What is Perranporth?
[[File:Perranporth Beach - geograph.org.uk - 63350.jpg|thumb|Perranporth Beach]] '''Perranporth''' is a small seaside resort on the north coast of [[Cornwall]], [[United Kingdom]]. It is six miles (10&nbsp;km) southwest of [[Newquay]]<ref name=OS1>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN|9780319229385}}</ref> and seven miles (11.3&nbsp;km) northwest of [[Truro]].<ref name=OS2>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 ''Truro & Falmouth'' {{ISBN|9780319231494}}</ref> Perranporth has a population of 3,066.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060525024349/http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=10779 Cornwall County Council Statistics]</ref> and is the largest settlement in the parish of [[Perranzabuloe]]. The village's name is [[Cornish language|Cornish]] for ''Saint Piran's cove''. It is believed that Saint Piran founded a church at Perranzabuloe near Perranporth in the seventh century. Buried under sand for many centuries, it was unearthed early in the 20th century, but again abandoned in the sands in the 1970s. ==References== {{reflist}} {{eu-stub}} [[Category:Villages in Cornwall]]