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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Carlyon > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Carlyon.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyon > Source revision: 1311840119 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/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](/source/Cornwall_(district)) | lieutenancy_england = [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall) | hide_services = Yes | population = 1,577 | population_ref = (Parish, 2021){{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.) | area_total_km2 = 4.318 | website = }} '''Carlyon''' ({{langx|kw|Karleghyon}},[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](/source/Cornish_Language_Partnership). meaning ''fort of rock-slabs'') is a [civil parish](/source/civil_parish) in [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall), England, United Kingdom. It lies immediately east of the town of [St Austell](/source/St_Austell) and has a coast onto Carlyon Bay, part of the larger [St Austell Bay](/source/St_Austell_Bay). The settlements in the parish are [Carlyon Bay](/source/Carlyon_Bay) and [Tregrehan Mills](/source/Tregrehan_Mills). At the [2021 census](/source/2021%E2%80%932022_United_Kingdom_censuses) 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](/source/St_Austell).Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-22938-5}} ==Governance== thumb|Tregrehan Methodist Church There are two tiers of local government covering Carlyon, at [parish](/source/Parish_council_(England)) and [unitary authority](/source/Unitary_authorities_of_England) level: Carlyon Parish Council and [Cornwall Council](/source/Cornwall_Council). The parish council generally meets at Tregrehan Methodist Church.{{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}} ===Administrative history=== The area that is now the civil parish of Carlyon was historically part of the [ancient parish](/source/ancient_parish) of St Austell. In 1894 the Carlyon area and other parts of St Austell parish outside the [urban district](/source/Urban_district_(England_and_Wales)) of St Austell (which initially just covered the town itself) became a separate [civil parish](/source/civil_parish) called St Austell Rural.{{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}}{{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}} St Austell Rural parish was abolished in 1934 and absorbed into St Austell Urban District. St Austell Urban District was abolished in 1968, when it merged with the neighbouring borough of [Fowey](/source/Fowey) to become a short-lived borough called [St Austell with Fowey](/source/St_Austell_with_Fowey).{{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}} The borough of St Austell with Fowey was abolished six years later in 1974 under the [Local Government Act 1972](/source/Local_Government_Act_1972), when the area became part of the new borough of [Restormel](/source/Restormel).{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972|year=1972|number=2039|accessdate=3 March 2023}}{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973|year=1973|number=551|accessdate=3 March 2023}}{{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)](/source/Hansard) |access-date=4 December 2021 |date=28 March 1974}} The area of the former borough of St Austell with Fowey became an [unparished area](/source/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.{{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}} Restormel was abolished in 2009. Cornwall County Council then took on district-level functions, making it a unitary authority, and was renamed Cornwall Council.{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Cornwall (Structural Change) Order 2008|year=2008|number=491|access-date=19 February 2024}}{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009|year=2009|number=837|article=3}} 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](/source/St_Austell_Bay), [Pentewan Valley](/source/Pentewan_Valley), and Carlyon.{{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}}{{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}} ==References== {{Portal|Cornwall}} {{reflist}} {{Cornwall|state=collapsed}} {{St Austell and Newquay CP navigation box}} Category:Civil parishes in Cornwall Category:Beaches of Cornwall Category:Populated coastal places in Cornwall {{Restormel-geo-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Carlyon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyon) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyon?action=history)). 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