What is Golant?
{{coord|50|22|N|4|38|W|display=title|region:GB_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}} [[File:Golant st samson 001.JPG|thumb|Golant Parish Church]] '''Golant''' is a small [[village]] in [[Cornwall]], [[United Kingdom]]. It is in the [[parish]] of [[St Sampson]] on the [[shore|banks]] of the [[Fowey estuary]] and between [[St. Austell]] and [[Polperro]]. The [[church]] in the villiage is dedicated to [[Saint Sampson|St. Sampson]]. Golant [[railway station]] was at one time by the [[river]] to the south of the village. It was served by [[Railway|trains]] on the [[Great Western Railway]]'s Fowey branch line from 1 July 1896 until 4 January 1965. The station has since been removed. The space is now used for a [[car park]]. [[Annie Vernon]], the [[Olympic games|Olympic]] [[Rowing|rower]], first learned her [[sport]] at Golant's Castle Dore Rowing Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ara-rowing.org/athlete/annie-vernon|title=Annie Vernon|publisher=Amateur Rowing Association|accessdate=2008-09-19|archive-date=2008-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008025118/http://www.ara-rowing.org/athlete/annie-vernon|url-status=dead}}</ref> == History == Until very recently, Golant has been almost unknown except to the people who live there and [[pilgrim]]s and other walkers of the [[Saints' Way]]. Nearby, there is a little used [[ford]] across the Fowey estuary. In late summer 1644, during the first [[English Civil War]], [[war]] came to Golant and the area around the village. A large group of about 10,000 [[Parliament of England|Parliamentary]] [[soldier]]s fought against the forces of [[List of English monarchs|King]] [[Charles I of England|Charles]] on the [[peninsula]] between [[Lostwithiel]], [[St Blazey]] and [[Fowey]]. King Charles was in the area at the time. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Commonscat}} {{UK-stub}} [[Category:Villages in Cornwall]]