Places to see in ( Camelford - UK )
Places to see in ( Camelford - UK )
Camelford is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of Bodmin Moor. The town is approximately ten miles north of Bodmin and is governed by Camelford Town Council. Lanteglos-by-Camelford is the ecclesiastical parish in which the town is situated (not to be confused with Lanteglos-by-Fowey).
Camelford is in the North Cornwall parliamentary constituency represented by Scott Mann MP since 2015. Until 1974, the town was the administrative headquarters of Camelford Rural District. The two main industrial enterprises in the area are the slate quarry at Delabole and the cheese factory at Davidstow and there is a small industrial estate at Highfield. The A39 road (dubbed 'Atlantic Highway') passes through the town centre: a bypass has been discussed for many years. Camelford Station, some distance from the town, closed in 1966; the site was subsequently used as a cycling museum.
Camelford position near the highest land in Cornwall makes the climate rather wet. On 8 June 1957, 203 millimetres (8.0 in) of rain fell at Camelford. Roughtor is the nearest of the hills of Bodmin Moor to the town and numerous prehistoric remains can be found nearby as well. The Town Hall was built in 1806, but is now used as a branch public library. By the riverside is Enfield Park; hamlets in the parish include Helstone, Tregoodwell, Valley Truckle, Hendra, Lanteglos, Slaughterbridge, Tramagenna, Treforda and Trevia.
Camelford is the home of the North Cornwall Museum and Gallery which contains paintings and objects of local historical interest. To the northwest at Slaughterbridge is an Arthurian Centre and at nearby Camelford Station is the Cycling Museum (temporarily closed since 2010). To the east are the hills of Roughtor and Brown Willy and to the south the old parish churches at Lanteglos and Advent.
The main road through Camelford is the A39 (Atlantic Highway) and there is a thrice-daily Western Greyhound bus service from Newquay to Exeter via Launceston that serves the town. A tentatively-planned bypass is on hold; traffic problems continue to crowd the town especially during summer weekends. From 1893 to 1966 the town had a station on the North Cornwall Railway. The nearest national railway station is Bodmin Parkway, 14 miles distant.
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Tamar Valley: A Destination Guide from Visit Cornwall
Tamar Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) straddles the administrative border between Cornwall and Devon and covers around 75 square miles of the lower Tamar River (below Launceston) and its tributaries. See the stunning National Trust house Cotehele and the popular historic tourist destination of Mount Edgcumbe.
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100 years of WW1. Davidstow Airfield and Cornwall at War Museum
Davidstow Airfield and Cornwall at War Museum
Charlotte Dymond's grave
This video is of the grave of Charlotte Dymond in Davidstow churchyard at Davidstow, near Camelford, Cornwall, UK. Charlotte Dymond was murdered at Roughtor by her boyfriend, Matthew Weeks, who was caught at Plymouth and hanged at Bodmin jail. There is more information about this in the church. There is also a ballard which explains what happens.
The ballad is:
1
It was a Sunday evening
And in the April rain
That Charlotte went from our house
And never came home again.
13
Take me home! cried Charlotte,
‘I lie here in the pit!
A red rock rests upon my breasts
And my naked neck is split!’
2
Her shawl of diamond redcloth,
She wore a yellow gown,
She carried the green gauze handkerchief
She bought in Bodmin town.
14
Her skin was soft as sable,
Her eyes were wide as day,
Her hair was blacker than the bog
That licked her life away;
3
About her throat her necklace
And in her purse her pay:
The four silver shillings
She had at Lady Day.
15
Her cheeks were made out of honey,
Her throat was made of flame
Where all around the razor
Had written its red name.
4
In her purse four shillings
And in her purse her pride
As she walked out one evening
Her lover at her side.
16
As Matthew turned at Plymouth
About the tilting Hoe,
The cold and cunning constable
Up to him did go:
5
Out beyond the marshes
Where the cattle stand,
With her crippled lover
Limping at her hand.
17
‘I’ve come to take you, Matthew,
Unto the magistrate’s door.
Come quiet now, you pretty poor boy,
And you must know what for.’
6
Charlotte walked with Matthew
Through the Sunday mist,
Never saw the razor
Waiting at his wrist.
18
‘She is as pure,’ cried Matthew,
‘As is the early dew,
Her only stain it is the pain
That round her neck I drew!
