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The station at this town was on the [[Madras Railway]] which became the [[South Indian Railway]] [[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|broad gauge (BG)]] '[[Jalarpet-Mangalore Mainline]]'
The cantonment was located at Burnshire (now Burnacherry).
== Spelling Variants ==
Modern name: Kannur<br>
Variants: Cannanore, Kananore, Kananur, Connanore, Cannonore, Canonor, Cananor, Cananoor, Canamore
<br>Modern name: Burnacherry<br>Variants: Burnshire, Burnachery, Burnassery
== History ==
[[Image:Kannur fort chapel.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The fort chapel, now ruins.]]
==== Military ====
*[[Battle of Cannanore]] 1783<br />*[[Surrender of Cannanore]] 1790
===== St Angelo's Fort =====
Built by the Portuguese in 1505, the triangular fort was captured by the Dutch in 1663 and held until 1771 when it was sold to the Ali Raja. The British seized it in 1790 and the fort subsequently became a central part of British military operations on the Malabar coast.
The fort is in the cantonment area of Cannanore. It is also known as Cannanore Fort.
=====Chemical Defence Research Establishment=====
Spelling variant: Defense
During the Second World War from 1944, Cannanore was the site of a Chemical Defence Research Establishment CDRE carrying out research connected with mustard gas. (Previous test sites were at [[Rawalpindi]], then Devlalli or [[Deolali]] near [[Nasik]].) Connected with this project, there were also a Royal Air Force contingent. The two field ranges where Chemical Warfare tests were conducted were at Kumbala and Porkhal.<ref>[https://maddy06.blogspot.com/2018/10/cannanore-days.html "Cannanore Days: Burnshire - Cannanore 1944-46"] October 20, 2018 ''maddy’s ramblings''. Includes the account of Danny, RAF pilot, flight 1340 (on special Duty) about his activities and the Burnshire cantonment at Cannanore.</ref>
== Churches and missions ==
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/424/mode/2up Cannanore] page 425 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/adescriptioncoa00barbgoog#page/n177/mode/2up "Cananor"] page 150 ''A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the beginning of the sixteenth century by Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese. Translated from an early Spanish manuscript in the Barcelona library''; with notes and a preface by Henry E. J. Stanley. 1866 Archive.org
==References==
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