16 Facts About Truro

1.

Truro is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England.

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2.

The Royalist forces surrendered at Truro while leading Royalist commanders, including Lord Hopton, the Prince of Wales, Sir Edward Hyde, and Lord Capell, fled to Jersey from Falmouth.

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3.

Truro prospered in the 18th and 19th centuries through improved mining methods and higher prices for tin, and attraction to wealthy mine owners.

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4.

Truro became the centre for county society, even dubbed "the London of Cornwall".

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5.

Truro's importance increased later in the 19th century with an iron-smelting works, potteries, and tanneries.

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6.

The Bishopric of Truro Act 1876 gave the town a bishop and later a cathedral.

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7.

Truro has mainly grown and developed round the historic city centre in a nuclear fashion along the slopes of the bowl valley, except for fast linear development along the A390 to the west, towards Threemilestone.

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8.

Truro was named in 2006 as the top small city in the United Kingdom for rising house prices, at 262 per cent since 1996.

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9.

Truro has various chain stores, speciality shops and markets that reflect its history as a market town.

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10.

Truro's Christmas includes a Winter Festival with a "City of Lights" paper lantern parade.

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11.

Truro Fencing Club is a national flagship, having won numerous national championships and supplied three fencers for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympics.

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12.

The steam locomotive City of Truro was built in 1903 and still runs on UK mainline and preserved railways.

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13.

Old parish church of Truro was St Mary's, which was incorporated into the cathedral in the later 19th century.

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14.

The lofty St George's church in Truro, designed by Rev William Haslam, vicar of Baldhu, was built of Cornish granite in 1855.

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15.

The theme of the mural is "Three Heavens": the first heaven has views of Zanzibar and its cathedral, the second views of the city of Truro including the cathedral, the railway viaduct and St George's Church, and the third, above the others, separated from them by the River of Life.

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16.

Truro has many proposed urban development schemes, most of which are intended to counter the main problems, notably traffic congestion and lack of housing.

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