Gorran Haven
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Gorran Haven is a fishing village, in the civil parish of St Goran, on the south coast of Cornwall, England, UK. It is about 2 miles south of Mevagissey and lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstandin
Gorran Haven
Gorran Haven seaweed
Gorran Haven, Cornwall at low tide on a summer afternoon.
Charles William Peach
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Charles William Peach ALS was a British naturalist and geologist. He discovered fossils in Cornwall, after it had been stated by the geologist William Conybeare that there were no fossil-bearing rocks
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…Sir Richard Dearlove (1945– ), civil servant, was born in and spent his early childhood in the village. Charles William Peach (1800–1886), naturalist and geologist, lived in the village and worked in the surrounding landscape, there is a plaque to his memory in the village…
Charles William Peach, 1844
Plaque commemorating C. W. Peach, placed on the former Customs House at Gorran Haven, Cornwall, UK by the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall