NEWQUAY  , a seaport and watering-

place, in the St Austell parliamentary division of Cornwall, England, 14 M . N. of Truro, on a branch of the Great Western railway . Pop. of urban district (1901) 2935 . It is finely situated on the north coast, on Newquay Bay, which is sheltered to the west by Towan Head . The cliff scenery is grand, and there is a fine sandy beach along the northward sweep of the coast in Watergate Bay . The harbour, artificially constructed, and equipped with a jetty and piers, admits vessels of 250 tons . The chief exports are iron and other ores, china clay, granite, fish and grain . The imports are coal, salt and manures .