Zelah
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| Zelah | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 Cottages at Zelah | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SW8151 |
| Location: | 50°18’36"N, 5°4’12"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Truro |
| Postcode: | TR4 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
Zelah is a village in Cornwall, some five north of Truro.
Zelah is the largest place in the civil parish of St Allen, though the whole parish population at the 2001 census was just 435.
Cornwall's main end-to-end trunk road, the A30, used to pass through Zelah, until in 1992 a bypass was built south of the village to divert the trunk road traffic away from the main street.
The pub in Zelah is an old coaching inn named The Half Moon, but it was renamed the Hawkins Arms in the 19th century in honour of a descendant of West Country seafarer Sir Richard Hawkins.
Name
Zelah is named after Zelah in ancient Israel, a place in the allotment of the Tribe of Benjamin which was the burial place of King Saul, his father Kish and his son Jonathan.[1]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Joshua 18: 21; 2 Samuel 21: 14 ('And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.')