page_title: Newquay
section_title: 1801–1900
hierarchical_section_title: Newquay / History / 1801–1900
caption_attribution_description: British English: The huer's house at Newquay where the "huer" would watch out for pilchard shoals and let the fisherman know when they were around. It is a Grade II* listed building. This is a photo of listed building number 1144136.
context_page_description: Newquay is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, in the south west of England. It is a civil parish, seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries, future spaceport and a fishing port on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall, approximately 12 miles north of Truro and 20 miles west of Bodmin.
  The town is bounded to the south by the River Gannel and its associated salt marsh, and to the north-east by the Porth Valley. The western edge of the town meets the Atlantic at Fistral Bay.
  The town has been expanding inland since the former fishing village of New Quay began to grow in the second half of the nineteenth century.
  In 2001, the census recorded a permanent population of 19,562, increasing to 20,342 at the 2011 census. Recent estimates suggest that the total for the wider Newquay area would rise to 27,862 by 2018 and 30,341 in 2019.
context_section_description: The first national British census of 1801 recorded around 1,300 inhabitants in the settlement (enumerated as a village under St Columb Minor parish). The construction of the current harbour started in 1832.
  A mansion called the Tower was built for the Molesworth family in 1835: it included a castellated tower and a private chapel as they were practising Roman Catholics and no church for that denomination existed in the area. The Tower later became the golf club house. After the arrival of passenger trains in 1876, the village around the port of Newquay started to grow quickly. Several major hotels were built around the end of the 19th century, the first and oldest was the Great Western Hotel, built in 1879, on Station Road (later known as Cliff Road). Other hotels that followed after included the Victoria in East Street, the Atlantic and the Headland, while many others were created around this period by converting large houses,  originally built by wealthy visitors as holiday homes, particularly along Narrowcliff.
  Until the end of the 19th century, the port was famous for pilchards and there is a "Huer's Hut" above the harbour from which a huer would cry "Hevva!" to call out the fishing fleet when pilchard shoals were spotted. The town's present insignia includes four pilchards, while its motto Ro An Mor is Cornish for 'from the sea'. The real pilchards now only survive in limited stocks, but a small fleet still catches the local edible crabs and lobsters. The arms of the former urban district council of Newquay were Or on a saltire Azure four herrings respectant Argent.
caption: Huer's hut, Newquay
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