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Looe (, meaning deep water inlet) is a small coastal town, fishing port and civil parish in the former Caradon district of south-east Cornwall, UK, with a population of 5,280 at recent census'(2001 & 2011 census'). The two electoral wards mentioning Looe but also including Polperro had a total population of 7,117 at the 2011 census
The town of Looe is approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of the city of Plymouth and seven miles (11 km) south of Liskeard. and is divided in two by the River Looe, East Looe and West Looe (, meaning Little Cove) being connected by a bridge.
The town centres around a small harbour and along the steep-sided valley of the River Looe which flows between East and West Looe to the sea beside a sandy beach. Off shore to the west, opposite the stonier Hannafore Beach, lies the idyllic St George's Island, otherwise known as Looe Island.
Looe is a town in Cornwall, England, UK.
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The Looe Volunteers, however, started well in the matter of dress, which consisted of a dark-blue coat and pantaloons, with red facings and yellow wings and tassels, and a white waistcoat.
And in August, when word came from headquarters that, all danger of invasion being now at an end, the Looe Volunteer Artillery would be disbanded at the close of the year, he tried in vain to grieve.
Doctor resumed, still with his face averted and his gaze directed on the dull outline of Looe Island, a mile away.
The East and West Looe Volunteer Artillery was disbanded a few weeks later, on the last day of the year 1809.
The Corporations of the Two Boroughs entertained the heroes that evening to a complimentary banquet in the East Looe Town Hall, and Sergeant Fugler had recovered sufficiently to attend, though not to partake.
And then followed Captain Pond, who, having moved his audience to tears, pronounced the Looe Die-hards disbanded.
East and West Looe Volunteer Artillery was established in 1803, and kept in pay from Government for six years.
This seemed to him a grave engineering blunder: but to impart his misgivings to an officer so sensitive as Captain Aeneas Pond of the East and West Looe Volunteer Artillery was a delicate matter, and cost him much anxious thought.
Between Looe and Troy, but much nearer to Looe, lies Talland Cove, a pretty recess of the coast much favoured in those days by smugglers as being lonely and well sheltered, with a nicely shelving beach on which, at almost any state of the tide, an ordinary small boat could be run and her cargo discharged with the greatest ease.
Captain Aeneas Pond, Commanding the East and West Looe Volunteer Artillery.
Artillery here is planning a surprise upon our neighbours of Looe, the descent to be made upon Talland Cove.
Even the Ambulance Corps was bound for Looe, in eight additional boats.
Trojans and men of Looe turned tail and were swept in one commingled crowd down the beach.
Let us not pursue those stages of conviviality through which the Looe Diehards, having been seen home by the Troy Gallants, arrived at an obligation to return the compliment.
Between Tavistock and Liskeard it formed a white wall which lasted until they neared the coast, and as they took the road from Looe to Polperro the mist lifted so that they had a glimpse of the little town below, snug between high cliffs, the cottages grouped around the small harbour.