St Columb
St Columb Major is a town and also civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Commonly described locally as St Columb, it is approximately seven miles (11 km) southwest of Wadebridge as well as 6 miles (10 kilometres) east of Newquay. The classification Significant identifies it from the nearby settlement and also parish of St Columb Minor on the coast. A selecting ward merely called St Columb exists with a population at the 2011 census of 5,050. Twice a year the town plays host to "hurling", a medieval video game when common throughout Cornwall but now just played in St Columb and St Ives. It is played on Shrove Tuesday and then once again on the Saturday eleven days later. The game includes 2 groups of several hundred people (the 'townsmen' and also the 'fellow citizens') who endeavour to lug a silver round constructed from apple timber to goals established two miles (3 kilometres) apart, making the parish, around 25 square miles (65 km2) in location, the de facto biggest sports ground worldwide.
