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Truro
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(19,000 in 1991) Cathedral town and administrative centre of Cornwall, on the river Truro. Situated a long way inland, it has access to the sea down its own river into the Fal and its estuary; the town's medieval prosperity came from exporting the products of the Cornish tin mines. The diocese of Truro was established in 1877. The Victorian Gothic cathedral was built 1880–1910 to the design of John Loughborough Pearson (1817–97). The Royal Institution of Cornwall was founded as early as 1818; its collections, mainly of local history but including also European paintings and drawings, are on public display.
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