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St Martin By Looe

Autumn 2013Published and funded by

St Martin By Looe Parish Council.

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37th Morval Vintage Steam Rally, Pic by C Hyde

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St Martin By LooeParish Councillors

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ChairmanRobert Henly 01503 240738

Vice ChairmanRoberta Powley 01503 240650

CouncillorsBarbara Reynolds 01503 240520

Lynne Burt 01503 240383Mike Elford 01503 265922

David Keeble 01503 263525John Broad 01503 264459

Parish Clerk & Magazine EditorCharles Hyde 01579 340905stmartinpc1@btinternet.com

County CouncillorArmand Toms 01503 264823

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If you would like to include an advertisement in the next edition of St MartinBy Looe News please contact The Clerk, Charles Hyde on 01579 340905 orby email stmartinpc1@btinternet.com. Costs: £20 for a full page, £10 for a½ page, £5 for 1/3 page. Contract discounts are available.The magazine is printed quarterly and has a circulation of 300 copies whichare hand delivered to every home in the Parish.

ContributionsWe always welcome contributions from people living in the Parish. If youwould like to air your views on a particular subject or have a photograph orpiece of artwork for the front cover please get in touch with The Clerk.

Statutory DisclaimerAll articles and advertisements are published in good faith, St Martin By LooeParish Council cannot check all details in the articles and any views ex-pressed may not necessarily reflect those of the Parish Council. Neither canwe be held responsible for the actions of any advertisers now or in the future.

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Welcome to the Autumn 2013 EditionWow, what a summer, it has been great to see outdoor living return toour lives after too many miserable summers. In this edition we celebratea successful Morval Rally, the opening of a much needed facility inMillendreath and the fabulous floral displays created by the Millendreathin Bloom Team. The usual features are also included. If you haveanything you wish to see in future edition please do not hesitate tocontact me, my number is on page 2. C Hyde, Editor.

Planning ApplicationThere were several application received during the summer, theseincluded:The erection of advertisement signs at Millendreath: Alternative designsfor 2 units within existing planning consent at Millendreath HolidayVillage: The removal of Agricultural Occupancy condition at Cliff ValleyFarm: Refurbishment and extension of 6 No holiday chalets (23, 24, 26,27, 28 And 32 Hillside Villas) to include landscaping enhancements andaccess road improvements (resubmission of PA13/02747). At Millen-dreath Holiday Village.

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New Parish CouncillorFollowing the July Meeting interviews were held to fill the one vacancyon the Parish Council, a total of four candidates were seen whichresulted in John Broad from Millendreath being co-opted to serve on theParish Council. A profile for john can be found on page 6.

Annual Audit of AccountsThe Parish Council accounts have been audited by the statutory bodyselected by the government. The Parish Council passed all of the testsand the audit has now been completed. The accounts can be inspectedby visiting the Parish Council’s offices (details on page 2), or by visitingour website.

B3253 footpath at No Man’s LandWork continues to progress on the project to provide a pedestrianfootpath from the Holland Road Estate to the B3253. The Ancient Wellhas been rediscovered and plans are underway to preserve it.

Parish Council MeetingsRequests to speak at meetings must now be made in writing to TheClerk at least 48 hours in advance, failure to do so could result in yourrequest being refused. Next meetings, 5th Sept, 3rd Oct, 7th Nov 13.

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Retiring in 2011 I havetaken a keen interest inlocal matters and haveattended most of theParish Council Meet-ings; I am also a mem-ber of the MillendreathOwners Associationand this year I havebecoming the Chair-man of Millendreath inBloom.

When a vacancy cameup for the Parish Coun-cil, I was fortunate tobe co-opted to serveuntil the next electionas I did feel there wasa need for some localrepresentation for Mil-lendreath.

I hope during my timeas Councillor I can helpto support the Parish infuture challenges.

My name is John Broad, I am married to Maureen and we have twogrown up sons and two grandchildren.Born in Plymouth and lived there for the majority of my working life asa sales manager covering the South West. Since our children weresmall, as a family we frequently holidayed in Cornwall and eventuallybought holiday accommodation here, we finally went back to familyroots in the Looe area and moved to Millendreath 8 years ago and arenow enjoying life in the community. My wife and I are keen gardeners,enjoy walking, bird watching, kayaking and sailing when the opportuni-ty arises.

