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Boscoppa

Coordinates: 50°21′00″N 4°45′58″W / 50.350°N 4.766°W / 50.350; -4.766
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50°21′00″N 4°45′58″W / 50.350°N 4.766°W / 50.350; -4.766

Phernyssick Road, Boscoppa

Boscoppa (Cornish: Boskoppa)[1] is a settlement in the amalgamation of St Austell in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.[2] Originally Boscoppa was a separate village but is now a suburb of St Austell (Cornwall's largest town) and is west of the recently built A391 bypass road. The village lies in a former mining area.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived May 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5
  3. ^ [1] Ancestry.com website; St Austell Parish pages; retrieved March 2010
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