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Kea, Cornwall

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At Calenick and Killiow are 18th-century houses of two storeys. Calenick House contains remains of a much older building; it is of seven bays and there is a separate clock tower with a cupola, dated 1752. Killiow House is somewhat later and was extended c. 1850. The latter was once the home of
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A parish and a sub-district in Truro district, Cornwall. The parish lies on the Falmouth and Redruth railways, 2¼ miles SSW of Truro; is bounded, on the E, by the river Fal, on the N, by Kenwyn, on the W, by Gwennap; and contains parts of the chapelries of Baldhu, Chacewater, and Mithian. Real
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The church of St Kea at Old Kea was the parish church until All Hallows was built. Later, the church at Old Kea was pulled down and only the tower remains today. A small chapel now stands beside the ruined medieval tower and services are held there twice a month
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There is a school in the parish, Kea Community Primary School, which caters for 200 pupils aged between 4 and 11 years. The school stands at a crossroads half-a-mile (1 km) east of Kea village at
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reputedly landed at Old Kea on his first visit to Cornwall and established a church there, which was the parish church until replaced by All Hallows. His life is described in the medieval
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was a monastery probably at Kea of which little is known. "The mysterious land-owning monastery of St Cheus mentioned in Domesday (in Powder), 1085, possibly refers to Kea."—
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tournaments, for prizes were held in Kea in the 1800s. An example would be a tournament held at the school sports day on 15 July 1863 at St Kea church.
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Today, the parish is mainly agricultural, and is noted for giving its name to the damson-type Kea plum. It is bounded to the north by
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property £7,158 of which £1,234 are in mines. Pop(ulation) in 1861 3,949. Houses, 824. The manor belongs to Viscount Falmouth.
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including Baldhu , Bissoe , Calenick , Chapel , Come-to-Good , Coombe , Helston Water and Hugus)
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Kea village is situated just over one mile (1.6 km) southwest of Truro.
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is situated two miles (3 km) to the east on the west bank of the
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Kea Community Primary School buildings being extended in 2006
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Kea Community Primary School website; retrieved May 2010
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Theophila Gwatkin (née Palmer; 1757–1848) and
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Kea is located in Cornwall
Cornwall
Civil Parish, 2011
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South West
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