Anderton
Anderton and Millbrook Lake
Anderton is located in Cornwall
Anderton
Anderton
Location within Cornwall
OS grid referenceSX 431 519
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townTorpoint
Postcode districtPL10
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
List of places
UK
England
Cornwall
50°20′53″N 4°12′36″W / 50.348°N 4.210°W / 50.348; -4.210

Anderton is a settlement in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, located at grid reference SW 431 519. There are also places called Anderton in the parishes of Launcells and St Juliot.[1] This Anderton is according to the Post Office at the 2011 Census included in the civil parish of Maker-with-Rame.

Anderton is part of Millbrook, a village on the Rame Peninsula. It is situated beside the tidal portion of Millbrook Lake on the Tamar estuary opposite Plymouth.[2]

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

References

  1. ^ Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 19
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3

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