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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Looe Island, The Lizard, Tor, Civil parishes in Cornwall, South West Coast Path, Doom Bar, Rocking stone, Flora and fauna of Cornwall, Boscastle flood of 2004, List of civil parishes in Cornwall/version 2, Geology of Cornwall, Logan Rock, Rosemanowes Quarry, Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, List of former administrative divisions in Cornwall, Luxulyan Valley, Poldice mine, Forgotten Corner of Cornwall, Lizard Point, Cornwall, Trewhiddle, Rocky Valley, Carbis Bay, Runnel Stone, Pentire Head, Carlyon Bay, Antiqua maneria, St Ives Bay, Fore Street, Crackington Haven, Gwennap Head, Meneage, Brown Willy effect, Stepper Point, Gribben Head, Hingston Down, The Loe, The Manacles, Colliford Lake, Rame Peninsula, Polbathic, Trevose Head, Cribbar, Saints' Way, The Carracks, Kernick, Churchtown, Cornwall, Porth Hellick Down, Prussia Cove, Trevenson, Cot Valley, Bake Fishing Lakes, Hayle Estuary, Brisons, Kenidjack Valley, Penlee Point, Rame, Seven Stones reef, Ogo-dour Cove, Bass Point, Pednathise Head, Cripp's Cove. Excerpt: A civil parish is a subnational entity, forming the lowest unit of local government in England. There are 218 civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Cornwall (Cornish: ), the county effectively being entirely parished; only the unpopulated Wolf Rock is unparished. At the 2001 census, there were 501,267 people living in the 218 parishes, accounting for 100.0 per cent of the county's population. The final unparished areas of mainland Cornwall, around St Austell, were parished on 1 April 2009, to coincide with the structural changes to local government in England. Parishes arose from Church of England divisions, and were originally purely ecclesiastical divisions. Over time they acquired civil administration powers. The Highways Act 1555 made parishes responsible for the upkeep of roads. Every ad...
