Mylor Bridge
Mylor Bridge (Cornish: Ponsnowyth) 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.
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. The parish church of Saint Mylor is in the nearby village of Mylor Churchtown.
Mylor Bridge lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Governance
The village is represented as Penryn East and Mylor on Cornwall Council. It was formerly in the Falmouth and Camborne parliamentary electoral constituency; since 2010 it has been in the Truro and Falmouth constituency. Notably, the former Member for Parliament (MP) for Truro and Falmouth, Sarah Newton, lives on Church Road in Mylor Bridge.
References
- ^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine. 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
- ^ "Truro and Falmouth (Parliamentary Constituency) - Cornish Place Names".
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