50°09′12″N 5°02′08″W / 50.15333°N 5.03556°W / 50.15333; -5.03556 Carrick Roads (Cornish: Dowr Carrek, meaning "rock anchorage") is the estuary of the...
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numerous carrick bends molded in relief. Or the name may come from Carrick Roads—a large natural anchorage by Falmouth in Cornwall, England. The name...
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Look up Carrick or carrick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Carrick is an Anglicised version of creag/carraig, Gaelic for "rock", and may refer to:...
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against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the Carrick Roads waterway at the mouth of the River Fal. The original, circular keep...
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Falmouth and Penryn, and the Truro Rural District. It was named after the Carrick Roads, an inlet near Falmouth that the rivers Percuil, Penryn and Fal drain...
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or Yarmouth Roads. Basque Roads, France Bolivar Roads, Galveston, Texas, US Roadstead of Brest, France Carrick Roads, England Castle Roads, Bermuda Cherbourg...
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village, formerly two separate hamlets, lies on the east bank of the Carrick Roads, a large waterway created after the Ice Age from an ancient valley which...
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Kingdom. It is located in the civil parish of Feock on the shore of the Carrick Roads. Cornwall portal Craig Weatherhill (2017). The Place-Names of the Land's...
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Falmouth, Cornwall (section Road)
Plymouth. In 1540, Henry VIII built Pendennis Castle in Falmouth to defend Carrick Roads. The main town of the district was then at Penryn. Sir John Killigrew...
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Carrick-on-Shannon (Irish: Cora Droma Rúisc, meaning 'weir of the marshy ridge') is the county town of County Leitrim in Ireland. It is the largest town...
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