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[[Image:Mitchell, Cornwall.jpg|thumb|Mitchell - the former A30]] |
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'''Mitchell''' (also known as '''Michael''' and '''St Michael's''') is a village in [[Cornwall]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]], on the [[A30 road|A30]]. The original name was Medeschole and the first recorded mention of the village was in a court case in 1234, establishing the legal status of an annual market on St Francis's Day. |
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From the Middle Ages on, the [[Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)|borough of Mitchell]] elected two members to the [[Unreformed House of Commons]], but was disenfranchised by the [[Reform Act 1832]]. |
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The A30 By-pass was completed around 1990, with the only through road going to [[St Newlyn East]]. |
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Facilities in the village are limited to a public house, a 16th century coaching inn called the Plume of Feathers, a telephone box, a post box and a bus stop. The history of the village goes back to the stone ages, flint arrow heads have been found in local fields. At the top of the hill at [[Carland Cross]] there are Iron Age burial mounds (Burrows). Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] was an MP for Mitchell, as was Sir Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington). The village has doubled in size over the last ten years. |
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==See also== |
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[[Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)]] |
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[[Category:Villages in Cornwall]] |
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