Cremyll

Cremyll
Cremyll
Cremyll shown within Cornwall
OS grid reference	SX453535
Shire county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TORPOINT
Postcode district	PL10
Dialling code	01752
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	South East Cornwall
List of places UK England Cornwall 50°21′38″N 4°10′33″W / 50.3605°N 4.1758°W / 50.3605; -4.1758Coordinates: 50°21′38″N 4°10′33″W / 50.3605°N 4.1758°W / 50.3605; -4.1758

Cremyll /ˈkrɛməl/ is a small coastal village in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Cremyll is on the Rame Peninsula facing Plymouth Sound. It is situated close to Plymouth, about 9 miles by road or 1/2 a mile by boat (or passenger ferry) from Plymouth. According to the Post Office the 2011 census population was included in the civil parish of Maker-with-Rame.

There has been a ferry at Cremyll since the Saxons' arrival in the eighth century and it was a link in the main southern route into Cornwall until the 1830s. There was a larger community here called West Stonehouse (compare with East Stonehouse) until it was burnt by the French in 1350. In medieval times the ferry was part of the manor of Stone-House, held by the Valletorts.

The Cornish side of Plymouth Sound was not always Cornish. It was incorporated into Anglo-Saxon territory in 705 AD in order to secure both banks of the estuary against, mainly Viking, raids. An area of the Rame peninsula (up to Kingsand) remained as part of Devon until 1844, when it was made part of Cornwall. Today, however, Mount Edgcumbe and the waterfront settlement of Cremyll are emphatically Cornish. They stand on the most easterly extension of the Rame Peninsula, known with ironic pride by local people as the 'Forgotten Corner'.

Today the Cremyll Ferry carries foot passengers and cyclists from Cremyll to Plymouth. Cremyll is on the South West Coast Path which is the longest of the waymarked long-distance footpaths in England.

In the village is The Edgcumbe Arms, which dates back to the 18th century; it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1995.

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