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Architecture

• Royal Albert Bridge
  Royal Albert Bridge
  
  The Royal Albert Bridge spans the River Tamar in the United Kingdom between Plymouth, on the Devon bank, and Saltash on the Cornwall bank. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and carries the Cornish Main Line in and out of Cornwall....
  
• Tamar Bridge
  Tamar Bridge
  
  The Tamar Bridge is a major road bridge at Saltash in South West England England carrying traffic between Cornwall and Devon. When it opened in 1961 it was the longest suspension bridge in the United Kingdom....
  
• Railway stations in Cornwall
• Cornwall Railway viaducts
  Cornwall Railway viaducts
  
  The Cornwall Railway viaducts were mostly built on stone piers but with spans of timber fans. This design was chosen by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in order to reduce the cost of their construction, but at the expense of high maintenance costs....
  
• Tate St Ives
  Tate St Ives
  
  Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, Cornwall, UK, exhibiting work by modern United Kingdom artists, including work of the St Ives School....
  
• Eden Project
  Eden Project
  
  The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse.The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite clay pit, located from the town of St Blazey and from the larger town of St Austell, Cornwall, England....
  
• Jamaica Inn
  Jamaica Inn
  
  The Jamaica Inn is a Pub on the borders of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Built as a Coaching inn in 1750, it is famous for being the base of smugglers in the past and known as the setting for Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn ....
  
• Historic houses in Cornwall

Lighthouses

• Bishop Rock
  Bishop Rock
  
  Bishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly , known for its lighthouse, and listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest island with a building on it in the world....
  
• Eddystone Lighthouse
  Eddystone Lighthouse
  
  Eddystone Lighthouse is on the treacherous Eddystone, 9 statute miles south west of Rame Head, United Kingdom. While Rame Head is in Cornwall, the rocks are in Devon....
  
• Godrevy
  Godrevy
  
  Godrevy is an area of west Cornwall, United Kingdom, found on the north coast within St. Ives, Cornwall and is popular with both the surfing community and walkers....
  
• Lizard Lighthouse
  Lizard Lighthouse
  
  The Lizard Lighthouse, on Lizard Point, Cornwall in Cornwall, United Kingdom, was built in 1619, but the inability to collect dues from passing ships forced its closure in 1623....
  
• Longships
  Longships
  
  Longships is the name given to a group of rock situated 1.25 miles to the west of Land's End, in Penwith, Cornwall, United Kingdom.A lighthouse is situated at Longships....
  
• Pendeen Lighthouse
  Pendeen Lighthouse
  
  Pendeen Lighthouse is located in the the far west of Cornwall, United Kingdom on the cliffs near Pendeen.. It is operated by Trinity House and was established in 1900....
  
• St. Anthony's Lighthouse
  St. Anthony's Lighthouse
  
  File:Phare-pte-Saint-Antony-a-Fa.jpgSt Anthony's Lighthouse is a lighthouse on St Anthony Head on the eastern coast of the entrance to the harbour of Falmouth, Cornwall, Cornwall....
  
• Tater Du Lighthouse
  Tater Du Lighthouse
  
  Tater Du Lighthouse is Cornwall's most recently built lighthouse. The construction of the lighthouse came out of the tragedy of losing a small Spanish Coastal trading vessel called the Juan Ferrer on the 23rd of October 1963, on the nearby Boscawen point, the vessel capsized with the loss of 11 lives....
  
• Trevose Head Lighthouse
  Trevose Head Lighthouse
  
  Trevose Head Lighthouse is situated on the north Cornwall coast at near Padstow. It has two lights, approximately and above sea level....
  
• Wolf Rock, Cornwall
  Wolf Rock, Cornwall
  
  Wolf Rock lies 8 miles off Land's End in Cornwall, UK, . This rock was a constant danger to shipping and a number of attempts to put a beacon on the rock were made between 1795 and 1850; finally a lighthouse was built on it between 1862 and 1870....
  

Culture

• Cornish people
  Cornish people
  
  The Cornish people are regarded as an ethnic group of the United Kingdom originating in Cornwall. They are often described as a Modern Celts....
  
• Modern Celts
  Modern Celts
  
  Modern Celts are those peoples who are speakers of Celtic languages, or who consider themselves, or have been considered by others, to participate in a Celtic culture deriving from communities that have formerly been Celtic-speaking....
  
• Celtic Congress
  Celtic Congress
  
  The International Celtic Congress is a cultural organisation that seeks to promote the Celtic languagues of the nations of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man....
  
• Pan-Celticism
  Pan-Celticism
  
  Pan-Celticism is the name given to a variety of movements that espouse greater contact between the various Celtic nations....
  
• The Cornish Gorseth (Gorseth Kernow)
  Gorseth Kernow
  
  Gorseth Kernow is a non-political Cornwall organisation, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of the county of Cornwall in the United Kingdom....
  
• Bards of the Cornish Gorseth
• Cornish diaspora
• Anglo-Celtic
  Anglo-Celtic
  
  Anglo-Celtic is a macro-cultural term used to collectively describe the cultures native to Great Britain and Ireland and the significant diasporas located in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States....
  
• Literature in Cornish
  Literature in Cornish
  
  Cornish literature refers to written works in the Cornish language.Pascon agan Arluth , a poem of 259 eight-line verses probably composed around 1375, is one of the earliest surviving works of Cornish literature....
  
• The Cornish National Anthem
  The Song of the Western Men
  
  "The Song of the Western Men" was written by Robert Stephen Hawker, and is also known by the title of "Trelawny".Hawker wrote the song in 1824, telling of events that took place in 1688....
  
• Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
  Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
  
  The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was formed in 1924, with the objective of collecting and maintaining "all those ancient things that make the spirit of Cornwall ? its traditions, its old words and ways, and what remains to it of Cornish language and nationality"....
  
• List of Cornish saints
  List of Cornish saints
  
  This is a list of a few of the saints associated with Cornwall.For more information see the works of Gilbert Hunter Doble and Nicholas Orme's book, The Saints of Cornwall ....
  
• Cornish tartans
  Cornish tartans
  
  Cornish tartans are thought to be a modern tradition started in early to mid 20th Century. The first modern kilt was plain black, and other patterns followed....
  
• Cornish dance
  Cornish dance
  
  Cornish dance has largely been shaped by its people and the industries they worked in. In most cases, particularly with the step dancing, the dances were still being performed across the region when they were collected....
  
• Helston Furry Dance
  Furry Dance
  
  The Furry Dance, also known as Flora Dance , takes place in Helston, Cornwall, and is one of the oldest British people customs still practised today....
  
• West Cornwall May Day celebrations
• Golowan
• Guldize
  Guldize
  
  Guldize, Gooldize or Goel dheys is the harvest festival of the Cornish people. Guldize is Cornish language for "The feast of ricks". The festival itself was held at the end of the wheat harvest and took the form of a vast feast usually around the time of the Autumn equinox....
  
• Kernewek Lowender
  Kernewek Lowender
  
  The Kernewek Lowender is a Cornwall biennial festival held in the Copper Triangle towns of Kadina, South Australia, Moonta, South Australia and Wallaroo, South Australia on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia....
  
