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    Towans, Mexico Towans, Common Towans, Phillack Towans, Upton Towans and Gwithian Towans. Much of the area falls within the Gwithian to Mexico Towans SSSI...
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    Porthtowan (redirect from Wheal Towan)
    the Celtic Sea in the Atlantic Ocean. It lies between Godrevy Head (with the Godrevy Towans) and St Agnes Head, north of the village of St Agnes. The...
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    -5.690 Carn Towan (Cornish: Karn Tewyn) is a coastal hamlet northeast of Sennen Cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. Carn Towan is in the civil parish...
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    discolouration caused by mining effluent. The river's earlier name was Dowr Coner. Gwithian Towans cover the site of a Bronze Age farm which has been excavated...
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    beneath the viaduct on the site of the town's first railway station. In 1888, the National Explosive works were established on Upton Towans (giving it the alternative...
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    "Tewynblustri" (the spelling changed as Cornish evolved and is now rendered as "Towan Blystra"). Towan (or Tewynn) means dune or sand hill in Cornish, but the meaning...
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  • Gordon Towan (born 24 March 1954) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Towan spent...
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    Towan Head (Cornish: Penn Tewyn) is a headland one mile west of Newquay on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is at the western...
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  • precedes building of Victory Inn. Location of the Settlement of Towan Cross: see Manor of Tynwarnhaille map. Towan Cross and NT Wheal Charlotte featured at...
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  • Towan is a locality located in the 'Murray-Mallee' Ward of the Rural City of Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia. Towan post office opened on 15 October 1915...
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    into the wide sweep of St Ives Bay, where many walkers drop down onto the sands at low tide, the path follows the line of the sand dunes or Towans as they...
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  • Wenn, St Winnow Talland, Talskiddy, Telegraph, Temple, Tencreek, Terras, The Towans, Thorne, Three Hammers, Three Holes Cross, Threemilestone, Threewaters...
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  • to Liverpool" "The Trees" "A Woman of Talent" "The Cruise of the Morwenna" "A Tall Tale" "The Old Man of the Towans" "The Tune" "The Last Laugh" Jaffery...
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  • February 2022. Yoo Chung-hee (9 July 2018). "신예 김도완, 영화 '걸캅스' 출연…위하준·주우재와 호흡". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). Retrieved 16 February 2022. Park, Gwi-lim...
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    bounded by two promontories, Towan Head to the north and Pentire Point East (not to be confused with Pentire Head) to the south. The straight sandy beach faces...
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    on Fore Street in 1860, the lifeboat being taken down the street to the beach when it was needed. A slipway was built at Towan Head in 1895 with an inclination...
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    there. The eastern coast of the bay is a three-mile (5 km) unbroken sandy beach backed by a substantial system of coastal dunes known as The Towans which...
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    buried beneath the sands of Gwithian Towans at Gwithian. The Manor of Alverton, with an area of 64 Cornish acres, gave its name to the second largest...
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  • from 1943 of genuine authenticity, showing a scene of holidaymakers on Towan Beach in Newquay, Cornwall, was uploaded to Twitter in November 2018 by...
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  • the Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990. Collingwood were one of the foundation clubs for the inaugural...
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    small private estate on the coast of Mount's Bay and to the east of Cudden Point, west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Part of the area is designated as...
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  • List of islands of Cornwall (category Lists of islands of the United Kingdom)
    Island Eddystone Rocks Towan Island, Newquay Asparagus Island Mullion Island St Clement's Isle, Mousehole Lundy Drake's Island The Mewstone Wembury You...
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    overlooking Fistral Beach and Towan Head. Silvanus Trevail's Great Western Hotel at Newquay, completed in 1879, was the first in a string of hotels designed...
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    Cove, on the towans at Whitesand Bay, Cornwall for over one hundred years and two specimens were taken from Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan in the 19th century...
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    along the south coast, sometimes backed by large expanses of towans or dunes such as near Par. The Isles of Scilly are the largest archipelago in the British...
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    Lop Nur (redirect from The Lop Nur)
    area in the latter part of the 20th century. A mummy called the Beauty of Loulan was found at a cemetery site on the bank of Töwän River. The Xiaohe Cemetery...
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    the Cornwall Film Fund, the Cornwall Film Festival, and the production company Mundic Nation. Make Up (2019) - St Ives Bay Holiday Park, Upton Towans...
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    extended. (The chantry itself was abolished in 1543.) There are holy wells at Menacuddle and Towan. A new organ was placed on the north side of the chancel...
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    of the towans and overlooking the West Cornwall Golf Club. Lelant was a seaport in the Middle Ages, but the trade was lost to St Ives when the estuary...
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    Cornish engine (category History of the steam engine)
    boilers of the engines, improving the duty to more than 60 million at Wheal Hope and later to almost 80 million at Wheal Towan. Nevertheless, the best duty...
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