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Google Maps is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first mobile version of Google Maps (then known as Google Local for Mobile) was launched in beta in November 2005 for mobile platforms supporting J2ME. [191] [192] [193] It was released as Google Maps for Mobile in 2006. [194]
Pendennis Castle (Cornish: Penn Dinas, meaning "headland fortification") is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, England between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire , and defended the Carrick Roads waterway at the mouth of ...
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales .
Carland Cross is a location in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, about six miles (10 kilometres) north of Truro at OS grid reference . At Carland Cross there are a hamlet, a road junction and a large wind farm. The road junction is in the civil parish of St Erme, very close to the boundary with St Newlyn East. [1]
Godolphin House is a listed building, recorded at the highest designation, Grade I. [8] Three other structures on the estate, the stables, [9] the forecourt walls, [10] and a blowing house used for the smelting of tin are also listed at Grade I. [11] A number of buildings on the wider estate have Grade II listings: two sets of gates and gatepiers on the drive to the house, [12] [13] and some ...
Lanlivery (Cornish: Lannlyvri) [1] is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) west of Lostwithiel and five miles (8 km) south of Bodmin. [2] The Saints' Way runs past Lanlivery. [3] Helman Tor, Red Moor and Breney Common nature reserves lie within the parish.
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