• Kiddlywink
  Kiddlywink
  
  Kiddlywink is an old name for a Cornwall beer shop or beer house. They became popular after the 1830 beer act. They were licensed to sell beer or cider by the Her Majesty's Customs and Excise rather than by a Magistrate's Licence which was required by traditional Taverns and Inns....
  
• Royal Institution of Cornwall
  Royal Institution of Cornwall
  
  The Royal Institution of Cornwall was founded in Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom, in 1818 as the Cornwall Literary and Philosophical Institution....
  
• Royal Cornwall Museum
  Royal Cornwall Museum
  
  The Royal Cornwall Museum in the city of Truro, England, United Kingdom is the oldest museum in Cornwall and the leading museum of Cornish culture....
  
• Cornwall Record Office
  Cornwall Record Office
  
  Cornwall Record Office , part of Cornwall County Council, is situated at Old County Hall in Truro and is the main repository for the historical archives of Cornwall....
  
• Beast of Bodmin
  Beast of Bodmin
  
  The Beast of Bodmin, like The Beast of Exmoor, is a Phantom cat which ranges in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Bodmin Moor became a centre of these sightings with occasional reports of mutilated slain livestock: the alleged Leopard-like cats of the same region came to be popularly known as the Beast of Bodmin Moor....
  
• Tom Bawcock's Eve
• Allantide
  Allantide
  
  Allantide is a Cornwall festival that was traditionally celebrated on 31 October elsewhere known as Hallowe'en. The festival itself seems to have pre-Christian origins similar to most celebrations on this date, however in Cornwall it was popularly linked to St Allen or Arlan a little known Cornish Saint....
  
• Chewidden Thursday
  Chewidden Thursday
  
  Chewidden Thursday was a festival celebrated by the tin miners of West Cornwall on the last clear Thursday before Christmas. The festival celebrated the discovery of 'white tin' or smelted tin by St Chiwidden a little known Cornish saint who in legend was an associate of St Piran....
  
• Picrous Day
  Picrous Day
  
  Picrous Day was a festival celebrated by the tin miners of Cornwall on the 2nd Thursday before Christmas. This is believed to be the feast of the discovery of tin by a man named Picrous who miners in the East of Cornwall celebrated as the founder of their industry instead of St Piran....
  
• Guise dancing
  Guise Dancing
  
  Guise dancing is a folk practice celebrated between Christmas Day and Twelfth Night in Cornwall, UK. One of the principal activity associated with the guise dancing was the performance of a 'traditional' Christmas play with the players were dressed in a disguise to hide their identity allowing them to perform in an outlandish or mischiev...
  
• Literature in Cornish
  Literature in Cornish
  
  Cornish literature refers to written works in the Cornish language.Pascon agan Arluth , a poem of 259 eight-line verses probably composed around 1375, is one of the earliest surviving works of Cornish literature....
  
• Cornish saints
• Cornish writers
• Nickanan Night
  Nickanan Night
  
  Nickanan Night is a Cornwall feast, traditionally held on the Monday before Lent. Sometimes called roguery night in West Cornwall, this event was an excuse for local youths to undertake acts of minor vandalism and play practical jokes on neighbours and family....
  
• St Piran's Day
  St Piran's Day
  
  St Piran's Day is the national day of the Cornish people of Cornwall, held on 5 March every year. The day is named after one of the patron saints of Cornwall, Saint Piran....
  
• Kneehigh Theatre
  Kneehigh Theatre
  
  Kneehigh Theatre is a theatre company in Cornwall.Kneehigh was started in 1980 by Mike Shepherd. Early productions were performed invillage halls, marquees, cliff-tops and quarries....
  
• Pixie (folklore)
• Knocker (folklore)
• Owlman
  Owlman
  
  Owlman, sometimes referred to as the Cornish Owlman or The Owlman of Mawnan, is a cryptozoology creature that was sighted in the late 1970s in the village of Mawnan, Cornwall....
  

Literature, television and film

• Frenchman's Creek
  Frenchman's Creek
  
  Frenchman's Creek is a 1942 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II of England, it tells the story of a love affair between an impulsive English lady and a French pirate....
  
• Jamaica Inn (film)
  Jamaica Inn (film)
  
  Jamaica Inn is a 1939 in film film made by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn , the first of three of du Maurier's works that Hitchcock adapted ....
  
• Jamaica Inn (novel)
  Jamaica Inn (novel)
  
  Jamaica Inn is a novel by the Cornwall writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called Jamaica Inn , by Alfred Hitchcock....
  
• Rebecca (novel)
  Rebecca (novel)
  
  Rebecca is a novel by United Kingdom author Daphne du Maurier. When Rebecca was first published in 1938, du Maurier became - to her great surprise - one of the most popular authors of the day....
  
• Rebecca (film)
  Rebecca (film)
  
  Rebecca is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first United States project, and his first film produced under his contract with David O....
  
• Proper Job, Charlie Curnow
  Camborne
  
  Camborne was once one of the richest mining areas in the world and is located in north Kerrier, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, forming the western end of the greater Camborne, Pool, Cornwall and Redruth conurbation....
   (novel)
• Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales
  Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales
  
  Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1966 anthology of 34 fairy tales from Cornwall that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders....
  
• Straw Dogs
  Straw Dogs
  
  Straw Dogs is a 1971 in film film directed by Sam Peckinpah which stars Dustin Hoffman and Susan George . A dark, domestic drama psychological thriller, the screenplay by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman is based on the novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon Williams....
  
• The Poldark Novels
  The Poldark Novels
  
  Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, and a popular BBC television series of the 1970s based on the books. In June 2008, in celebration of Winston Graham's centenary on 30 June 2008, Pan MacMillan has republished all twelve novels making them available for a new generation of readers....
  
• Wycliffe (TV series)
  Wycliffe (TV series)
  
  Wycliffe was a United Kingdom TV series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network between 1993 and 1998....
  
• Wild West (sitcom)
• Doc Martin
  Doc Martin
  
  Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama starring Martin Clunes. Created by Dominic Minghella, it is filmed on location in and around the fishing village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, with filming of most interior scenes and production carried out in a converted barn at a local farm....
  
• The Camomile Lawn
  The Camomile Lawn
  
  The Camomile Lawn is a novel by Mary Wesley about the lives of Richard and Helena Cuthbertson and their five nieces and nephews; Calypso, Walter, Polly, Oliver and Sophy....
  

Music and musicians

• Cornish music
  Music of Cornwall
  
  Cornwall has been historically Celtic, though Celtic-derived traditions had been moribund for some time before being revived during a late 20th century roots revival....
  
• Celtic music
  Celtic music
  
  Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe....
  
• Cornish bagpipes
  Cornish bagpipes
  
  Cornish bagpipes are a form of bagpipe once common in Cornwall. Their design is unusual as it has two long chanters which are played independently....
  
• The Pirates of Penzance
  The Pirates of Penzance
  
  The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas....
  
• Oggy Oggy Oggy
  Oggy Oggy Oggy
  
  The Oggy Oggy Oggy chant , and its numerous variations, are often heard at sporting events, political rallies and around Scouting and Girl Guides campfires....
  
• Luke Vibert
  Luke Vibert
  
  Luke Vibert is a United Kingdom recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronica. He began his musical career as a member of the Hate Brothers, only later branching out into his own compositions....
  
• Brenda Wootton
  Brenda Wootton
  
  Brenda Wootton was a Cornwall poetess and folk music and was seen as an ambassador for Cornish people tradition and culture.She began her musical career as a young schoolgirl, singing in village halls throughout the remote communities of west Cornwall....
  
• Al Hodge
  Al Hodge (rock musician)
  
  For the actor Al Hodge of Captain Video and Green Hornet fame, see 'Al Hodge').'Al Hodge' was a guitarist and songwriter, who has had success with "Rock N Roll Mercenaries", a song that was sound recording and reproduction by Meat Loaf and John Parr in 1986....
  
• Camel Rock
  Camel Rock
  
  Camel Rock is a music festival which is usually held on Porth Hellick, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. The name comes from the neighbouring rock formation, Camel Rock. The music festival is held once a year, on the August Bank Holiday....
   (music festival)
• Thirteen Senses
  Thirteen Senses
  
  Thirteen Senses is a rock music Musical ensemble from Cornwall, England. The group released the album The Invitation on 27 September 2004, along with several singles: "Thru the Glass", "Do No Wrong", "Into the Fire" and "The Salt Wound Routine", of which the first three have reached the United Kingdom Top 40....
  
• Kubb (band)
  Kubb (band)
  
  Kubb are a Great Britain indie rock band from London....
  

Disasters

• Boscastle flood of 2004
  Boscastle flood of 2004
  
  The Boscastle flood of 2004 occurred on Monday, 16 August 2004 in the two villages of Boscastle and Crackington Haven in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom....
  
• Penlee lifeboat disaster
  Penlee lifeboat disaster
  
  The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the coast of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, when the Penlee Point, Mousehole Lifeboat went to the aid of the stricken Coastal trading vessel Union Star in heavy seas....
   (1981)
• Sikorsky S-61 disaster 1983
  Sikorsky S-61 disaster 1983
  
  On 16 July 1983, British Airways Helicopters' commercial Sikorsky S-61 helicopter Oscar November crashed in the southern Celtic Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, when en route from Penzance Heliport to the St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Isles of Scilly in thick fog....
  
• Torrey Canyon
  Torrey Canyon
  
  The Torrey Canyon was a supertanker capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, which was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall England in March 1967 causing an environmental disaster....
  
• Cornish shipwrecks

Economy

• Economy of Cornwall
  Economy of Cornwall
  
  The economy of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, is largely dependent upon agriculture followed by tourism. Cornwall is one of the poorest areas in the United Kingdom with a GDP of 62% of the national average, and is one of four UK areas that qualifies for poverty-related grants from the EU ....
  
• Companies based in Cornwall
• South West Regional Assembly
  South West Regional Assembly
  
  The South West Regional Assembly is the regional Assemblies in England for the South West England of England, established in 1999. It is based in Taunton....
  
• South West of England Regional Development Agency
• Regional development agency
  Regional Development Agency
  
  A regional development agency is a non-departmental public body established for the purpose of development, primarily economic, of one of England's Government Office regions....
  
• Regional Assemblies in England
  Regional Assemblies in England
  
  "Regional Assembly" is the name which has been adopted by the England bodies established as regional chambers under the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 and of the elected London Assembly....
  

Education

• Combined Universities in Cornwall
  Combined Universities in Cornwall
  
  The Combined Universities in Cornwall is a project to provide higher education in Cornwall, one of the few county in the United Kingdom not to have a university within its boundaries, and also one of the poorest areas of the country in terms of Gross Domestic Product per head....
  
• Cornwall College
  Cornwall College
  
  Cornwall College, St Austell, England, is the third largest further education college in the country and is situated on various sites throughout Cornwall with its main centre in St Austell....
  
• Tremough
  Tremough
  
  Tremough Campus is a university campus situated in Penryn, Cornwall, Cornwall. It is the only such university project in Cornwall currently. The name Tremough derives from the Cornish language word for "pig farm"....
  
• University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
  University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
  
  University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus is a campus of the University of Exeter at Tremough, in Penryn, Cornwall. Since 2004 it has housed all the university's operations in Cornwall, previously scattered across a number of different sites....
  
• University College Falmouth
  University College Falmouth
  
  University College Falmouth is a United Kingdom university college in Falmouth, Cornwall. Founded in 1902, it had previously been the Falmouth School of Art and then Falmouth College of Arts until it received academic degree-awarding powers in March 2005....
  
• Camborne School of Mines
  Camborne School of Mines
  
  The Camborne School of Mines , commonly abbreviated to CSM, is a specialist department of the University of Exeter. Its research and teaching is related to the understanding and management of the Earth's natural processes, resources and the environment....
  
• Redruth School
  Redruth School
  
  Redruth School is a secondary school and sixth form college in Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, for ages 11-18....
  
• Institute of Cornish Studies
  Institute of Cornish Studies
  
  The Institute of Cornish Studies started in 1970/71 as a research centre jointly funded by Exeter University and Cornwall County Council, with three core staff being employees of the University of Exeter ....
  
• Trevenson
  Trevenson
  
  Trevenson is a suburb of Redruth in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.It is a small area which makes up part of the Carn Brea civil parish....
  
• Schools in Cornwall
• Truro School
  Truro School
  
  Truro School is a mixed independent school in the city of Truro, Cornwall, England. It is a methodism school and was founded in 1880. Its original name was "Truro Middle Class College for Boys" and it only became fully co-educational in 1990 after the integration of sixth form girls into the school....
  
• Carbeile Junior School

Famous people

• List of notable residents of Cornwall
  List of notable residents of Cornwall
  
  Note: This list includes persons born in Cornwall in the United Kingdom and also persons of long-term residence or with strong connections with Cornwall....
  
• Cornish people
• People in Cornish history
• Cornish saints
• Cornish writers

• Earl of Cornwall
  Earl of Cornwall
  
  The title of Earl of Cornwall was created several times in the Peerage of England before 1337, when it was superseded by the title Duke of Cornwall, which became attached to heirs-apparent to the throne....
  
• Duke of Cornwall
  Duke of Cornwall
  
  The Dukedom of Cornwall was the first dukedom created in the peerage of England.The present Duke of Cornwall is Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the reigning British monarch ....
  
• Duchess of Cornwall
  Duchess of Cornwall
  
  The Duchess of Cornwall is the title held by the wife of the Duke of Cornwall. Duke of Cornwall is a non-hereditary peerage held by the British monarchy eldest son and heir....
  
• Great Cornish families
  Great Cornish families
  
  Great Cornish families: a history of the people and their homes is a book by Crispin Gill, published in 1995 .Gill chooses the following families:...
  

• Clemo, Jack
  Jack Clemo
  
  Reginald John Clemo was a British poet and writer, strongly associated both with his native Cornwall and his Christian belief. His work is visionary and inspired by the Cornish landscape....
   – poet and novelist
• John Coode (engineer)
  John Coode (engineer)
  
  Sir John Coode , England civil engineer, was born at Bodmin, Cornwall, the son of a solicitor. After considerable experience as an engineer in the west of England he came to London, and from 1844 to 1847 had a consulting practice in Westminster....
  