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A challenge was put before the residents and property owners ofMillendreath in early Spring this year – to enter Millendreath into SouthWest in Bloom and Cornwall in Bloom 2013. This challenge was takenup at an open invitation meeting attended by a few residents andowners and the voluntary Millendreath in Bloom Committee wasformed. Not knowing what we were letting ourselves in for it soonbecame apparent what was needed and a wealth of skills surfacedwithin the volunteers enabling the project to move forward. Thanks tofunding from our local Parish Council and local businesses whosupported our efforts from the very beginning, enabling purchase ofplants etc.As everyone should now beaware there is a major multimillion development happen-ing in the valley and althoughindependent of this opera-tion, we are grateful for thesupport Espalier have givenour group. This has had a

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beneficial advantage for us as MiB hasbeen able to play a very small partregards the appearance of where welive and work.Hopefully the hard work has paid off andfrom positive comments received fromvisitors and locals we think there has been a degree of success. Therehave been 2 separate official judging days in Millendreath and fingerscrossed, the invite received for the Committee to attend the Cornwallin Bloom presentation night at the Eden Project on 17 October willproduce results. A portfolio has been produced covering our progresswhich will go online shortly.We are an independent voluntary community based project meetingregularly, details will be posted on your community notice board. Anyone interested in joining our group or just popping into a meeting will bemost welcome. It is hoped we can continue on to 2014 with your help.An hour to suit now and then can make all the difference to where yourenvironment and from personal experience it has been rewarding tomeet our neighbours and share your views. John Broad MiB Chairman. Tel: 01503 264459.

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If you haven’t yet caught up with the regener-ation project at Millendreath, now’s the time fora visit… you’ll be amazed at the transforma-tion.Since the team behind the MillendreathProject (millendreath.co.uk) launched its BlackRock Beach Resort brand in July – namedafter the landmark Black Rock on the easternside of the beach – the beachside café andclub have gone from strength to strength. Seethe fantastic feedback from visitors on theirfacebook page(facebook.com/BlackRockBeach).The beach club is open throughout the sum-mer season offering SUP, kayak and body-board hire and tuition. Look out for their half

cook everything from scratchusing fresh local produce wher-ever possible. There are dailyspecials, including soups, pas-ta, catch of the day, homemadecakes and biscuits and a setprice dinner menu (2 coursesfor £16 and 3 courses for £20)from 6.30pm - 9pm daily.

Opening hours will vary out of season during October to March, but theaim is to stay open depending on the weather!To encourage everyone who lives locally to support this local eatery,there’s a 10% discount voucher to take along with you on your nextvisit. See the advert in this edition.Please visit the facebook pages to check for special events especiallydesigned with local people in mind (facebook.com/BlackRockBeach)or call the café on 01503 263651.

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There was sunshine, laughter andthe air was filled with the nostalgicsmell of steam engines when I visit-ed the Morval Sream Rally on Sun-day. The atmosphere was electricand everyone appeared be having agreat time. There was a fantasticdisplay of vintage vehicles whichattracted large crowds, with peopletravelling from near and far to seethem. The vintage baler was demonstated.

There were many events in the mainring but the highlight was a perform-ance by a wheelbarrow stunt troupecalled The Arrow Barrows displayteam. Wearing RAF Uniforms the com-edy team entertained the crowds whothoroughly enjoy the show.

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Attendance was great this year withan estimated 10,000 people comingthrough the turn styles.The Rally raises thousands ofpounds for local charities and thisyear the Cornwall Air Ambulance willbe amongst the charities selected tobenefit.

The Morval Vintage Steam Rally isalways a great family day out, andworth attending, so don’t forget todiary next years show which will beon 23rd, 24th and 25th August2014, see you all there.

Pictures by Charles Hyde

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The Lost Lands of TreloyMagnam Britannica (Vol 3) 1814 was an early travel guide listing all theparishes in Cornwall. It states that the only village in our parish isTreloy. Today many parishioners would have trouble finding it!

Treloy, or Treluwi of Domesday, was an ancient Celtic manor originally‘the farm of Leuien’. Early documents refer to ‘Trelewyan’ (1303) . Thisbecame ‘Trelowya’ by 1615 and then “Trelowia’.

After the Norman conquest the manor was given to the Courtenays whoadministered the land with their property called ‘Domett’ at‘Buckunnoke’. Every other year a tithingman was elected by thetenants. It was his duty to collect rents and attend the Hundred Court.He also had to uphold the customs of the manor.

