Fore Street

Fore Street, St Austell

"Fore Street" is a name often used for the main street of a town or village. Usage is almost entirely confined to the south west of England but it does also occur in some other parts of the country. There is also a Fore Street in Portland, Maine, United States, presumably named by colonists from SW England. The prevalence of streets named "Fore Street" in Cornwall is due to a survival from the Cornish language -"Forth" = "Street". There are over seventy "Fore Streets" in Cornwall and about seventy five in Devon.

The name is to equivalent to the "High Street" of most of England, the "Front Street" of County Durham and the "Main Street" of Ireland and the USA.

Some Cornish towns and villages with a "Fore Street"

Albaston Ashton, Helston Barripper, Camborne Beacon, Camborne Bodmin Boscastle Bugle, St Austell Callington Calstock Camborne Camelford Cargreen Carharrack, Redruth Chacewater, Truro Constantine, Falmouth Copperhouse, Hayle East Looe Fowey

Golant, Fowey Goldsithney, Penzance Grampound Road, Truro Grampound, Truro Gunnislake Herodsfoot Kingsand Lelant, St Ives Lerryn Liskeard Lostwithiel Madron, Penzance Marazion Mevagissey, St Austell Millbrook Mount Hawke Mousehole, Penzance Nanpean

Newlyn, Penzance Newquay Penponds, Camborne Pensilva Polgooth Polperro Polruan Pool, Redruth Port Isaac Porthleven, Helston Praze-an-Beeble, Camborne Probus Redruth Roche, St Austell Saltash St Austell St Blazey,Par St Cleer

St Columb St Day, Redruth St Dennis, St Austell St Erth, Hayle St Germans St Ives St Just, Penzance St Mabyn, Bodmin St Stephen St Teath, Bodmin Sticker Stratton, Bude Tintagel Torpoint Tregony, Truro Troon, Camborne Tywardreath,Par West Looe

Some towns and villages in Devon with a “Fore Street”

Aveton Gifford Bampton Beer Bere Alston Bere Ferrers Bishopsteighton Bovey Tracey Bradninch Bridestowe Brixham Buckfastleigh Budleigh Salterton Chudleigh Chulmleigh Cornwood Cullompton Culmstock Dartmouth Devonport

Dolton Exbourne Exeter Exmouth Great Torrington Gunnislake Harberton Hartland Heavitree Hemyock Holberton Holcombe Rogus Holemoor Holesworthy Ide Ideford Ilfracombe Ipplepen Ivybridge

Kentisbeare Kenton Kingsbridge Kingskerswell Kingsteighton Langtree Lifton Loddiswell Luton Milton Abbot Moretonhampstead Northam North Molton North Tawton Okehampton Otterton Plympton Salcombe Seaton

Shaldon Sidbury Sidmouth Silverton South Brent South Tawton St Marychurch Tamerton Foliot Teignmouth Tiverton Topsham Torquay - Barton Totnes Uffculme Ugborough Winkleigh Witheridge Yealmpton

Some other UK places with streets called "Fore Street"

Somerset: Chard, Taunton, Dulverton, North Petherton, Bridgwater Wellington Winsham Dorset Evershot and Bridport Hertfordshire: Hertford, Hitchin and Old Hatfield Suffolk Ipswich and Framlingham Wiltshire Ashton Keynes, Trowbridge and Wylye

Other places . . . Basildon, Essex Birmingham, B2 Eastcote, London Edmonton, London City of London, EC2 Glasgow, G 14 Hexham, Northumberland Johnshaven, Montrose Lower Darwen, Lancashire

United States

• Portland, Maine
  • Fore Street (restaurant) in Portland, Maine

Gallery

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  Fore Street, Constantine

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  Fore Street, Redruth - with Clock Tower

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  Salters' Hall, Fore Street, London

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  Fore Street, St Columb

See also

• High Street
• Street or road name

Sources

• Cornwall Council's Interactive Map
• Street Map.co.uk