The Spire The Spire The Spire is a 1964 novel by the English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of the 404-foot high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral; the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin. In this novel, William Golding utilises stream of consciousness writing with an omniscient but increasingly fallible narrator. Jocelin, the Dean of the cathedral, directs the construction of a towering spire funded by his aunt, Lady Alison, a mistress of the former King. The project is carried on against the advice of many, and in particular
Newquay Airport Newquay Airport Cornwall Airport Newquay is the main commercial airport for Cornwall, England. At Mawgan in Pydar, northeast of the major town of Newquay on Cornwall's north coast, its runway was operated by RAF St Mawgan before 2008 and is now owned by Cornwall Council. In 2017, the airport handled 461,300 passengers, a 24.2% increase compared with 2016. Newquay has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction. The Cornwall Air Ambulance is based at the airport. Since 2012, the airport has hosted the Aerohub enterprise zone. The runway