• Courtney, Leonard
  Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith
  
  Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom politician and man of letters, eldest son of JS Courtney, a banker, was born at Penzance....
   – 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith
• Davy, Humphrey
  Humphry Davy
  
  Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet Fellow of the Royal Society Royal Irish Academy was a Cornish chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali metal and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine....
   – scientist
• John Edyvean
  John Edyvean
  
  John Edyveanwas a Cornish people engineer who invented the inclined plane system, to reduce the necessity for Canal locks on the canal system....
   - engineer
• du Maurier, Daphne
  Daphne du Maurier
  
  Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning Order of the British Empire was an English author and playwright. Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca , which won the Best Picture Academy Award in 1941, Jamaica Inn , and her short stories The Birds and Don't Look Now....
   – author
• Fitzsimmons, Bob
  Bob Fitzsimmons
  
  Robert James "Bob" Fitzsimmons , a British boxer, made boxing history as the sport's first three-division world champion. He also achieved fame for beating Gentleman Jim Corbett, the man who beat the great John L....
   – heavyweight boxer
• Gurney, Goldsworthy
  Goldsworthy Gurney
  
  Sir Goldsworthy Gurney was a surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, Construction and prototypical British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian era period....
   – inventor, scientist, architect, etc.
• Harris, John
  John Harris (poet)
  
  John Harris was a Cornwall poet.Harris was born and raised in a two-bedroom cottage on the slopes of Bolenowe Carn, a small Cornwall village, near Camborne....
   – poet
• John Harvey (ironfounder)
  John Harvey (ironfounder)
  
  John Harvey was a Cornish people whose career started as a blacksmith and engineer at Carnhell Green near Hayle, in West Cornwall. In 1779 he established a foundry and engineering works at Hayle called Harvey & Co....
   - engineer
• Harrison Hayter
  Harrison Hayter
  
  Harrison Hayter was a United Kingdom engineer, participating in many significant railway construction projects in Britain and many harbour and dock constructions worldwide....
   - engineer
• Jonathan Hornblower
  Jonathan Hornblower
  
  Jonathan Carter Hornblower was a United Kingdom pioneer of steam power, the son of Jonathan Hornblower and brother of Jabez Carter Hornblower, two fellow pioneers....
   - engineer
• William Husband
  William Husband
  
  William Husband was a British people, civil engineer and mechanical engineer of the 19th century....
   - engineer
• Ind, Bill
  Bill Ind
  
  William Ind commonly known as Bill Ind is a United Kingdom Anglican clergyman and formerly Bishop of Truro.The son of William Robert Ind and Florence Emily Spritey was educated at the Duke of York's School in Dover, at the University of Leeds, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1964 and at the College of the Re...
   – Bishop of Truro
• Jenner, Henry
  Henry Jenner
  
  File:Henjenner.jpgHenry Jenner Society of Antiquaries of London was a Celtic languages scholar, Cornwall cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival....
   – Celtic scholar
• Larke, Joh Short
  John Short Larke
  
  John Short Larke was Canada's first , representing the country in Australia starting in 1894....
   - Canadian diplomat
• Lloyd, George
  George Lloyd (composer)
  
  George Lloyd was a Cornish people composer of late-Romantic music classical music.George Walter Selwyn Lloyd was born in St Ives, Cornwall, Cornwall to a family with some money and great enthusiasm for music....
   – composer
• Michael Loam
  Michael Loam
  
  Michael Loam a Cornish people who invented the Man engine, , a device to carry men up and down the shaft of a mine. He won the prize for this design, offered by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in 1834....
   - engineer
• Luxon, Benjamin
  Benjamin Luxon
  
  Benjamin Matthew Luxon Order of the British Empire is a retired British baritone.He studied with Walter Gr?nner at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and established an international reputation as a singer when he won a third prize at the 1961 ARD International Music Competition in Munich....
   – baritone
• Martyn, Nigel
  Nigel Martyn
  
  Antony Nigel Martyn , more commonly known as Nigel Martyn, is a former England association football goalkeeper who played more than 600 competitive matches in English football....
   – England international goalkeeper
• Thomas Matthews (engineer)
  Thomas Matthews (engineer)
  
  Sir Thomas Matthews was an England civil engineer, who was a notable builder of lighthouses. He was the brother of Sir William Matthews , also a prominent civil engineer....
  
• McGrath, Rory
  Rory McGrath
  
  Patrick Rory McGrath is a United Kingdom comedian.He studied at Redruth Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from which he received a third class degree....
   – comedian
• Nettles, John
  John Nettles
  
  John Nettles is an England actor who is best known for playing the main roles in Bergerac and Midsomer Murders....
   – actor
• Payton, Philip
  Philip Payton
  
  Philip John Payton is Professor of Cornwall and Australian Studies at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies based at Tremough, just outside Penryn, Cornwall....
   – Professor of Cornish Studies
• Rescorla, Rick
  Rick Rescorla
  
  Cyril Richard Rescorla , known as Rick Rescorla, was a retired United States United States Army officer of United Kingdom birth who served with distinction in Rhodesia as a British soldier and the Vietnam War as an American officer....
   – 9/11 hero
• Ridgley, Andrew
  Andrew Ridgeley
  
  Andrew John Ridgeley is an England pop music singer, guitarist and environmentalism born to Jennipher and Albert Ridgeley. His mother is British and his father is Egyptian-Italian Andrew came to public attention as a member of the 1980s pop music duet Wham!...
   – singer
• Rowe, Jeff
  Jethro (comedian)
  
  Jethro is the stage name of United Kingdom Stand-up comedy Geoff Rowe, based at Lewdown in Devon. Rowe was born in 1948in St Buryan, a small village in west Cornwall....
   a.k.a. "Jethro" – comedian
• Rowse, A. L.
  A. L. Rowse
  
  Alfred Leslie Rowse, Companion of Honour FBA , known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific Cornish people historian....
   – author
• Richard Tangye
  Richard Tangye
  
  Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye was a United Kingdom manufacturer of engines and other heavy equipment.He was born at Illogan, near Redruth, Cornwall, the son of a small farmer....
   - engineer
• Joseph Treffry
  Joseph Treffry
  
  Joseph Austen Treffry was an engineer, mining adventurer, and industrialist who became a significant landowner in Cornwall, United Kingdom....
   - mine owner
• Tregathen, John (J. C.)
  John Coulson Tregarthen
  
  John Coulson Tregarthen was a British field naturalist, described as "the best loved Cornishman of his time".J.C. Tregarthen was President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall , President of Midland Cornish Association in 1901, Fellow of the Zoological Society, a county councillor and JP, and was made a bard of Gorseth Kernow in 1928, taki...
   – naturalist
• Tregeagle, Jan
  Jan Tregeagle
  
  The historical Jan Tregeagle was a magistrate in the early 17th century, a steward under the Duchy of Cornwall, and was known for being particularly harsh; darker stories circulated as well, that he had murdered his wife or made a pact with the Devil....
   – land agent
• Henry Trengrouse
  Henry Trengrouse
  
  Henry Trengrouse was an Cornish people inventor. He was born in Helston, Cornwall, was educated at the Grammar School, and lived there all of his life, working as a builder and cabinet-maker....
   - engineer
• Trevithick, Richard
  Richard Trevithick
  
