Spirit of Albion: Save the Holy Headland

Saturday, 1 November 2008

Save the Holy Headland

Sandy Cove, Penzance

Sunrise viewed from Sandy Cove, Penzance

Don't Let Cornwall County Council Rip the
Sacred Heart out of Penzance
A preliminary report by Alex Langstone

Information is starting to trickle through about a hidden plan to build a car park and ferry terminal over the sandy cove by the harbour at Penzance, Cornwall. This is the beach where Celtic saints landed at the holy headland (Cornish Pen Sans). This is the ancient sacred heart of the modern town of Penzance. The site of St Anthony's chapel lies close by and the remains of a dark age cross found by this beach, now resides in St Mary's churchyard just up the hill. We must stop this happening. Seals and Dolphins are regularly seen swimming here, the rock pools are full of beautiful anemones and fish and the view across the bay to St Michael's Mount is unsurpassable!

Contact Save the Holy Headland website now, where you can download and read The Limpet, the broadsheet dedicated to telling the truth about this project. A project that has been deliberately hidden from the people of Penzance!

See also my article in Heritage Action's Heritage Journal here

Above: The Front and back cover of
The Limpet No. 3. November 2008 -
Click images to enlarge.

http://savetheholyheadland.blogspot.com
Email here: savetheholyheadland@yahoo.com

What to do now?
Protest now by writing to the following:

Andrew George MP, Trewella, 18 Mennaye Rd, Penzance TR18 4NG. Tel: 01736 360020
Fax: 01736 332866 www.andrewgeorge.org .uk
Secretary of State for the Environment. The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR

Sign the online petition now by clicking this link here

If you are local, visit the beach, take photos of the wildlife and protest, tell people and keep in touch!

You can also help by downloading, printing and distributing The Limpet newspaper from the savetheholyheadland.blogspot.com website. The more people we tell the better.

Rock pool at Sandy Cove, Penzance

2 comments:

Bard of Ely said...: I have signed the petition and pray that this madness is not permitted to happen. The coast is as important a part of the environment as any other!; 18 November 2008 12:49
Anonymous said...: This article is factually incorrect in many ways, the development will mean losing a very small, dangerous to access stony (not sandy) beach. No effect on Battery Rocks, no car park is proposed, no wildlife is threatened.; 3 January 2009 12:15

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