Mylor Bridge

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Mylor Bridge
Mylor Bridge
OS grid referenceSW804363
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Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townFALMOUTH
Postcode districtTR11
Dialling code01326
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
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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

  1. ^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth ISBN 978-0-319-23149-4
  3. ^ Mylor Bridge Primary School; Retrieved April 2010
  4. ^ GENUKI website; Mylor. Retrieved April 2010
  5. ^ Cornwall Council website. Retrieved April 2010
  6. ^ Politics.co.uk website; Retrieved April 2010
  7. ^ BBC website; Election constituencies; Truro and falmouth. Retrieved April 2001