Carland Cross
| Carland Cross | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 Carland Cross roundabout on the A30 trunk road | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW846540 |
| Location: | 50°20’49"N, 5°1’42"W |
| Data | |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
Carland Cross is tiny hamlet and industrial site gathered around a road junction in Cornwall, about six miles north of Truro. This junction, in the Parish of St Erme, is where the A39 splits off the A30 trunk road, the former heading south to Truro and the latter continuing towards Penzance.
At Carland Cross the hamlet is dwarfed by a large wind farm. There is a motorists' services area here too, by the roundabout.
Wind farm
Carland Cross wind farm lies to the north of the A30 with road access from the roundabout. It is the oldest windfarm in the United Kingdom after that at Delabole,[1] and was built in 1992. It has 15 turbines manufactured by Vestas with a capacity of 6 MW.[1] Plans by the operator, Scottish Power, to upgrade and expand the wind farm to 20 MW have been opposed by a local pressure group called RATS (Residents Against Turbines),[2] but the ‘repowering’ was approved in May 2012.
Antiquities
Nearby there are Iron Age burial mounds and flint arrow heads have been found in local fields.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Carland Cross) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "New Turbines For Cornish Windfarm". Press Release. Scottish Power. 19 February 2008. http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1634.htm. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
- ↑ Residents Against TurbineS