Definition & Meaning | English word CROWAN

Definitions of CROWAN

1. A cpar and small village south of in Camborne, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW6434).

Examples of Using CROWAN in a Sentence

• Around 460, she travelled to Cornwall with a company of seven other Irish saints: Germoe, Senanus (Sithney), Mavuanus (perhaps Mawnan), Elwen, Crowan, Helena, and Tecla.
• The River Hayle rises near Crowan and flows through the village and the railway branch to Helston passed nearby.
• The parish of Wendron was part of the Hundred of Kerrier and was originally bounded by the parishes of Illogan, Gwennap, Stithians, Constantine, Mawgan-in-Meneage, Gunwalloe, Sithney and Crowan.
• 1918–1950: The Borough of Helston, the Urban Districts of Camborne, Hayle, Phillack, and Redruth, the Rural District of Redruth, in the Rural District of East Kerrier the parishes of Constantine, Mabe, and Perranarworthal, in the Rural District of Helston the parishes of Crowan and Wendron, and in the Rural District of Truro the parishes of Kea, Kenwyn Rural, Perranzabuloe, St Agnes, St Allen, and Tregavethan.
• Primavera offered stoneware by the Winchcombe and Crowan potteries, tin-glaze from the Cole brothers' Rye Pottery, tableware by Lucie Rie, textiles, furniture and basketwork being exhibited and sold.
• Leland's extracts name Elwen as one of Saint Breage's seven Irish companions who join her on her mission to Cornwall, the others being Sithney, Germoe, Mavuanus (perhaps Mawnan), Crowan, Helena, and Tecla.
• There are also places called Pengelly in the parishes of Breage, Crowan and St Ewe; the meaning of Pengelly is "end/top of a grove".
• She has been a member of Cornwall Council since 2011, and currently serves as councillor for Crowan, Sithney and Wendron.
• A large number of local residents from Falmouth, Penryn and Budock are represented on site, but families from across Cornwall can also be found at Ponsharden, including those from Calstock, Crowan, Gerrans, Gorran, Grade, Illogan, Launceston, Mevagissey, Mullion, Nancarrow, Redruth, Ruan Minor, St Agnes, St Austell, St Columb, St Ives, St Keverne, Sancreed, Stithians, Talland, Wadebridge and Wendron.
• The division represented the villages of Townshend, Praze-an-Beeble, Crowan, Burras, Trewennack, Trevenen Bal, Wendron, Trenear, Rame, Carnkie, Halwin, Porkellis, Penmarth, Polmarth and most of Leedstown (which was shared with the Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth division).
• It also covered the area of Godrevy (including, nominally, Godrevy Lighthouse), parts of the hamlets of Rose-an-Grouse and Canon's Town (both shared with Ludgvan division), the village of Leedstown (shared with Crowan and Wendron division), and most of the hamlet of Roseworthy (shared with Camborne Treswithian and, to a lesser extent, Camborne Pendarves).
• It was abolished at the 2021 local elections, being succeeded by Porthleven, Breage and Germoe and Crowan, Sithney and Wendron.
• Crowan, Sithney and Wendron is an electoral division of Cornwall in the United Kingdom which returns one member to sit on Cornwall Council.
• It is bordered to the north by the ocean, to the east by the electoral divisions of Pool and Tehidy, Camborne Roskear and Tuckingmill, and Camborne Trelowarren, to the south by the division of Four Lanes, Beacon and Troon and Crowan, Sithney and Wendron, and to the west by the division of Gwinear-Gwithian and Hayle East.
• It is bordered to the north by the electoral divisions of Lanner, Stithians and Gwennap and Mylor, Perranarworthal and Ponsanooth, to the east by the English Channel and the divisions of Penryn and Falmouth Trescobeas and Budock, to the south and west by the division of Helston South and Meneage, and to the west by the division of Crowan, Sithney and Wendron.

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