Anderton, Cornwall

Anderton

Anderton and Millbrook Lake
Anderton
Anderton shown within Cornwall
OS grid reference SX 431 519
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Torpoint
Postcode district PL10
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Cornwall
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England

Anderton is a settlement in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, located at grid reference SW 431 519. There are also places called Anderton in the parishes of Launcells and St Juliot.[1] This Anderton is according to the Post Office at the 2011 Census included in the civil parish of Maker-with-Rame.

Anderton is part of Millbrook, a village on the Rame Peninsula. It is situated beside the tidal portion of Millbrook Lake on the Tamar estuary opposite Plymouth.[2]

Captain Charles Bampfield Yule RN, explorer and author of the Admiralty Australia Directory, died in Anderton in 1878.

References

  1. ↑ Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 19
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3

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