Fore Street

"Fore Street" is a name often used for the main street of a town or village in Great Britain. Usage is prevalent in the south-west of England, with over seventy "Fore Streets" in Cornwall and about seventy-five in Devon, but it does also occur in some other parts of England and Scotland.

Fore Street, St Austell

Some Cornish towns and villages with a "Fore Street"

Albaston Ashton, Helston Barripper, Camborne Beacon, Camborne Bodmin Boscastle Bugle, St Austell Callington Calstock Camborne Camelford Cargreen Carharrack, Redruth Chacewater, Truro Constantine, Falmouth Copperhouse, Hayle East Looe Fowey

Golant, Fowey Goldsithney, Penzance Grampound Road, Truro Grampound, Truro Gunnislake Herodsfoot Kingsand Lelant, St Ives Lerryn Liskeard Lostwithiel Madron, Penzance Marazion Mevagissey, St Austell Millbrook Mount Hawke Mousehole, Penzance Nanpean

Newlyn, Penzance Newquay Penponds, Camborne Pensilva Polgooth Polperro Polruan Pool, Redruth Port Isaac Porthleven, Helston Praze-an-Beeble, Camborne Probus Redruth Roche, St Austell Saltash St Austell St Blazey, Par St Cleer

St Columb St Day, Redruth St Dennis, St Austell St Erth, Hayle St Germans St Ives St Just, Penzance St Mabyn, Bodmin St Stephen St Teath, Bodmin Sticker Stratton, Bude Tintagel Torpoint Tregony, Truro Troon, Camborne Tywardreath, Par West Looe

Some towns and villages in Devon with a "Fore Street"

Aveton Gifford Bampton Beer Bere Alston Bere Ferrers Bishopsteighton Bovey Tracey Bradninch Bridestowe Brixham Buckfastleigh Budleigh Salterton Chudleigh Chulmleigh Cornwood Cullompton Culmstock Dartmouth Devonport

Dolton Exbourne Exeter Exmouth Great Torrington Gunnislake Harberton Hartland Heavitree Hemyock Holberton Holcombe Rogus Holemoor Holsworthy Ide Ideford Ilfracombe Ipplepen Ivybridge

Kentisbeare Kenton Kingsbridge Kingskerswell Kingsteignton Langtree Lifton Loddiswell Luton Milton Abbot Moretonhampstead Northam North Molton North Tawton Okehampton Otterton Plympton Salcombe Seaton

Shaldon Sidbury Sidmouth Silverton South Brent South Tawton St Marychurch Tamerton Foliot Teignmouth Tiverton Topsham Torquay - Barton Totnes Uffculme Ugborough Winkleigh Witheridge Yealmpton

Some other UK places with streets called "Fore Street"

Somerset: Chard Taunton Dulverton North Petherton Bridgwater Wellington Winsham Castle Cary Dorset Evershot and Bridport Hertfordshire: Hertford Hitchin Old Hatfield Suffolk Ipswich Framlingham Wiltshire Ashton Keynes Trowbridge Warminster Wylye

Other places Basildon, Essex Birmingham, B2 Eastcote, London Edmonton, London Limehouse, London City of London, EC2 Glasgow, G 14 Hexham, Northumberland Johnshaven, Montrose Lower Darwen, Lancashire

Gallery

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  The Queen's Arms on Fore Street, Constantine, Cornwall
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  The statue of a Cornish miner on Fore Street, Redruth, Cornwall
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  The Red Lion Inn on Fore Street, St Columb, Cornwall
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  Pedestrianised shopping on Fore Street, Brixham, Devon
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  Fore Street in Taunton, Somerset, 1910
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  Arlington House, a listed building on Fore Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire
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  Fore Street, City of London in 1884 - the street now forms part of the Barbican Estate
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  The modern street sign near the Barbican
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  Police station (demolished 1916) on Fore Street, Edmonton, north London, which approximately follows the Romans' Ermine Street
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  Methodist church on Fore Street, Lower Darwen, Lancashire

See also

• High Street
• Street or road name

Sources

• Cornwall Council's Interactive Map
• Street Map.co.uk