Long Rock
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Long Rock
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  Long Rock Location within Cornwall | |
| OS grid reference | SW497315 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PENZANCE |
| Postcode district | TR20 |
| Dialling code | 01736 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
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Long Rock (Cornish: Carrek Hyr) is a village in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Penzance and 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Marazion in the civil parish of Ludgvan. The village is named after the tidal Long Rock just offshore at grid reference SW498308.[1] Long Rock is on the shore of Mount's Bay at the centre of the three-mile beach which stretches from Penzance to Marazion. The beach is backed by a seawall along which runs the main line railway and the South West Coast Path.
A dual carriageway bypass carries the A30 road north of the village and the land beside the road has been extensively developed with light industry and a retail park. Penzance Heliport is situated between Long Rock and Penzance. The original heliport was demolished in 2014 and a Sainsburys supermarket, car park and trading estate was built on the site. In 2019 new heliport was built on a site opposite the heliport trading estate a hundred yards away from the original heliport and in the spring of 2020 commenced a scheduled service to the Scilly Isles.
Facilities
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The nearest primary schools are located in Gulval and Ludgvan, with the nearest secondary school, Humphry Davy School, in Penzance. Village facilities include a shop, post office, two pubs (one offering B & B), a care home, an equestrian and agricultural supplier, a hall which can be hired, two motorbike training places, a car rental business and several car sales businesses. The industrial estate contains a glass merchant, a computer repairer, a vet and a solar energy firm.
Long Rock Playing Field Association recently received a grant to install new play equipment. Penwith District Council built a new 'amenity area' in a field close to the A30.
Marazion Marsh, an RSPB nature reserve leased from Lord St Levan, is situated half-a-mile east of the village.[2]
The local community radio station is Coast FM (formerly Penwith Radio), which broadcasts on 96.5 and 97.2 FM.[3]
Transport
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Long Rock is the site of a locomotive shed. Formerly catering to steam locomotives, it is the most south-westerly depot on the former Great Western Railway's system. Now known as Penzance TMD, it is a refuelling and servicing depot for diesel locomotives and HST sets.[4]
Long Rock has regular bus services to Penzance and Truro and is on The Cornish Way network of cycle paths.
Cornish wrestling
[edit]William Couch Jeffery (1826-1899),[5] was from Long Rock and was champion middleweight[6] of Cornwall for a quarter of a century including the 1840s and 1850s.[7][8][9] He won many prizes in Cornwall as well as London.[9] He was initially a miner and then a market gardener and fisherman.[5] He spent some time in Australia and it was said that he had beaten the Australian champion wrestler, who was an Irishman after walking 160 miles to the match.[10][9]
References
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- ^ OS Explorer Land's End (Map). Southampton: Ordnance Survey. 2015. ISBN 978 0 319 24304 6.
- ^ "Marazion Marsh". RSPB. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Volunteer run Penwith Radio to change its name to Coast FM". falmouthpacket.co.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
- ^ Bennett, Alan (1988). The Great Western Railway in West Cornwall. Runpast Publications. ISBN 1-870754-12-3.
- ^ a b Death of a Cornish wrestler, Cornubian and Redruth Times, 3 November 1899, p5.
- ^ Wrestlers of the past, Cornishman - Thursday 28 January 1904, p5.
- ^ Wrestling at Redruth, The Cornish Telegraph, 15 May 1884, p8.
- ^ Wrestling at Redruth, Cornishman - Thursday 15 May 1884, p5.
- ^ a b c Death of a manly wrestler, Cornishman, 9 November 1899, p2.
- ^ Death of a Cornish wrestler, and respected man, Cornishman - Thursday 02 November 1899, p5.
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