Carfury

Carfury
Carfury

 Carfury shown within Cornwall
OS grid reference SW445341
Shire county Cornwall
Region South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Cornwall
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
List of places: UK • England • Cornwall

Carfury is a hamlet in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated in Penwith approximately three miles (5 km) northwest of Penzance.[1]

The 19th-century geologist Elizabeth Carne founded a school in Carfury.[2]

There are three listed buildings in Carfury, they are all Grade II: Carfury farmhouse and its front garden walls, farm buildings west of Carfury farmhouse, and a piggery north of the farmhouse.[3]

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  2. ^ The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives. Google Books. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QmfyK0QtsRAC&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229&dq=Carfury+site:.org&source=web&ots=BRqoPO1jlH&sig=pTc4OLIpNlvX6p8h4i10OvdUq2c&hl=en.  Retrieved on 7 May 2008.
  3. ^ "Listed Buildings in Penwith" (PDF). Penwith.gov.uk. http://www.penwith.gov.uk/media/adobe/k/c/84576_ListedBuildingPoint_1.pdf.  Retrieved on 6 August 2008.

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