Wadebridge
Wadebridge is a town and also civil church in north Cornwall, England, UK. The community straddles the River Camel 5 miles (8.0 kilometres) upstream from Padstow. The permanent population was 6,222 in the census of 2001, enhancing to 7,900 in the 2011 census. There are 2 electoral wards in the town (East and West). Their complete population is 8,272. Originally referred to as Wade, it was a hazardous fording factor across the river until a bridge was built below in the 15th century, after which the name altered to its existing type. The bridge was strategically crucial throughout the English Civil War, as well as Oliver Cromwell went there to take it. Since then, it has been broadened twice and also reconditioned in 1991. Wadebridge was served by a train station between 1834 and 1967; part of the line currently forms the Camel Trail, a recreational path for walkers, cyclists and also horse cyclists. The town made use of to be a road traffic bottleneck on the A39 roadway up until it was bypassed in 1991, and the major shopping street, Molesworth Street, is now pedestrianised. The community has a high school where several remarkable sports-people were informed. The Royal Cornwall Show is a three-day agricultural show held at the neighboring Royal Cornwall Showground every June, and the 5-day Cornwall Folk Festival takes place around the August Bank Holiday.