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Dist:0.1km<br/>Grampound's linear layout is medieval, with long thin burgage plots extending away from the main street, Fore Street (A390). Most of the village core is a Conservation Area, and there are many listed buildings on Fore Street. Its name is from the Norman French grand (great) and pont (bridge) and it was an important crossing point on the River Fal. It was notorious as a rotten borough, returning two MPs to the House of Commons from the reign of Edward VI until it was disenfranchised in 1821, after a corruption scandal that led to the conviction and imprisonment of several people for bribery.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.2km<br/>Grampound was an important town because of its position as a crossing point on the Fal.
©Rod Allday
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©Camilla Comeau
Dist:0.2km<br/>The town hall is, of course, the building with the clock. It is unusual for a village to have a town hall but Grampound has been around a long time and used to be an important market town and a centre for leather tanning. The church is dedicated to St Nun and was first built in 1370 although the small friendly-looking church you see here dates mainly from a rebuilding of the church in 1869.
©Tony Atkin
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©nick macneill
Dist:0.2km<br/>On the hillside just to the north of Grampound village.
©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.2km<br/>The village of Grampound seems to have one overriding characteristic which you notice before anything else - traffic.
©Tony Atkin
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©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking up the main street from by the church. The only time the villagers get a break from this traffic is when they stop it for the annual carnival procession.
©Tony Atkin
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©Tony Atkin
Dist:0.8km<br/>Originally the route of the road, before re-alignment and improvement. This was the main route from Exeter to Truro, as the road ran through Grampound, the lowest crossing on the River Fal.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.8km<br/>Decorated with various old buoys and floats.
©Rod Allday

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