About Only Cornwall
Data sources
Where our facts come from, and the licences that let us use them.
- Cornwall Council: dogs on beaches
- Beach dog restrictions, dates, times and maps.
- Cornwall Council: car parks
- Council car park names, postcodes, spaces and opening times.
- Cornwall Council: beach safety
- Lifeguard season, tides and sun advice.
- Cornwall Council: school term dates
- School holidays for Community and Voluntary-Controlled schools.
- Environment Agency: bathing water quality
- Classifications, profiles, descriptions and locations. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Met Office: Camborne historic station data
- Monthly weather used for our 1991–2020 averages. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- GOV.UK: bank holidays
- Bank holidays in England.
- GOV.UK: clock changes
- Dates of clock changes.
- HM Coastguard
- Emergency advice.
- RNLI: find a lifeguarded beach
- Linked for lifeguard times; we do not copy them.
- Wikidata
- Town and attraction descriptions, operators, Cornish names, heritage list numbers and coordinates (CC0).
- OpenStreetMap: railway stations
- Locations of National Rail stations in Cornwall, used for our straight-line distances (ODbL).
- National Rail: stations
- Linked from every station name for train times, facilities and accessibility.
- National Trust: places in Cornwall
- Official pages linked for opening times, prices and parking; we do not copy them.
- English Heritage: places to visit
- Official pages linked for opening times, prices and parking; we do not copy them.
- Nominatim (OpenStreetMap search)
- Used to cross-check town and attraction coordinates (ODbL).
- OpenStreetMap contributors
- The Cornwall outline on our maps (ODbL).
- Met Office: severe weather warnings RSS (South West England)
- Live warnings in the banner on every page. Each warning links straight to the Met Office page. © Crown copyright, Met Office.
- Environment Agency: real-time flood-monitoring API
- Flood alerts and warnings for Cornwall in the banner. This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Environment Agency: bathing water pollution risk forecasts
- Daily forecasts in the “Water today” panel on beach pages during the bathing season. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- South West Water: storm overflow activity
- Storm overflow status within 2 km of each beach, in the “Water today” panel. © South West Water, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Live information
The warnings banner and the “Water today” panels are fetched from the sources above when a page is requested, cached for up to 10–30 minutes, and show the time they were fetched. If a source is unavailable we show the last copy we saved when the site was built, with its time. They are a convenience, not a safety service: always check the official source.
Sunrise and sunset times are our own calculations using NOAA solar equations. Map shapes contain OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
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