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    St Mawgan or St Mawgan in Pydar (Cornish: Lanherne) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The population of this parish at...
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    Royal Air Force St Mawgan or more simply RAF St Mawgan is a Royal Air Force station near St Mawgan and Newquay in Cornwall, England. In 2008 the runway...
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    frequency communications used by the maritime Nimrods flying from RAF St Mawgan with the receiver site near RAF Mountbatten, Plymouth. The site is home...
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  • St Mawgan Monastery was a monastery at St Mawgan in Cornwall, UK, originally of Celtic monks and after the Norman Conquest of Cluniac monks. A Celtic monastery...
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    located at Mawgan in Pydar, 4 NM (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) northeast of the town of Newquay on Cornwall's north coast. Its runway was operated by RAF St Mawgan before...
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  • dedications, Mawgan in Cornwall and Brittany and Meugan in Wales, but it is uncertain whether the names refer to one and the same person. The parishes of St Mawgan...
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    Mawgan Porth (in Cornish: Porth Maugan, meaning "St. Mawgan's cove", or Porth Glyvyan, meaning "cove of the Gluvian River") is a beach and small settlement...
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  • Organisation (DSTO), is a military training organisation based at RAF St Mawgan, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It is tri-service and trains personnel...
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    based at RAF Kinloss in Scotland (120, 201 and 206 Squadrons), and RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall (42 and 38(R) Squadrons). Following Options for Change, 42...
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    moved to RAF St Mawgan in 1965, the last T.4 was replaced by a T.2 in 1968. Air-Sea Warfare Development Unit RAF – 1951–60 at RAF St. Mawgan and RAF Ballykelly...
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    Retrieved 16 August 2013. "St Mawgan Climate". UKMO. Archived from the original on 11 November 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2018. "St Mawgan extremes". KNMI. Archived...
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    John Arundell (1366–1435) (category People from St Mawgan)
    11 January 1435), called The Magnificent, of Lanherne in the parish of St Mawgan in Pydar in Cornwall, was an English knight who inherited large estates...
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    Thorney Island Westland Whirlwind HAR.2 June 1956 - April 1974 - HQ at RAF St Mawgan Westland Whirlwind HAR.2 until August 1962 replaced by Whirlwind HAR.10s...
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    Honington Kirknewton Leeming Lossiemouth Marham Mona Northolt Odiham Shawbury St. Mawgan Swanwick Syerston Ternhill Topcliffe Trimingham Valley Waddington WOTG...
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    Canada's CF-104s in Germany, and the Royal Air Force's Nimrod from RAF St Mawgan and RAF Kinloss in the United Kingdom and Malta in the Mediterranean....
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    Sir John Arundell (1474–1545) Knight Banneret, of Lanherne, St Mawgan-in-Pyder, Cornwall, was "the most important man in the county", being Receiver-General...
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    in Shropshire, RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire, MOD St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall and RAF Valley on Anglesey. The No. 22...
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  • scenes were filmed at RAF St Mawgan, five miles (8 km) from Newquay. The sequence set in Alderney was filmed in Charlestown, near St Austell in Cornwall. Some...
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    closes with equipment and operation transferred to Joint Maritime Facility St Mawgan during 1995. During 1996 NAVFAC Keflavik Iceland closes and the new Fixed...
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    of NATO. This capability was most notably used at the air base of RAF St. Mawgan in Cornwall by British Avro Shackleton patrol planes and the Royal Netherlands...
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    Field, Bermuda to one of the two airfields in the Azores. then on to RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall throughout the year. Single-engine aircraft, however, had...
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    Mawgan-in-Meneage is a civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the Meneage district of The Lizard peninsula south of Helston...
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    Reformed April 1982 October 1983 RAF St. Mawgan RAF No. 42 (Reserve) Squadron Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 RAF St. Mawgan July 1992 26 May 2011 Disbanded RAF...
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  • Nimrod MR.2 flight on 30 March 2010 with XV232 visiting Rockall, St. Kilda, RAF St. Mawgan, RAF Valley and RAF Lossiemouth. It was originally expected that...
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    1995, ceased as an independent RAF station and became a satellite of RAF St Mawgan. As part of a major upgrade of RRH sites around the U.K. the MOD began...
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    strategic review of the future roles of RAF Brize Norton, RAF Lyneham and RAF St Mawgan, in anticipation of the arrival into RAF service of the Airbus A330 Voyager...
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    War II. St Eval church (dedicated to St Uvelus or Eval, about whom nothing is known) was incorporated into the combined benefice of St Mawgan, St Ervan...
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    been recorded in January. In 1987 the minimum temperature recorded at St Mawgan, Cornwall was −9 °C (16 °F) and −7.2 °C (19.0 °F) was noted on the Isles...
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    their role from 1 March 1991, leaving Brize Norton, Manston, Leuchars and St Mawgan with the role. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Notes:...
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  • St Keyne, St Lawrence, St Levan, St Mabyn, St Martin-by-Looe, St Martin-in-Meneage, St Mawes, St Mawgan, St Mellion, St Merryn, St Mewan, St Michael Caerhays...
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