the civil parish of Treverbyn and gives its name to the china clay works...
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Nanpean (section China clay)
Austell in the heart of 'clay country', the china clay mining area of mid-Cornwall. There are plans to build 150–300 homes as part of the St Austell and...
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Tributaries Rock Dunes Rosemullion Rosenannon Bog and Downs St Austell Clay Pits St John's Lake St Nectan's Glen Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth Swanpool Sylvia's...
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The St Austell River (Cornish: Dowr an Wynyk, meaning the little white river) properly known as the River Vinnick, but historically called The White River...
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