Paul, Cornwall
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Coordinates: 50°05′24″N 5°32′49″W / 50.090°N 5.547°W
| Paul | |
| Cornish: Pawl | |
 Paul
Paul shown within Cornwall |
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| Population | 234 (Civil Parish, 2001) |
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| OS grid reference | SW462269 |
| Unitary authority | Cornwall |
| Ceremonial county | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PENZANCE |
| Postcode district | TR19 |
| Dialling code | 01736 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | St Ives |
| List of places: UK • England • Cornwall | |
Paul (Cornish: Pawl) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated two miles (3 km) south of Penzance and one mile (1.6 km) south of Newlyn[1].
The village of Paul is represented on Penzance Town Council. For elections to Cornwall Council (the unitary authority) Paul is within the three-member single Penzance Electoral division.
Like many Cornish communities Paul has its own community celebration. Paul Feast is held on the Sunday nearest 10 October every year when the village is decorated and a civic service takes place on the Sunday of the feast itself led by the Mayor of Penzance. The feast may be an example of the Celtic practice of celebrating Samhain or Allantide[citation needed].
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[edit] History
Much of the history of Paul is connected with its parish church. The church itself is said to have been founded in 490, a very uncertain date and not documented, by Paul Aurelian, a Welsh saint known in Brittany as Paol Aurelian in Breton. There is no historical evidence to support his ever coming to West Penwith. He was founder of the cathedral at Saint-Pol-de-Léon, the city named after him. However this church could have been dedicated to Paul the Apostle, or Paulinus of York, there is no documentary evidence to prove any of these three Saint Pauls was the original dedicatee of the church. It was only named 'St. Pol-de-Leon' in 1907 and is probably connected with Henry Jenner who (with W C Borlase) opposed alleged 'Englishness' and stamp consistent spelling of Cornish place names on OS maps.
The first documented name for Paul Church comes from the registers of Bishop Bronescombe, when on 2 May 1259 the first recorded priest was installed, as Rector in his own right, in the 'Ecclesie Sancti Paulini'--Church of St. Paulinus.
Paul village, original name 'Brewinney' and its church have a long association with Mousehole and the church has served as this community's parish church since its inception. Paul was one of the communities along with Mousehole, Newlyn, and Penzance to be destroyed in the Spanish raid of 1595 carried out by Carlos de Amésquita[2].
Langdon (1896) recorded the existence of five stone crosses in the parish.
[edit] Geography
To the north of the civil parish is Chyenhal Moor, a Site of Special Scientific Interest noted for its biological interest.[3]
[edit] Cornish language (memorials)
Within the village churchyard there is a memorial to Dolly Pentreath, reputedly and disputedly the last native speaker of Cornish. This memorial was placed there by Louis Lucien Bonaparte, a relative of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Vicar of Paul in the 19th century.
The Cornish language writers Nicholas Boson, Thomas Boson and John Boson are all buried in Paul Churchyard, and a monument in the church by John Boson (to Arthur Hutchens, d. 1709) is the only surviving lapidary inscription in traditional Cornish.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 9780319231487
- ^ West Penwith Resources - The Spanish Attack - 1595
- ^ "Chyenhal Moor". Natural England. 1985. http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002966.pdf. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ Spriggs, Matthew, ‘Boson family (per. c.1675–1730)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 12 Oct 2007
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