1 Make hue and cry. Persuing, with horn and voice, felons anddangerous persons.

2 Wayves. These were goods stolen and ditched in flight. Theybecame the property of the Lord of the Manor.

3 Estrays. Valuable livestock found wandering. These were to bereturned to the King’s estate.

4 Felons. Deciding on punishments for wrongdoers.

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5 Deodand goods. Any personal chattel that had caused a death hadto be forfeited and given to the King ‘for pious purposes’ to preventtheir use in the black arts.

6 Fishing and free warren. The tenants could take fish from the rivers(in season) and raise rabbits, hares and game birds for the table.

7 Heriots. This was a death duty paid to the Lord of the Manor whena tenant died. Traditionally it was his ‘best beast’ but leaseholdershad to cough up the cash (26s 8d in 1650). It reinforced the servilenature of the tenancy and wasn’t abolished until 1922.

So Trelowia jogged along through the Middle Ages and seems to bequite an idyllic place! There was a bit of a hiccup when Henry Courte-nay was beheaded and the manor was ‘acquired’ by the Duchy in 1540.Duchy surveys show the Andrew’s corn mill in Hessenford and JohnEvens’ fulling mill. Walter Evens leased a property in Trelowia by hisneighbour Elizabeth Hauskins. This conjures up a landscape of corn-fields with long-leggety four-horned sheep and the populace clad inindestructable worsted garments while tending their looms!During 17th Century some of the manor became freehold. WalterLangdon who had ‘a certaine hedge with a peece of wast ground’ for 4dfinished up building Keveral Manor and Stephen Medulysh, the clerk

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had a house and 40 acres. John Moyle had Trewalla and the Carewshad land called Treledrin.300 years later much has changed, but it is surprising how much ofthe distant past is reflected today’s landscape, and Treloy seems tohave faded into it.

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Very few people are aware of the comings and goings that take placein their gardens during the hours of darkness – one visitor who takesadvantage of the cover that night time brings is the hedgehog. Thislittle animal will visit many gardens over a wide area in its quest for foodeach night. Most people will have at some time seen a hedgehog,sadly a high percentage of these sightings will be road kill, whichaccounts for a high number of the population of these now endangeredanimals.Hedgehogs have a strong sense of smell and hearing but relativelypoor eye sight – they are an asset to the garden as they eat many ofthe pests gardeners spend time and money trying to eradicate. Theyget their name from the habitat they frequent and the pig like snortingnoise they make while snuffling for food. The males are called boarsand the females are called sows.After hibernating from October until April, they build up their bodyweight to prepare for breeding, usually in May and June. After mating

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the little hoglets are born abouta month later – in a successfulyear it is possible to have twolitters, producing five or sixyoung each time. The youngare born in nests of leaves anddry grass, often under gardensheds, wood stores as well asnatural cover. One month laterthey leave the nest to foragewith their mothers and after afurther three or four weeks theyare on their own. Those bornlate in the season will have toensure they can achieve ahealthy body weight to survivethe winter. They hibernate somewhere warm and dry such as a pile ofleaves or logs – for this reason you should always check piles of gardenwaste before starting a bonfire as there may be a hedgehog in resi-dence. If you have the time and ability you could build a hedgehoghouse and with it placed in a quiet corner of the garden, have a residentwithin days – these little animals need all the help they can get.It is quite easy to help the hedgehog and very rewarding, especially, iflike me, you catch frequent sightings. You can encourage them to visityour garden by putting small amounts of food, that only they can reach,placed under a supported low, flat roof tile or other weighted material todeter foxes and cats. The choice of food is simple, anything you wouldfeed your dog or cat – no fish products though and always a dish ofwater but never milk.It is unlikely, but if you do happen across a hedgehog in daylight overthe next couple of months, protect your hands with gloves or similar,pick it up and estimate its weight. If you think it feels light, under 500 g,then it might not be fit enough to get through the winter. In which caseyou could feed it up for a few days or contact the experts – the RSPCAwill help or put you in touch with a local rehabilitation centre.It is good to take time in our busy lives to help our wildlife, not just tosurvive but to thrive. Dave Keeble

A rare sight today

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Council congratulates young people in Cornwall onA level success

