Wadebridge
Wadebridge is a community as well as civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town straddles the River Camel 5 miles (8.0 kilometres) upstream from Padstow. The permanent population was 6,222 in the census of 2001, increasing to 7,900 in the 2011 census. There are two electoral wards in the community (East as well as West). Their total population is 8,272. Initially known as Wade, it was an unsafe fording point throughout the river up until a bridge was built here in the 15th century, after which the name transformed to its existing kind. The bridge was strategically vital throughout the English Civil War, and also Oliver Cromwell went there to take it. Since then, it has been expanded twice and reconditioned in 1991. Wadebridge was served by a train station between 1834 and 1967; part of the line currently forms the Camel Trail, a leisure path for walkers, bikers and equine cyclists. The community made use of to be a road web traffic bottleneck on the A39 roadway up until it was bypassed in 1991, as well as the major shopping road, Molesworth Street, is currently pedestrianised. The town has a senior high school where several noteworthy sports-people were enlightened. The Royal Cornwall Show is a three-day agricultural program held at the nearby Royal Cornwall Showground every June, and also the 5-day Cornwall Folk Festival occurs around the August Bank Holiday.
