Place:Grade Ruan, Cornwall, England

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NameGrade Ruan
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates49.989°N 5.187°W
Located inCornwall, England     (1934 - )
See alsoGrade, Cornwall, Englandcivil parish making up Grade Ruan in 1934
Ruan Major, Cornwall, Englandcivil parish making up Grade Ruan in 1934
Ruan Minor, Cornwall, Englandcivil parish making up Grade Ruan in 1934
Kerrier Rural, Cornwall, Englandrural district 1934-1974
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Grade Ruan is a civil parish on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, England. It is approximately ten miles (16 km) south of Falmouth.

It is a rural parish bounded to the east by St. Keverne parish and by the sea; to the west by Mullion and Cury parishes; and to the south by Landewednack parish.

Grade Ruan civil parish encompasses part of Goonhilly Downs and the major settlements are Grade, Ruan Minor, Ruan Major (or St. Ruan), and Cadgwith. The parish was formed in 1934 because falling population necessitated merging the ecclesiastical parishes of Grade, Ruan Major and Ruan Minor. All three were in the Deanery of Kerrier and Kerrier Hundred. Formerly, Cadgwith had been partly in Grade parish and partly in Ruan Minor parish.

The population of Grade Ruan has increased steadily; it was (according to the decennial censuses) 677 in 1961, 835 in 1981, 1,070 in 2001, and 1,180 in 2011.

Grade Ruan lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Grade-Ruan.

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