Paul, Cornwall

Paul (Cornish: Breweni)[1] is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

to have been founded in 490, a very uncertain date and not documented by Paul (or Paol) Aurelian, a Welsh saint.

Pol-de-Leon' in 1907 and is probably connected with Henry Jenner who (with W. C. Borlase) opposed alleged 'Englishness' and consistent spelling of Cornish place names on OS maps.

Paul was one of the communities along with Mousehole, Newlyn, and Penzance to be destroyed in the Spanish raid of 1595 carried out by Carlos de Amésquita.

At the beginning of the 19th century it was found that the almshouses, instead of being administered as bequeathed, were being used as a workhouse for all the poor of the parish.

[6] Within the village churchyard there is a memorial to Dolly Pentreath, believed to be the last native speaker of Cornish, although this claim may be disputed.

There are also crosses in the vicarage hedge and on the churchyard wall (the latter has a crude crucifixus figure on one side).

All signs of the mine on the ground had disappeared by 1925, although quantities of ″wood tin″, continued to find their way into Cornish mineral collections.

For elections to Cornwall Council (the unitary authority) Paul is within the three-member Penzance Electoral division.

In 2007 the club came second in the Cornwall Cricket League and won the competition in 2010, to become Cornish champions for the only time.

The monument to Dolly Pentreath