  Richard Trevithick was a British nationality inventor, mining engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive....
   – inventor
• Francis Trevithick
  Francis Trevithick
  
  Francis Trevithick , from Camborne, Cornwall, was one of the first locomotive engineers of the London and North Western Railway ....
   - engineer
• John Angarrack
  John Angarrack
  
  John Angarrack is a Cornwall campaigner , human rights activist and author . He is best known for his books Breaking the Chains , Our Future is History and Scat t?Larrups? released on May 15th 2008....
   - author and Cornish historian
• Andrew Vivian
  Andrew Vivian
  
  Andrew Vivian was a Cornish people mechanical engineer, inventor, and mine captain of the famous Dolcoath mine in Cornwall.In partnership with his cousin Richard Trevithick, the inventor of "high pressure" steam engines, and the entrepreneur Davies Gilbert, Vivian financed the production of the first steam carriage and was granted a joint...
   - engineer
• Arthur Woolf
  Arthur Woolf
  
  Arthur Woolf was a Cornish engineer.Woolf left Cornwall in 1785 to work for Joseph Bramah's engineering works in London. He worked there and at other firms as an engineer and engine builder until 1811, when he returned to Cornwall....
   - engineer
• Jenny Agutter
  Jenny Agutter
  
  Jenny Agutter is a BAFTA Awards- and Emmy Awards award-winning England actor best known in recent years for her role as Tessa Phillips in the United Kingdom TV drama series Spooks....
   - actress

Food and drink

• Cornish cuisine
• Cornish pasty
  Pasty
  
  A pasty , less commonly known as tiddly oggy or tiddy oggy, and sometimes as pastie in the United States, is a filled pastry case, commonly associated with Cornwall, United Kingdom....
  
• Clotted cream
  Clotted cream
  
  Clotted cream is a thick yellow cream made by heating unpasteurized cow's milk and then leaving it in shallow pans for several hours. During this time, the cream content rises to the surface and forms 'clots'....
  
• Meadery
  Meadery
  
  A meadery is a winery that produces honey wines or meads.Particularly in Cornwall, a meadery can also refer to a tourist-attraction type of restaurant that serves mead and food with a medieval ambience....
  
• Yarg
  Yarg
  
  Yarg is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese made in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Before being left to mature, this cheese is carefully wrapped in nettle leaves to form an edible, though mouldy, rind....
  
• Stargazy pie
  Stargazy pie
  
  Stargazy pie is a Cornwall, England dish made of baked pilchards and five other kinds of seafish, covered with a pastry crust. The pilchards are arranged with their tails toward the centre of the pie and their heads poking up through the crust around the edge, so that they appear to be gazing skyward....
  
• Swanky beer
• Cornish Gilliflower
  Cornish Gilliflower
  
  The Cornish Gilliflower is a cultivar of apple.It is so named as it was found in Truro, Cornwall around 1800 the word 'gilliflower' being a corruption of a French language word giroflier meaning clove, believed to be a reference to its odour....
  
• Saffron bun
  Saffron bun
  
  In Swedish language lussekatt literally "Lusse cat", which is derived from Lucifer cat and can be traced back to 17th century Germany where they believed the devil, in the shape of a cat would come and beat the children, while Jesus in the form of a child would distribute buns to nice children....
  
• Cornish fairings
  Cornish fairings
  
  Cornish fairings are a type of ginger biscuit commonly found in Cornwall, UK. Their name is said to originate from sweet biscuits that were sold at feast and fair days in Cornwall....
  
• Heavy cake
  Heavy cake
  
  Heavy cake cake is a cake made from flour, lard, butter, milk, sugar and raisins that originated in Cornwall.Its name is derived from the Pilchard industry in Cornwall prior to the 20th century when a 'huer' helped locate shoals of fish....
  
• Hog's pudding
  Hog's pudding
  
  Hog's Pudding is a type of sausage produced in Cornwall and Devon. Some versions of the recipe comprise pork meat and fat, suet, bread, and oatmeal or pearl barley formed into the shape of a large sausage and are very similar to a White pudding, whereas others versions of the recipe contain a high percentage of offal such as lung and liver...
  
• St Austell Brewery
  St Austell Brewery
  
  The St Austell Brewery was founded in 1851 by a young Cornish people man named Walter Hicks. The brewery has been operating for over 150 years in the town of St Austell in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom....
  
• Skinner's Brewery
  Skinner's Brewery
  
  Skinner's is a British brewery founded in 1997 by Steve and Sarah Skinner in Truro, Cornwall, England, UK.Skinner's produce cask ales and bottled beers, many drawing inspiration from Cornish folklore....
  
• Cyder

Geography and geology

• Geology of Lizard, Cornwall
  Geology of Lizard, Cornwall
  
  The Lizard Complex, Cornwall is the best preserved example of an exposed ophiolite complex in the United Kingdom. The rocks found in The Lizard area are analogous to those found in such famous areas as the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus and the Semail Complex, Oman....
  
• List of Special Areas of Conservation in Cornwall
  List of Special Areas of Conservation in Cornwall
  
  The following is a list of Special Areas of Conservation in Cornwall* Breney Common and Goss and Tregoss Moors* Carrine Common* Crowdy Marsh...
  
• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall
  List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall
  
  The following is a list of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall . List of SSSIs by Area of Search.* Aire Point To Carrick Du* Amble Marshes...
  
• Cornwall geography stubs
• Brown Willy effect
  Brown Willy effect
  
  The brown willy effect is a meteorology phenomenon that sometimes occurs across the south-west peninsula of England. It leads to heavy precipitation developing over the high ground of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, which then often travel a considerable distance downwind of their place of origin....
  

Beaches

• Beaches of Penwith
• Carbis Bay
  Carbis Bay
  
  Carbis Bay is a village in the district of Penwith in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Carbis Bay is often considered to be part of Lelant, an older settlement to the south of Carbis Bay, although it is closer to and almost contiguous with St Ives, Cornwall....
  
• Crackington Haven
  Crackington Haven
  
  Crackington Haven is a small village in the parish of St Gennys, at the head of a cove on the Atlantic Ocean coast in North Cornwall, England, UK....
  
• Downderry
  Downderry
  
  Downderry is a coastal village in the Caradon district of South East Cornwall, United Kingdom.Downderry is situated on the B3247 road, 18 miles from Plymouth to the east of Seaton, Cornwall and west of Portwrinkle....
  
• Fistral Beach
  Fistral Beach
  
  Fistral Beach is a major surfing beach of the United Kingdom, located at Newquay, in Cornwall. The beach is particularly straight and is about 2500 feet in length....
  
• Gwithian
  Gwithian
  
  Gwithian is a village in the parish of Gwinear-Gwithian, located in the district of Penwith, in Cornwall, UK. It is located to the east side of St Ives Bay....
  
• Harlyn
  Harlyn
  
  Harlyn is a small village on the north coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom situated by Harlyn Bay. It is is 3 miles from Padstow and approximately 1 mile from the village of St....
  
• Maenporth
  Maenporth
  
  Maenporth is a seaside hamlet with one of the four beaches associated with Falmouth, Cornwall in Cornwall, United Kingdom.The cove faces east and gives distant views on Pendennis Castle and the lighthouse on St Anthony's Head....
  
