Summary
TOWAN Blystra isn't that nice a name and it's doubtful if it would attract so many thousands of visitors every year if the burghers hadn't decided that the Cornish name meaning "wind-blown sand dunes" was all too appropriate and that its beach was too exposed to the north-westerlies, and therefore petitioned Parliament in 1439 for a new quay, whose name rather unimaginatively attached itself to the harbour and thence to the town.
The north coast of Cornwall is a hard and dangerous place for shipping and the opportunity to make a landfall on the sandy beaches in order to pick up cargoes of tin or iron (in which the area was unusually rich) must have brought in trading boats long before there were records to note them.See the full content of this document
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Towan Blystra ; Huer's Call [Edition 2]
Later the port and the New Quay allowed a greater trade and this was enhanced by an early railway line in 18...
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