7
Charlotte she was gentle
But they found her in the flood
Her Sunday beads among the reeds
Beaming with her blood.
19
‘She is as guiltless as the day
She sprang forth from her mother.
The only sin upon her skin
Is that she loved another.’
8
Matthew, where is Charlotte,
And wherefore has she flown?
For you walked out together
And now are come alone.
20
They took him off to Bodmin,
They pulled the prison bell,
They sent him smartly up to heaven
And dropped him down to hell.
9
Why do you not answer,
Stand silent as a tree,
Your Sunday worsted stockings
All muddied to the knee?
21
All through the granite kingdom
And on its travelling airs
Ask which of these two lovers
The most deserves your prayers.
10
Why do you mend your breast-pleat
With a rusty needle’s thread
And fall with fears and silent tears
Upon your single bed?
22
And your steel heart search, Stranger,
That you may pause and pray
For lovers who come not to bed
Upon their wedding day,
11
Why do you sit so sadly
Your face the colour of clay
And with a green gauze handkerchief
Wipe the sour sweat away?
23
But lie upon the moorland
Where stands the sacred snow
Above the breathing river,
And the salt sea-winds go.
12
Has she gone to Blisland
To seek an easier place,
And is that why your eye won’t dry
And blinds your bleaching face?
RAF Portreath 1941-1945
When the decision was made to ease the pressure on Group 10 Fighter Command Sector Headquarters station at RAF St Eval in the summer of 1940, land at Nancekuke near Portreath was chosen to be the site of its replacement. This video tells the story of RAF Portreath during World War Two and looks at what remains of the base from that time. The video visits the SAA stores, a domestic site, the WAAF camp and the Sector Operations Room and makes reference to a range of other locations.
Can you add any detail to the interpretation of the sites visited? Do you have any wartime photographs of RAF Portreath or its personnel? Did any of your relatives serve there? If so please leave a comment.
The music featured is Coming in on a wing and a prayer by Helen Clare and the Billy Thorburn Orchestra, The clouds will soon roll by by Elsie Carlisle with the Ambrose Orchestra, A pair of silver wings by Anne Shelton, Say a prayer for the boys over there by Deanna Durbin and Coming home my darling by Dorothy Squires.
Thanks for looking. Please check out my other videos on World War Two sites in Cornwall, especially the Decoy Site for RAF Portreath and Invasion at Portreath.
RAF Yatesbury Wiltshire. Abandoned & Creepy Place. The Oldest Airfield In Europe
RAF Yatesbury
First opened as an aerodrome in World War I, RAF Yatesbury continued operations in the interwar years before again taking on a major role in World War II. From 1936 onwards RAF Yatesbury and RAF Compton Bassett were major Radio and Radar Training Schools, RAF Townsend a satellite landing ground and RAF Cherhill was part No 27 Group, in Headquarters Technical Training Command. It was the oldest airfield in the whole of Europe and is the only airfield in the world that is still is such good condition. In the village church there are reminders of its military past, with a small number of war graves from both major conflicts.
After closure, the Radar and Wireless training school transferred to RAF Locking. The aircraft hangars and airfield, although now farmland, can still be seen from the A4. The buildings, site and surrounding area were featured in the video to the 1988 No.1 hit song Doctorin' the Tardis by The Timelords.
Camelford Walks 1
This is the River Camel walk to Fenteroon Bridge, Bluebell Wood and Advent Church.
WW2 lookout tower, Nr King's Lynn, Norfolk
I was recently tipped off about some bunkers and lookout tower nr King's Lynn so thought i'd go and check them out. This is inside the lookout tower, a building i'm surprised is still standing. Looked like it could fall any time....a great place to be inside then. No way up through that hatch sadly.
Upottery Airfield, HQ & Engineering Site .
A look around the HQ & Engineering site at RAF Upottery (Smeatharpe), Devon on 23/08/10.
Buildings include: the main stores, AML bomb teacher, station armoury, station HQ plus many more........
derelict building.MOD
This is the view from my hotel in Manila (see a theme yet?). The next video set will be of the jeepies and trikees that populate the public transport sector of the city. No commentary on those and not very interesting video really, but to see those jeepies, made me think of a clown car on steroids.