• Marazion
  Marazion
  
  Marazion is a civil parish and town in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, UK. It lies on the shores of Mount's Bay, two miles east of Penzance, one mile east of the village of Long Rock, and is served by the Great Western Railway....
  
• Mawgan Porth
  Mawgan Porth
  
  Mawgan Porth is a beach and village on the north coast of Cornwall between Porthcothan and Watergate Bay, situated in the civil parish of St Mawgan....
  
• Perranporth
  Perranporth
  
  Perranporth is a popular surfing tourist destination on the north coast of Carrick, Cornwall, Cornwall, United Kingdom, six miles south-west of the surf resort of Newquay and six miles east of that at Porthtowan....
  
• Polzeath
  Polzeath
  
  Polzeath is a small village on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a favoured location for surfing, with waves rolling in from the Atlantic Ocean....
  
• Porthcothan
  Porthcothan
  
  Porthcothan is a coastal village in Cornwall, United Kingdom, situated between Newquay and Padstow. It is within the parish of St Eval. The beach is popular with tourists and surfing and is patrolled by lifeguards during the day in the summer; local surf schools sometimes use the beach for tuition....
  
• Porthcurno
  Porthcurno
  
  Porthcurno is a small village in the parish of St Levan located in a valley on the south coast of Cornwall, England, UK. It is approximately 9 miles to the west of the market town of Penzance and about 3 miles from Land's End, the most westerly point of the English mainland....
  
• Porthleven
  Porthleven
  
  Porthleven is a town, civil parish and fishing port in the Kerrier district of Cornwall, United Kingdom, near Helston. It is the most southerly port on the island of Great Britain and was originally developed as a harbour of refuge, when this part of the Cornish coastline was recognised as a black spot for shipwreck in days of sail....
  
• Porthtowan
  Porthtowan
  
  Porthtowan is a small village in the Carrick, Cornwall district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom and is a popular Summer tourist destination which lies within the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site....
  
• Portreath
  Portreath
  
  Portreath is a village, civil parish and fishing port in the Kerrier district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is spread along a stream valley away from the beach, clinging to both slopes, towards the main centre around the harbour and parade of shops, about 300 metres from the seafront....
  
• Praa Sands
  Praa Sands
  
  Praa Sands is a coastal village in the Parish of Breage, Cornwall, located off the main road between Helston and Penzance in Cornwall, England, UK....
  
• Rame Peninsula
  Rame Peninsula
  
  The Rame Peninsula is a peninsula in south-east Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The peninsula is surrounded by the English Channel to the south, Plymouth Sound to the east, and the estuary of the River Lynher to the north....
  
• Rock, Cornwall
  Rock, Cornwall
  
  Rock is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, located at the estuary on the North-Eastern bank of the River Camel.Rock is a popular destination for tourists and holidaymakers....
  
• Sennen
  Sennen
  
  Sennen is a village and civil parish, in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the settlements of Trevescan, Carn Towan and Sennen as well as Land's End and is bounded by the parishes of St Just in Penwith to the north, St Buryan to the east,St Levan to the south and by the sea in the west....
  
• St Mawes
  St Mawes
  
  St Mawes is a small town opposite Falmouth, Cornwall, on the south coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It lies on the east bank of the Carrick Roads, a large waterway created after the Ice Age from an ancient valley which flooded as the melt waters caused the sea level to rise dramatically, creating an immense natural harbour, the third larg...
  
• Widemouth Bay
  Widemouth Bay
  
  Widemouth Bay is a bay and beach on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Cornwall, England, UK, approximately 3 miles south of Bude. This stretch of coast is steeped in the smuggling history of times before, and not far south of Widemouth Bay can be found many little inlets and coves....
  
• Whitsand Bay
  Whitsand Bay
  
  Whitsand Bay, situated in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom runs from Rame Head in the east to Portwrinkle in the west. It is characterised by sheer, high cliffs, dramatic scenery and long stretches of sandy beaches....
  

Rivers and seas

• Rivers of Cornwall
• Celtic Sea
  Celtic Sea
  
  The Celtic Sea is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland. It is bounded to the east by Saint George's Channel, the Bristol Channel and the English Channel, as well as adjacent portions of Wales, Cornwall, Devon, and Brittany....
  
• Atlantic Ocean
  Atlantic Ocean
  
  The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
  
• River Truro
  River Truro
  
  The Truro River is a river near to the city of Truro in Cornwall, England, UK. It is the product of the convergence of the two rivers named Kenwyn and Allen, which run under the city and flow out into the Carrick Roads....
  
• River Camel
  River Camel
  
  The River Camel is a river in Cornwall, UK. It source on the edge of Bodmin Moor and together with its tributaries drains a considerable part of North Cornwall....
  
• River Fal
  River Fal
  
  The River Fal flows through Cornwall, United Kingdom, rising on the Goss Moor and reaching the English Channel at Falmouth, Cornwall. On or near the banks of the Fal are the castles of Pendennis Castle and St Mawes Castle as well as Trelissick Garden....
  
• River Gannel
  River Gannel
  
  The River Gannel rises in the village of Indian Queens in central Cornwall, United Kingdom. It flows north and becomes a tidal estuary that divides the town of Newquay from village of Crantock ...
  
• Gover Stream
  Gover Stream
  
  The Gover Stream is an approximately three kilometre long stream located in mid south Cornwall in South West England, United Kingdom.The source of the stream is at the north eastern side of Blackpool China clay pit at ....
  
• Hamoaze
  Hamoaze
  
  The Hamoaze is an estuary stretch of water at the point where the tidal River Tamar, the River Tavy, and the River Lynher meet, prior to entering Plymouth Sound....
  
• Helford River
  Helford River
  
  The Helford River is a ria located in Cornwall which passes the Trebah and Glendurgan Garden gardens, and the Durgan village.At the Head of the Helford River is Gweek, containing a boat building and repair centre, and the National Seal Sanctuary, Gweek, where injured Atlantic grey seals are nursed back to health before being released to t...
  
• River Looe
  River Looe
  
  The River Looe is a river in south-east Cornwall, which flows into the English Channel at Looe. It has two main branches, the East Looe River and the West Looe River....
  
• River Lynher
  River Lynher
  
  The River Lynher flows through Cornwall, passing St Germans and enters Plymouth Sound at the Hamoaze.The river is approximately 21 miles , rising at a height of approximately 920 feet on Bodmin Moor and flowing into the Tamar Estuary at Plymouth....
  
• St Austell River
  St Austell River
  
  The St Austell River, also known as 'The White River', is a 12 km long river located in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. The river takes its name from the only town through which it flows, St Austell ....
  
• River Tamar
  River Tamar
  
  The Tamar is a river in south western England, that forms most of the border between Devon and Cornwall . At its mouth, the Tamar flows into the Hamoaze where it joins with the River Lynher before entering Plymouth Sound....
  

Flora and fauna

• Chough
  Chough
  
  The Red-billed Chough or Chough , Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, is a bird in the crow family; it is one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax....
  
