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In Cornwall, from Fal +‎ mouth, at the mouth of the River Fal.

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Falmouth

  1. A town, port, and civil parish with a town council in south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8132). [1]
  2. A village in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  3. A number of places in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community in Suwannee County, Florida.
    2. An unincorporated community in Fairview Township, Fayette County and Union Township and Washington Township, Rush County, Indiana.
    3. A city, the county seat of Pendleton County, Kentucky.
    4. A town and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, Maine.
    5. A town and census-designated place therein, in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
    6. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Clam Union Township, Missaukee County, Michigan.
    7. A census-designated place in Conoy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
    8. A census-designated place in Stafford County, Virginia.
  4. A port town in Saint Paul parish, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda.
  5. A town, the parish capital of Trelawny parish, Jamaica; named for the harbour town in Cornwall, England.
    • 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 102:
      My son says that this telephone can even allow you to chat with someone in another district—that you may be in Falmouth, yet your talk may be raising the eyebrows of someone in Kingston.
  6. A rural community in Break O'Day council area, Tasmania, Australia.

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