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Camelford Town Hall

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The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing south onto the Market Place; the central bay originally featured a round headed doorway which was flanked by two round headed windows on either side on the ground floor and there were three round headed windows on the first floor. The east and
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In 1975, the trust decided to convert part of the ground floor and the whole of the first floor into facilities for the county library: the works were carried out to a design by the county Architect, Alan Groves, and the rest of the ground floor was subsequently converted into an office for the
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and county court hearings. The building was subsequently transferred to a specially formed entity, the Camelford Town Trust, and stained glass displaying the former borough
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on the first floor. The new assembly room on the first floor was accessed by an external staircase on the north side. At roof level, there was a timber
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The building was originally erected as a single-storey market house dating back at least to the late-17th century. In the early 19th century, the
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to Camelford Town Council in March 2018 and, after additional refurbishment works, a community hub opened in the building in April 2018.
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was made at the expense of the clerk to the trust, Thomas Edwin Wakefield, and installed in the west-facing Venetian window in 1933.
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Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into Municipal Corporations not subject to the Municipal Corporations Act
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name of the river, "Allen", in combination with "cam" which means crooked and the English word "
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visited the building and saw the completed works during a visit to Cornwall on 31 July 2018.
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despite the fact that the name of the town was actually derived from the
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west elevations featured wide openings on the ground floor and
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Camelford had a very small electorate and a dominant patron,
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Municipal Corporations Act 1883 (46 & 46 Vict. Ch. 18)
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Camelford
Cornwall
50°37′21″N 4°40′46″W / 50.6225°N 4.6794°W / 50.6225; -4.6794
Neoclassical style
Listed Building
1138348
Camelford Town Hall is located in Cornwall
Camelford
Cornwall
listed building
lord of the manor
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
neoclassical style
rubble masonry
Venetian windows
cupola
weather vane
camel
Brythonic
ford
William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland
UK Parliament
rotten borough
members of parliament
Reform Act 1832
Municipal Corporations Act 1883
petty sessions
coat of arms
Age Concern

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