• Cornish Gilliflower
  Cornish Gilliflower
  
  The Cornish Gilliflower is a cultivar of apple.It is so named as it was found in Truro, Cornwall around 1800 the word 'gilliflower' being a corruption of a French language word giroflier meaning clove, believed to be a reference to its odour....
  
• Cornish heath
  Cornish heath
  
  The Cornish heath is a species of heath that bears pink flowers and mid-green foliage. This is a shrub, reaching 0.75 m by 0.75 m. Its English name comes from the fact that, in Great Britain, it is only found on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, where the geology of Lizard, Cornwall gives rise to the alkali soils that it favours....
  
• Cornish game hen
  Cornish game hen
  
  A Cornish game hen, also sometimes called a Poussin , Rock Cornish hen, or simply Rock Cornish, is a young chicken sold whole. Despite the name, it is not a game ....
  
• Cornwall Wildlife Trust
  Cornwall Wildlife Trust
  
  The Cornwall Wildlife Trust is a charitable organisation founded in 1962 that is concerned solely with Cornwall, United Kingdom.It deals with the conservation and preservation of Cornwall's wildlife and habitats managing over 50 nature reserves covering approximately 4300 acres , amongst them Looe Island....
  
• The Guild of Cornish Hedgers

Towns and settlements

• Bodmin
  Bodmin
  
  Bodmin is a town in Cornwall, United Kingdom, with a population of 12,778 . It was the county town of Cornwall, until the Crown Courts moved to Truro, which is also the administrative centre....
  
• Bude
  Bude
  
  Bude is a small seaside resort town in North Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the mouth of the River Neet. Bude is twinned with Ergué-Gabéric, France....
  
• Camborne
  Camborne
  
  Camborne was once one of the richest mining areas in the world and is located in north Kerrier, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, forming the western end of the greater Camborne, Pool, Cornwall and Redruth conurbation....
  
• Falmouth
  Falmouth, Cornwall
  
  Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port in the Carrick, Cornwall District on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, UK. It has a total resident population of 21,635....
  
• Hayle
  Hayle
  
  Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish was created in 1888 from part of the now defunct Phillack parish, with which it was later combined in 1935, and incorporated part of St Erth in 1937....
  
• Helston
  Helston
  
  Helston is a small town and civil parish in the Kerrier district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the northern end of the The Lizard. It is the most southerly town in the UK, being 3 km south of Penzance....
  
• Launceston
  Launceston, Cornwall
  
  Launceston is a town, an ancient borough, and a civil parish in the north of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The form 'Lanson' based on the traditional pronunciation is almost obsolete ....
  
• Liskeard
  Liskeard
  
  Liskeard , is an ancient Stannary town and market town at the head of the River Looe valley in the ancient hundred of Wivelshire in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom....
  
• Newquay
  Newquay
  
  Newquay is a town, civil parish, seaside resort and fishing port on the north Atlantic coast of Cornwall, Great Britain. It is bounded to the west by the River Gannel and its associated salt marsh, and in the east by the Porth Valley....
  
• Penzance
  Penzance
  
  Penzance is a town, civil parish, and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, UK.Granted various Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and Incorporation in 1614, it has a population of 20,255 and is currently Penwith's principal town....
  
• Redruth
  Redruth
  
  Redruth is a town and civil parish in the Kerrier , Cornwall, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It lies approximately at the junction of the Great Britain road numbering scheme393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road, the A30 road....
  
• Saltash
  Saltash
  
  Saltash is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a population of about 17,000. It lies in the southeast of Cornwall, facing Plymouth over the River Tamar....
  
• St Austell
  St Austell
  
  St Austell is a town in Cornwall, England, UK.St Austell has a population of 22,658 ]], larger than any other town in Cornwall .As an unparished area, St Austell does not have a town council or parish council, however it is the site of Restormel Borough Council's headquarters....
  
• St Ives
  St Ives, Cornwall
  
  St Ives is a seaside resort, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne....
  
• Truro
  Truro
  
  Truro is a City status in the United Kingdom in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, and is the centre for administration, leisure and retail in Cornwall, with a population of 20,920....
  
• Wadebridge
  Wadebridge
  
  Wadebridge is a town in North Cornwall, England, UK, located on the River Camel Estuary some 5 miles upstream from Padstow. For many years Wadebridge was a traffic congested town but in 1991 the Wadebridge bypass was opened together with the Egloshayle bypass causing the two settlements to regain much of their former charm....
  
• List of places in Cornwall
  List of places in Cornwall
  
  This is a list of all the towns and villages of Cornwall, United Kingdom. This also includes places in the Isles of Scilly. See List of places in England for lists of settlements in other counties....
  
• Villages in Cornwall

History

• Timeline of Cornish history?
• Celt
  Celt
  
  Celts , is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic languages. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the Modern Celts of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture....
  
• Cornish currency
  Cornish currency
  
  One early story tells that the Cornish people raised the money by popular subscription to pay a ransom for the release of the Duke of Cornwall, Richard the Lionheart....
  
• Cornovii (Cornish)
  Cornovii (Cornish)
  
  The Cornovii were a Celtic tribe who inhabited the far South West peninsula of Great Britain, during the Iron Age, Roman Britain and sub-Roman Britain periods and gave their name to Cornwall or Kernow....
  
• Celtic nations
  Celtic nations
  
  Celtic nations are areas of modern northwest Europe which identify themselves with the Celtic cultures, specifically speakers of Celtic languages....
  
• Cornish saints
• Kingdom of Cornwall
  Kingdom of Cornwall
  
  The Kingdom of Dumnonia somes retroactively dubbed the Kingdom of Cornwall, was a petty kingdom that existed during the sub-Roman Britain and Early Middle Ages in Great Britain's West Country peninsula; it was roughly in the area of what is today called Cornwall and Devon....
  
• Hundreds of Cornwall
  Hundreds of Cornwall
  
  Cornwall was from Anglo-Saxon times until the 19th century divided into Hundred , some with the suffix shire as in Pydarshire, East and West Wivelshire and Powdershire which were first recorded as names between 1184-1187....
  
• Maps of Cornwall
  Maps of Cornwall
  
  Cornwall was originally known as Kernow or West Wales and this name applied to the Kingdom of Cornwall during the period of the Heptarchy . One of the oldest maps still in existence depicting Cornwall is the 1290 Hereford Mappa Mundi currently on display in Hereford Cathedral in the United Kingdom....
  
• Penwith (hundred)
  Penwith (hundred)
  
  The Hundred of Penwith was the name of one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall, England. The ancient hundred of Penwith was bigger in size than the current local government district of Penwith which takes its name....
  
• Kerrier (hundred)
  Kerrier (hundred)
  
  The Hundred of Kerrier was the name of one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall, England.St Anthony-in-Meneage, Breage, Cornwall, Budock, Constantine, Kerrier, Cury, Germoe, St Gluvias, Grade, Gunwalloe alias Winnington, Gwennap with St Day, St Keverne, Landewednack, Mabe, Cornwall, Manaccan, St Martin-in-Meneage, Mawgan-in-Me...
  
