Padstow
Padstow ( Cornish Lannwedhenek ) is a small port town in the north of the English county of Cornwall. It is the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality. The municipality has 3162 inhabitants ( 2001).
- 3.1 building 3.1.1 St. Petroc 's Church
- 3.1.2 Padstow Museum
- 3.1.3 Prideaux Place
- 3.2.1 ' Obby ' Oss festival
- 3.2.2 Mummer's Day
Geography
Location
Padstow is located on the western shore of the estuary of the River Camel, which rises north-east of Camelford and flows Trebetherick between Pentire Point and Stepper Point at Padstow Bay in the Atlantic Ocean. The accessibility of the port of Padstow is strongly dependent on tidal current of the Atlantic.
At low tide ( low tide), the sandbars are visible as free beach cases before the village and larger ships can reach the port at this time by the fairway not start. A particularly dangerous shoal, the sandbar Doom Bar ( " fate Bank"), is right on the Camel estuary in the Atlantic Ocean east of Point Steppers. It was already many wrecked ships.
The open sea of the Atlantic Ocean begins about four kilometers north of the port of Padstow. Southeast of the port city is located approximately five miles from the town of Wadebridge, capital of the district North Cornwall. Other nearby cities are Bodmin, sixteen kilometers to the southeast, and Newquay, sixteen kilometers southwest. The capital of the county of Cornwall, Truro is 32 miles from Padstow and is located southwest of the city.
The municipality of the village of Trevone Padstow belong to the Atlantic coast and some small hamlet in the vicinity. In addition to the coast in the north to the Cape Stepper Point Padstow is bordered to the west of St. Merryn, to the south St Ervan and Little Petherick (also St. Petroc Minor), southeast of St. Issey and in the east, separated by the river Camel, at St. Minver.
Climate
In Padstow prevails as in the whole of Cornwall, a maritime temperate climate, where there is year-round humid and the winters are very mild.
History
The area around Padstow has been inhabited since 2000 BC. During this time, the Bell Beaker culture spread along the coasts of Cornwall. Grave chambers of this culture were discovered at the Harlyn Bay west of Trevone. From the 1st century BC, the Veneti settled at today's Padstow and built fortifications on the peninsula. The Veneti were a Celtic tribe of the Gallic Little Britain, now Brittany in western France.
In the 6th century AD, a native of South Wales missionary Petrock (also Petroc, cornish Petrek ) founded in the settlement Lanwethinoc, later Padstow, a monastery. The now revered as a local saint Petrock had studied theology in Ireland and lived from the year 518 to 30 years as abbot of his monastery in Lanwethinoc, which was later named after him Petrocston, and operating from there the missionary Southwest of England to Christianity. The monastery, including the church was destroyed in the year 981 at an incident of the Danes at the time of the Danish king Harold.
The importance of the 564 who died in Bodmin Saints Petrock Padstow is seen next to the effect of activity of the monastery in the derivation of the name of the city from the missionary. The name Padstow goes back to the original " The holy place of St. Petrock ". Instead of the monastery name " Petrocston " the place was in the 14th century, the English name " Stowe " as a reference to the " holy place " in the name of St. Petrock as " Petroc 's Stowe " appended. It was formed later tonight's " Padstow ", in which the name of the major Cornish saints lives on.
The monastery was moved to its destruction by the Danes to Bodmin, Padstow which came under the Priory of Bodmin. From the second church built as a substitute only the foundation of the church tower remained. The church preserved to the present day St. Petroc, Padstow was built in 1420-1450, according to other data to 1415th yet as there was the monastery in Padstow received this as a " holy place " by King Æthelstan the right of asylum, which it criminals allowed here to find protection from arrest, which until the Reformation had stock. Economically, the city lived in the Middle Ages from the trade and fisheries. About the harbor consisted trade relations to Ireland and Brittany, to fulfillment the Guild of St. Petroc was founded.
