Padstow, Cornwall - c.1900 - historic view on museum postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Padstow, Cornwall - c.1900
• Publisher:  The Royal Instituttion of Cornwall, County Museum, Truro, c.1970s
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Padstow (Cornish: Lannwedhenek) is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town is situated on the west bank of the River Camel estuary approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Wadebridge, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Bodmin and 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Newquay.^[1] The population of Padstow civil parish was 5,203 in the 2001 census.^[2]

Padstow was originally named Petroc-stow, Petroc-stowe, or 'Petrock's Place', after the Welsh missionary Saint Petroc, who landed at Trebetherick around AD 500. After his death a monastery (Lanwethinoc, the church of Wethinoc an earlier holy man) was established here which was of great importance until ""Petroces stow"" (probably Padstow) was raided by the Vikings in 981, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.^[3] Whether as a result of this attack or later the monks moved inland to Bodmin taking with them the relics of St Petroc.^[4] The cult of St Petroc was important both in Padstow and Bodmin.

In the medieval period Padstow was commonly called Aldestowe ('old place' in contrast to Bodmin, the 'new place').^[5] or Hailemouth. The modern Cornish form Lannwedhenek derives from Lanwethinoc and in a simpler form appears in the name of the Lodenek Press, a publisher based in Padstow.

The seal of the borough of Padstow was a ship with three masts the sails furled and an anchor hanging from the bow, with the legend ""Padstow."" ^[6]

type=printed

city/ region=padstow

period=post-war (1945-present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100 mm)