Wadebridge
Wadebridge ( Cornish Ponsrys; " ford Bridge") is a town in the north of the English county of Cornwall. She was the administrative seat of 1195.17 km ² of former North Cornwall District with 86,300 inhabitants ( 2007 ). The city itself has 6351 inhabitants ( 2001).
Geography
Location
Wadebridge is located at the southeast beginning of the estuary of the River Camel, the City Camelford rises north-east and flows Trebetherick between Pentire Point and Stepper Point at Padstow Bay in the Atlantic Ocean. Here, the peak of the tidal current of the Atlantic Ocean extends to near the eastern edge of the urban area of Wadebridge at Egloshayle district. At low tide ( low tide), the river falls almost dry, so he is not then navigable.
The open sea of the Atlantic Ocean begins ten kilometers northwest of the center of Wadebridge. Near the mouth of the River Camel is the small town of Padstow, about eight miles from Wadebridge. Other nearby cities are Bodmin, eight kilometers to the southeast, and Camelford fourteen kilometers north-east. The capital of the county of Cornwall, Truro is 32 miles from Wadebridge and is located southwest of the city.
Boroughs
The town of Wadebridge consists of the districts of St Breock, Trevanson, Guinea Port, Wade, White Rock and Egloshayle.
Climate
In Wadebridge prevails as in the whole of Cornwall, a maritime temperate climate, where there is year-round humid and the winters are very mild.
History
One of the first mentions of Wadebridge, as a market settlement Wade ( from Old English wyeth for " ford " ), dates from the year 1313. At that time the present city area belonged to the communities Egloshayle and St. Breock both sides of the Camel River each with their own churches, St. Michael's on the west side and King's chapel east of the river.
In the year 1468 the instigation of the parish priest of Egloshayle, Thomas Lovibond, built The Old Bridge (the " Old Bridge" ), completed, financed from the profits of the sale of wool produced in the area by the farmer on the wool market in calf. The 320 feet ( 97.5 meters) was eponymous for the now Wadebridge place called long and 17 arches built stone bridge. Today, the bridge consists of only 14 sheets.
As of September 30, 1834 decreed Wadebridge on a railway connection along the Camel upriver on Boscarne after Wenfordbridge with a branch to Bodmin. According to a study from 1831, initiated by the local landowner of Pencarrow, Sir William Molesworth, the railway was built at a cost of £ 35,000. The Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway was the first public railway line in Cornwall and one of the first in the world, opened nine years after the first steam-powered railway passenger transportation, the Stockton & Darlington Railway, north east England.
On the Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway first sand from the estuary of the Camel was transported as a fertilizer inland. After the purchase by the London & South Western Railway and the expansion of the route network in the 19th century, the railway line was closed in Wadebridge on January 30, 1967 to the passenger. Today runs on the route of the former railway line of the Camel Trail, a about 17.3 miles ( 27.8 km ) long hiking and cycling trail.
The city hall was built in the period from 1886 to 1888 and opened on May 31, 1888. The cost of £ 3,000 were contested by Sir Paul Molesworth, which is why the first later used by the city, including from the meetinghouse first Molesworth Hall said. There is a painted by V. Harvey of St. Mabyn mural depicting the bridge of the Old Bridge on the back of the Town Hall.