Wadebridge
Wadebridge is a town and also civil church in north Cornwall, England, UK. The town straddles the River Camel 5 miles (8.0 kilometres) upstream from Padstow. The long-term population was 6,222 in the census of 2001, enhancing to 7,900 in the 2011 census. There are two electoral wards in the town (East and also West). Their overall population is 8,272. Originally referred to as Wade, it was a hazardous fording factor across the river up until a bridge was constructed below in the 15th century, after which the name altered to its existing form. The bridge was strategically vital during the English Civil War, and Oliver Cromwell went there to take it. Since then, it has actually been expanded twice as well as reconditioned in 1991. Wadebridge was served by a train station between 1834 as well as 1967; part of the line now creates the Camel Trail, a leisure route for pedestrians, bikers as well as steed cyclists. The town used to be a road website traffic bottleneck on the A39 roadway till it was bypassed in 1991, and the main buying street, Molesworth Street, is now pedestrianised. The town has a senior high school where a number of remarkable sports-people were educated. The Royal Cornwall Show is a three-day agricultural show held at the close-by Royal Cornwall Showground every June, as well as the 5-day Cornwall Folk Festival occurs around the August Bank Holiday.