Restormel
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox historic subdivision Restormel (Template:Langx)<ref>Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.</ref> was a borough of Cornwall, England, one of the six administrative divisions that made up the county. Its council was based in St AustellTemplate:Coord; its other towns included Newquay.
The borough was named after Restormel Castle. It was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the borough of St. Austell with Fowey, Newquay urban district and St Austell Rural District. The name Restormel comes from Cornish, meaning the king's tower hill.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The motto of the borough, in Cornish, is Ro an mor hag an tyr, meaning "From the sea and from the land". It recognises the borough's connection with the sea (fishing and tourism) and the land (china clay and agriculture). St Austell, the largest settlement in Cornwall, did not have a Parish/Town Council.
The district was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England on 1 April 2009.
TwinningEdit
Restormel is twinned by oath, which used to be accessible to view in the council offices<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> in St Austell, with Kreis Dithmarschen. This used to be part of the borough council; however, in recent years it has become a separate organisation.Template:Clarify
Council investmentsEdit
In March 2009, Restormel Borough Council was accused by spending watchdog the Audit Commission of "negligence" for putting money into Icelandic banks days before they went bust in October 2008.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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External linksEdit
- Official Twinning Website
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060214091224/http://www.restormel.gov.uk/
- Restormel Election Results 2007
- Restormel Arts
- Postcards of the Hundred of Powder
- Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Restormel Borough/District Council
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