St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia, meaning "St Ia's cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England.The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea.In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular …

St Ives (Kornisch Porth Ia [KK], Porth Ya [UCR]) ist eine Stadt in der Grafschaft Cornwall in England und zählt etwa 11.000 Einwohner. Der Name leitet sich von der kornischen Heiligen Ia ab, nach welcher die Kirche im Ort, St Ia’s Church, benannt ist.St Ives ist als beliebter Ferienort und Künstlerkolonie bekannt.

St Ives is a parliamentary constituency covering the western end of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The constituency has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Derek Thomas, a Conservative MP.. The area's voters produced the 22nd closest result in the 2017 general election; a winning margin of 312 votes. Since 1992, the same locally …

St Ives, Cornwall, one of the two most likely settings of the riddle, the other being St Ives, Cambridgeshire. "As I was going to St Ives" (Roud 19772) is a traditional English-language nursery rhyme in the form of a riddle. The most common modern version is:

Tate St Ives: St Ives: Cornwall: Art: Work by modern British artists, including work of the St Ives School: Tintagel Old Post Office: Tintagel: Cornwall: Philatelic: Operated by the National Trust, 19th century period post office in a 14th-century yeoman's farmhouse Tolgus …

Celtic Christianity was a feature of Cornwall and many Cornish Saints are commemorated in legends, churches and placenames.. Traditionally, the Cornish have been non-conformists in religion. In 1549, the Prayer Book Rebellion caused the deaths of thousands of people from Devon and Cornwall. The Methodism of John Wesley also proved to be very popular with the working …

Etymology. The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *ner-, meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word borealis comes from the Greek boreas "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was …

Bodmin Moor is the source of several of Cornwall's rivers: they are mentioned here anti-clockwise from the south. The River Fowey rises at a height of 290 m (950 ft) and flows through Lostwithiel and into the Fowey estuary.. The River Tiddy rises near Pensilva and flows southeast to its confluence with the River Lynher (the Lynher flows generally south-east until it joins the …