Mylor Bridge
Coordinates: 50°11′10″N 5°04′41″W / 50.186°N 5.078°W
Mylor Bridge(Cornish: Ponsnowyth)[1] is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in Mylor civil parish at the head of Mylor Creek, about five miles north of Falmouth.[2]
Found in Mylor Bridge are a Post Office/Newsagents, grocery store, fishmonger, hairdressers, butcher's shop and a public house called the Lemon Arms. The village also has a primary school.[3] The parish church of Saint Mylor is in the nearby village of Mylor Churchtown.[4]
Mylor Bridge lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.
Governance
The village is represented as Penryn East and Mylor on Cornwall Council.[5] It was formerly in the Falmouth and Camborne parliamentary electoral constituency; from 2010 it will be in the Falmouth and Truro constituency. The current Member for Parliament (MP) is Sarah Newton of the Conservative Party (UK). .[6][7]
References
- ↑ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.
- ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth ISBN 978-0-319-23149-4
- ↑ Mylor Bridge Primary School; Retrieved April 2010
- ↑ GENUKI website; Mylor. Retrieved April 2010
- ↑ Cornwall Council website. Retrieved April 2010
- ↑ Politics.co.uk website; Retrieved April 2010
- ↑ BBC website; Election constituencies; Truro and falmouth. Retrieved April 2001
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