Anderton, Cornwall

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Anderton
Cornwall

Anderton and Millbrook Lake
Location
Grid reference: SX431519
Location: 50°20’53"N, 4°12’36"W
Data
Local Government
Council: Cornwall

Anderton is a settlement on the Rame Peninsula in south-eastern Cornwall. (There are also places called 'Anderton' in the parishes of Launcells and St Juliot).[1]

Anderton is part of Millbrook, on the Rame Peninsula. Anderton stands beside the tidal portion of Millbrook Lake on the Tamar estuary opposite Plymouth.

Captain Charles Bampfield Yule of the Royal Navy, explorer and author of the Admiralty Australia Directory, died in Anderton in 1878.

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References

  1. Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 19