Carlyon

{{Short description|Civil parish in Cornwall, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{for|the surname|Carlyon (surname)}} {{Infobox UK place | static_image = Cliffs, Carlyon Bay - geograph.org.uk - 1238013.jpg | static_image_caption = Cliffs at Carlyon Bay | official_name = Carlyon | civil_parish = Carlyon | country = England | region = South West England | coordinates = {{Coord|50.33724|-4.73742|display=title}} | os_grid_reference = | post_town = | postcode_area = | postcode_district = | dial_code = | unitary_england = Cornwall | lieutenancy_england = Cornwall | hide_services = Yes | population = 1,577 | population_ref = (Parish, 2021)<ref name=2021census>{{cite web |title=2021 Census Parish Profiles |url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp |website=NOMIS |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=31 March 2025}} (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)</ref> | area_total_km2 = 4.318 | website = }} '''Carlyon''' ({{langx|kw|Karleghyon}},<ref>[http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515091028/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 |date=2013-05-15 }} : [http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515091028/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 |date=May 15, 2013 }}. Cornish Language Partnership.</ref> meaning ''fort of rock-slabs'') is a civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies immediately east of the town of St Austell and has a coast onto Carlyon Bay, part of the larger St Austell Bay. The settlements in the parish are Carlyon Bay and Tregrehan Mills. At the 2021 census the population of the parish was 1,577.

==Geography== The parish is part coastal and part rural in character. Carlyon Bay, the principal settlement in the parish, is approximately {{convert|2|miles|km|0}} east of the centre of St Austell.<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-22938-5}}</ref>

==Governance== thumb|Tregrehan Methodist Church There are two tiers of local government covering Carlyon, at parish and unitary authority level: Carlyon Parish Council and Cornwall Council. The parish council generally meets at Tregrehan Methodist Church.<ref>{{cite web |title=Meetings, Agendas and Minutes |url=https://www.carlyon-pc.gov.uk/Full_Council_29202.aspx |website=Carlyon Parish Council |access-date=17 September 2025}}</ref>

===Administrative history=== The area that is now the civil parish of Carlyon was historically part of the ancient parish of St Austell. In 1894 the Carlyon area and other parts of St Austell parish outside the urban district of St Austell (which initially just covered the town itself) became a separate civil parish called St Austell Rural.<ref>{{cite web |title=St Austell Rural Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10122132 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=14 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Diagram of Cornwall showing administrative boundaries, 1921 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/241241896 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=15 September 2025}}</ref> St Austell Rural parish was abolished in 1934 and absorbed into St Austell Urban District.<ref name=UDVoB/>

St Austell Urban District was abolished in 1968, when it merged with the neighbouring borough of Fowey to become a short-lived borough called St Austell with Fowey.<ref name=UDVoB>{{cite web |title=St Austell Urban District |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10108410 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=14 September 2025}}</ref> The borough of St Austell with Fowey was abolished six years later in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, when the area became part of the new borough of Restormel.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972|year=1972|number=2039|accessdate=3 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=551|accessdate=3 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=District Councils and Boroughs |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1974/mar/28/district-councils-and-boroughs#S5CV0871P0_19740328_CWA_145 |website=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) |access-date=4 December 2021 |date=28 March 1974}}</ref>

The area of the former borough of St Austell with Fowey became an unparished area as a result of the 1974 reforms. In 1983 five new civil parishes were created from parts of the pre-1974 borough, but the area around St Austell, including the Carlyon area, remained unparished until 2009.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Restormel (Parishes) Order 1983 |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20221202003052mp_/https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/12458/restormel-parishes-order-1983.pdf |website=Local Government Boundary Commission for England |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=11 September 2025}}</ref>

Restormel was abolished in 2009. Cornwall County Council then took on district-level functions, making it a unitary authority, and was renamed Cornwall Council.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Cornwall (Structural Change) Order 2008|year=2008|number=491|access-date=19 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009|year=2009|number=837|article=3}}</ref> As part of the 2009 reforms the remaining unparished area around St Austell was split into four new civil parishes: St Austell, St Austell Bay, Pentewan Valley, and Carlyon.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7766589.stm|title=Town and parishes to get councils|work=BBC News website|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 December 2008 | date=5 December 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Restormel (Parishes) Order 2008 |url=https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20221202003053mp_/https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/12671/the-restormel-parishes-order-2008.pdf |website=Local Government Boundary Commission for England |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=15 September 2025}}</ref>

==References== {{Portal|Cornwall}}

Category:Civil parishes in Cornwall Category:Beaches of Cornwall Category:Populated coastal places in Cornwall