St Columb
St Columb Major is a community as well as civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. Often described in your area as St Columb, it is about 7 miles (11 kilometres) southwest of Wadebridge and also six miles (10 km) east of Newquay. The classification Major identifies it from the nearby settlement and church of St Columb Minor on the coast. An electoral ward simply named St Columb exists with a population at the 2011 census of 5,050. Twice a year the community plays host to "hurling", a middle ages video game once common throughout Cornwall now only played in St Columb and also St Ives. It is used Shrove Tuesday and afterwards again on the Saturday eleven days later. The game involves two teams of a number of hundred individuals (the 'townsmen' and also the 'countrymen') that endeavour to carry a silver sphere made of apple timber to objectives set two miles (3 km) apart, making the church, around 25 square miles (65 km2) in area, the de facto largest sports ground worldwide.