In the time of the Reformation, the church lost control of Padstow and their lands passed into the possession of the Prideaux family. This built late 16th century on the former grounds of the convent a country manor house and surrounded it with one of the oldest game reserves in the country. The house remained until today as the family seat in their possession. However, it is open in the afternoon on some days of the week to visit. Also at the end of the 16th century lived temporarily Sir Walter Raleigh, an English navigator, explorer and writer, in Padstow. In his capacity as Rector of Cornwall his Court House was on the river bank of the Camel central point for collection of taxes and fees. The house still stands today, but is not available in private ownership and the public.
In the 17th century, when the mines expanded in Cornwall, was the port of Padstow shipment of copper ore to Bristol and the export of slate from the quarries near the river Camel. During the 19th century, the shipbuilding industry experienced a boom and a number of shipyards was established. Reason was the thriving fishing industry and the increasing movement of goods. From Cornwall products such as fish, wheat, barley, oats, cheese and minerals were carried out progressively, whereas it imported, among other goods from Ireland, France, Wales, Scandinavia and Russia. To secure the port of Padstow and this became the first lifeboat stationed before 1827. The location of the boat is now at Trevose Head, the open sea north-west of the city.
In 1899, Padstow got a connection to the railway. The city was the end point of Halwill over Launceston and Wadebridge, extending 84 km long stretch of the North Cornwall Railway, a subsidiary of the London & South Western Railway. In Halwill was connected to the main line of the London & South Western Railway and so on Exeter a continuous rail link to the capital London. The railway line was built for economic reasons, to connect the port promoted the beginning of the emergence of tourism in the city.
During the 20th century there was a decline in the fishing industry, which was further promoted by the closure of the railway line to Padstow in 1967. The tourism has gained more and more importance for the city. Thus, the former railway line has been converted into a walking and cycling trail, the now 27.8 km long Camel Trail to Bodmin via Wadebridge. In the harbor there is a small range of commercial shipping and fishing established himself somewhat recovered by local consumption and the surrounding area.
Culture and sights
Building
St. Petroc 's Church
The Anglican Church of St. Petroc of Padstow is dedicated to St. Petrock, who lived here from 518 and 564 died in Bodmin. It is located on Church Street and consists of a choir, the nave, a north and south aisle one. The bell tower with its six bells was erected on the west side of the building. Next to the tower is the family mausoleum Prideaux Brune -.
According to the registers created by Bishop Walter Branscombe of the church on 28 September 1415 consecrated by the Bishop of Exeter, Edmund Stafford.
Padstow Museum
The small museum near the port displays a collection of artifacts from the history of Padstow over the past two centuries. It was founded in 1971 under the leadership of retired boat builder Bill Lindsay of residents of the city. The museum is located on Market beach, about 50 meters from the port.
Prideaux Place
On the north- western outskirts of Padstow at the end of Church Street rises surrounded by a 16 acre park the house of the Prideaux family. The Elizabethan manor was built in 1592 on a "E "-shaped floor plan. The two-story building can be visited on guided tours.
Festivals
' Obby ' Oss festival
The celebration on May 1 with the actual name " Hobby Horse " ( cornish " Hobihors ", for " hobbyhorse " english ) begins at midnight with the singing of " Morning Song " by the people of Padstow. The place is decorated around a Maypole with flowers and fresh green. On the day dancing all dressed in black and provided with gruesome masks residents through the streets of the city, the " ' Obby ' Ossë ", depicting stylized horse, driven by " teasers ", clubs swinging men. At the end of the day the crowd sings the death of the " ' Obby ' Oss " until the resurrection on the night of 1 May of the next year. The origins of the festival are unclear, but the signal is fed back to an ancient fertility rite, perhaps the Celtic Beltane festival.
Mummer's Day
Mummer's Day or Darky Day is a tradition on Boxing Day and New Year's Day to sing in a procession through the town minstrel songs. The faces are painted black. The custom was originally developed from pagan Mitwinterfeste ( Yule ) in Cornwall.