With thousands of youngsters in Cornwall receiving their exam resultstoday, Andrew Wallis, the Council’s Cabinet Member for Children andYoung People, said that their achievements were a tribute to the hardwork and commitment of students, schools and colleges and to thesupport provided by parents and carers.“This is a very important day for all these young people and I would liketo congratulate everyone on their achievements and wish them luck inwhatever path they take” he said. “I am delighted that , once again,many young people in Cornwall have done so well.”The national results show a slight fall this year in the proportion ofA-levels awarded top grades. Nationally just over a quarter of examentries - 26.3% - have received A or A* grades, compared with 2012'sfigure of 26.6 . Girls are still more likely than boys to get an A* or an A;26.7% of their entries hitting this mark, compared with 25.9% for thoseof boys; but boys this year were slightly more likely to get the highestgrade - A*; 7.9% of boys' entries got an A*, compared with 7.4% of thoseof girls.The national results also show more students are opting to do A-levelsin maths and science, with economics the subject with the biggest risein entries - up 7.4%. Chemistry rose by 5.2% and physics by 3.1%.Maths rose by just under 3% and further maths by 4.5%. There hasbeen a fall in those taking French and German, down by 10% and 11%respectively, however, Spanish has seen an increase in entries of 4%.Deanne Fishbourne, Head of Service for Schools, Achievement andSEN, has also welcomed the success of Cornish students. “Hopefullyeveryone has got the grades they need to go onto the next stage,whether that is to higher education or to the world of work” she said."However, if you have not done as well as you had hoped, then pleasedon’t panic as there is a huge amount of support available from schoolsand colleges.”“The Council is committed to raising aspirations among all our youngpeople” she added. “We are continuing to work with all schools, settingsand partners in Cornwall to ensure that students are enabled to do thevery best they can, right from Early Years.”

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Officers from the Local Authority will now be working with Headteachersand Governors to analyse both the A levels results and this year’sGCSE results, due to be released next week. The results of this analysiswill help to inform a meeting between Headteachers and senior Councilofficers, including Interim Chief Executive Paul Masters and CorporateDirector Trevor Doughty on 17 September, when Cornwall’s RaisingAspirations and Achievement Strategy will be discussed.“It is important for the future of both our young people and for the futureof Cornwall that all students have access to the highest possible qualityof education” said Trevor Doughty, the Council’s Corporate Director forChildren, Schools and Families. “While the majority of our schools areachieving high standards, we need to ensure that all are enablingstudents to achieve the maximum progress possible.Paul Masters, the Council’s Interim Chief Executive, echoed that state-ment “The Council is working hard to ensure that success for our localeconomy is closely related to success for our young people”.

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Looe Police Station contact number.If you need to contact your local Police Station you can use the

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If you have a six month garden waste permit, it will come to an end on30 September. So if you want garden waste collections after this date,now is the time to renew.Around 6,500 six month permits were issued in April – if you want torenew in time for the next six month period, please contact us.We will send you a permit in time for the collections to begin on weekcommencing 1 October or 8 October, depending on your collection week.If you already have one of the Council’s brown wheeled bins or areusable bag it is a very easy process. You can renew your permit onlineOr just call us on 0300 1234 141 and renew over the phone. The callcentre is open from 8.30am until 6pm Monday to Friday. Alternatively,you can visit any of our one stop shops and pay in person.

If you already have a bin, the 2013/2014 six month collection chargesare:240 litre wheeled bin - £12.35140 litre wheeled bin - £8.25Reusable sack - £7.75

And if you haven’t already got one, the container prices are:240 litre bin £19.50140 litre bin £16.05Reusable garden waste bag £3.55Just give us a call and or call into one of our one stop shops and we willarrange for them to be delivered, but please allow five working days forus to deliver the bins to you.

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Cornwall Council have informed the Parish Coucil that Looe Hill be-tween its junction with the B3247 and Seaton House will be temporarilyclosed (24 hours) for road works, between 9th - 13th September 2013.Alternative Route ,From the western end of the closure take a north westerly directionalong Looe Hill and then take a south westerly direction to The Lodge.Take a northerly direction to the junction south of Polborder House andthen continue in a north westerly direction into Bucklawren Road. AtHolland Farm take a south westerly direction to the junction with theB3253 then take a north easterly direction along the B3253 to thejunction with the A387. Take a south easterly and easterly directionalong the A387 to the junction with the B3247 and then take a southerlydirection along the B3247 to the eastern end of the closure; and viceversaFor further information please contact: Western Power Distribution. Tel:0800 365900

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