Talk:Camborne/Archive 1

Population
What is the population of Camborne, not including Redruth, Pool and satellite villages? Simply south (talk) 16:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * For the Civil Parish (ie the area covered by Camborne Town Council), the population on census night 2001 was 20,010, per the UK Census website, linked here - . DuncanHill (talk) 16:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * That would make more sense. I think this should be added as the town's population in the article, with a brief mention of the conurbation later. Simply south (talk) 17:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I have no idea where the 39,000 figure claimed for 2006 in the infobox comes from. DuncanHill (talk) 17:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * It comes from census data here, under "Camborne-Redruth" --Joowwww (talk) 17:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Cool. I do think the CP population makes more sense, as the article is essentially about the town/parish, and the "Camborne-Redruth" conurbation is not a local government area. DuncanHill (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I am currently in the process of including both, although the lead afterwards could probably be tweaked better. Simply south (talk) 17:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * OK, i have just updated it with both references etc. Simply south (talk) 17:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Good work. DuncanHill (talk) 17:32, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Can someone just reword the lead slightly now? Simply south (talk) 17:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The 39,000 does not appear to include the 14,000 from Illogan. I cannot see in the source any mention of satellite villages. The four town and parish councils that make up the urban area have well over 50,000 population when their entire populations are includedBodrugan (talk) 19:54, 25 August 2011 (UTC).

History
On Christmas Eve 1801, the London Steam Carriage - a steam-powered road locomotive built by Camborne engineer Richard Trevithick - made its way up Camborne Hill in Cornwall. It was the world's first self-propelled passenger carrying vehicle. The events have been turned into a local song:

Doesn't this conflict with another Wiki article which states;

A small version of his three-wheeled fardier à vapeur ran in 1769. (A fardier was a massively built two-wheeled horse-drawn cart for transporting very heavy equipment such as cannon barrels).

The following year, a full-size version of the fardier à vapeur was built, specified to be able to carry 4 tons and cover 2 lieues (7.8 km or 4.8 miles) in one hour, a performance it never achieved in practice. The vehicle, which weighed about 2.5 tonnes tare, had two wheels at the rear and one in the front where the horses would normally have been; this front wheel supported the steam boiler and driving mechanism. The power unit was articulated to the "trailer" and steered from there by means of a double handle arrangement.

Serpren (talk) 05:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Surely this was the first steam powered Tricycle?? Talskiddy 10:09, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Removed
I removed the following statement; "Locally, the pro-Cornish party Mebyon Kernow (which favours a Cornish Assembly) has a large following in the area and recently became the largest political group on Camborne town council after a by-election" as the infomration box following it shows labour to have the majority Serpren (talk) 07:01, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Richard Trevithick was born in Pool, not Penponds as stated. However, he did live for a time in Penponds and his house is now National Trust property. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.156.225.58 (talk) 20:10, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

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