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St John ((コーンウォール語:Sen Yowann)) is a coastal civil parish and a village in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, south of Saltash and south-east of Torpoint.〔Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3〕 ==Geography== The parish is opposite Plymouth, separated from it by St John's Lake, an inlet of The Hamoaze in Plymouth Sound.〔 St John parish is in the St Germans Registration District and the population in the 2001 census was 375, increasing to 391 at the census 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Parish population 2011 )〕 To the north, the parish is bordered by St John's Lake and to the south by the sea. To the east, the parish is bordered by Millbrook, to the south-east by Maker-with-Rame and to the west by Antony parish. A few hundred metres north of St John village is an area of high ground called Vanderbands, the site of an Iron Age castle mentioned by John Norden (an English topographer who wrote a series of county histories) in his description of Cornwall published in 1728.〔''John Norden's Manuscript Maps of Cornwall and its Nine Hundreds'', Ravenhill, University of Exeter, 1972〕 The ''St John's Lake SSSI'' (Site of Special Scientific Interest) is designated mainly for its bird interests, with 6000 wildfowl and 10000 waders owerwintering on the mudflats. There is an unusual tidal ford on a minor public road. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St John, Cornwall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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