• Triggshire
  Triggshire
  
  The hundred of Trigg was one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall - see "Hundreds of Cornwall". It was in the north of Cornwall, and covered Wadebridge, Bodmin Moor and Bodmin town ....
   (hundred)
• Robert, Count of Mortain
  Robert, Count of Mortain
  
  Robert, Count of Mortain was the half-brother of William I of England.Robert was the son of Herluin de Conteville and Herleva and was full brother to the infamous Odo of Bayeux....
  
• Duchy of Cornwall
  Duchy of Cornwall
  
  The Duchy of Cornwall is, with the Duchy of Lancaster, one of the two Royal duchy in the United Kingdom. The eldest son of the reigning Monarchy of the United Kingdom inherits the duchy and title of Duke of Cornwall at the time of his birth ....
  
• Duchies in the United Kingdom
• Legendary Dukes of Cornwall
  Legendary Dukes of Cornwall
  
  Legendary Duke of Cornwall appear in pseudo-historical authors as Nennius and Geoffrey of Monmouth. The list is extremely patchy, and not every succession was unbroken....
  
• Cornish Uprising of 1497
  Cornish Rebellion of 1497
  
  The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 was a Popular revolt in late medieval Europe by the people of Cornwall in the far south west of Great Britain. Its primary cause was the raising of war taxes by King Henry VII of England on the impoverished Cornish people for a campaign against Scotland, motivated by brief border skirmishes that were inspired...
  
• Cornish Uprising of 1497 - An Gof
  Michael An Gof
  
  Michael Joseph and Thomas Flamank were the leaders of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.The rebels marched on London to protest at King Henry VII of England's levying a tax to pay for an invasion of Scotland in retaliation for the Scots' support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck....
  
• Cornish Uprising of 1497 - Thomas Flamank
  Thomas Flamank
  
  Thomas Flamank was a lawyer from Cornwall who together with Michael An Gof led the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 against taxes in 1497.The Cornish believed their distance from Scotland – on whom the war taxes were to be used against – was too far from Cornwall to concern them, so refused to pay....
  
• Second Cornish Uprising of 1497
  Second Cornish Uprising of 1497
  
  The Second Cornish Uprising is the name given to the Cornish people uprising of September 1497 when the pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay , near Land's End, on 7 September with just 120 men in two ships....
  
• Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715
  Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715
  
  The Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715 was the last uprising against The Crown to take place in the county of Cornwall....
  
• Cornish Foreshore Case
  Cornish Foreshore Case
  
  The Cornish Foreshore Case was a case of arbitration between the Crown and the Duchy of Cornwall between 1854 and 1858. Officers of the Duchy successfully argued that the Duchy enjoyed many of the rights and prerogatives of a county palatine and that although the Duke of Cornwall was not granted Royal jurisdiction, was considered to be quasi-...
  
• Keskerdh Kernow 500
  Keskerdh Kernow 500
  
  Keskerdh Kernow was a commemorative march which retraced the original route of the Cornish from St. Keverne to Blackheath, London, London, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497, sometimes known as the Battle of Deptford Bridge or the Battle of Blackheath, London....
  
• Perkin Warbeck
  Perkin Warbeck
  
  Perkin Warbeck was a pretender to the England throne during the reign of King Henry VII of England. Traditional belief claims that he was an impostor, pretending to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV of England, but was in fact a Flemings born in Tournai around 1474....
  
• Act of Uniformity 1549
  Act of Uniformity 1549
  
  The Act of Uniformity 1549 established The Book of Common Prayer as the sole legal form of worship in England. Before 1549, the churches of England continued to use a slightly altered version of the Latin-language Missal....
  
• Cornish Uprising of 1549
  Prayer Book Rebellion
  
  The Prayer Book Rebellion, Prayer Book Revolt, Prayer Book Rising, Western Rising or Western Rebellion was a popular revolt in Cornwall and Devon, in 1549....
  
• Battle of Lostwithiel
  Battle of Lostwithiel
  
  There were two Battles of Lostwithiel, both in the First English Civil War in the 1640s....
  
• Cornwall (territorial duchy)
  Cornwall (territorial duchy)
  
  Cornwall as a territorial Duchy has its roots in 1068 when the Earl of Cornwall was formed and existed until 1336 to maintain a form of independence for Kernow from Wessex ....
  
• Cornwall in the English Civil War
  Cornwall in the English Civil War
  
  Cornwall played a significant role in the English Civil War, as it was a Cavalier enclave in the generally Parliamentarian south-west. The reason for this was that Cornwall's rights and privileges were tied up with the royal Duchy and Stannaries and the Cornish saw the Civil War as a fight between England and Cornwall as much as a conf...
  
• The Gear Rout
  The Gear Rout
  
  The Gear Rout was a Cornwall insurrection of 1648 following the end of the English Civil War. It involved some 500 Cornish rebels who fought on the Royalist side against the Parliamentarian forces of Sir Hardress Waller....
  
• Stateless nation
  Stateless nation
  
  A stateless nation is a political term used to imply that a group, usually a minority ethnic group, is a nation, and is entitled to its own state, specifically a nation-state for that nation....
  
• Dumnonia
  Dumnonia
  
  Dumnonia was a Brythonic kingdom of sub-Roman Britain, located in the West Country of modern England and covering Devon, most of Somerset and possibly part of Dorset, its eastern boundary being uncertain....
  
• Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament
  Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament
  
  The Cornish Stannary Parliament is a pressure group which claims to be a revived Stannary Courts and Parliaments. It was established in 1974 and has campaigned since then against the government of the United Kingdom's position on the constitutional status of Cornwall....
  
• Stannary Courts and Parliaments
  Stannary Courts and Parliaments
  
  The Stannary Parliaments and Stannary Courts were legislative and legal institutions in Cornwall and in West Devon , England. The Stannary Courts administered Equity for the region's tin-miners and tin mining interests, and they were also Court of record for the towns dependent on the mines....
  
• Stannary town
• Cornish emigration
  Cornish emigration
  
  Cornish emigration consists of Cornwall emigrants and their descendants in other parts of Great Britain and in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and Chile....
  
• Battle of Deorham
  Battle of Deorham
  
  The Battle of Deorham was fought in southwestern Britain in 577, between the Saxons of Wessex and the Brython to their west. Deorham is usually taken to refer to Dyrham in South Gloucestershire, on the Cotswold escarpment a few miles north of Bath, Somerset....
  
• Torrey Canyon
  Torrey Canyon
  
  The Torrey Canyon was a supertanker capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, which was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall England in March 1967 causing an environmental disaster....
  
• Penlee lifeboat disaster
  Penlee lifeboat disaster
  
  The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the coast of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, when the Penlee Point, Mousehole Lifeboat went to the aid of the stricken Coastal trading vessel Union Star in heavy seas....
  
• POW Camp 115, Whitecross, St. Columb Major
  POW Camp 115, Whitecross, St. Columb Major
  
  POW Camp 115 was a prisoner of war camp during World War II in the locality of Whitecross near St Columb Major in Cornwall. It was built next to the railway track and covered an area of approximately 12 acres....
  
• The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
  Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
  
  The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry was formed in 1959 by the merger of two regiments:*The Somerset Light Infantry *The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry...
  
• Newlyn riots
  Newlyn riots
  
  The Newlyn riots were a major civil disturbance that occurred in Newlyn, Cornwall, UK between the 18th May and 20th of May 1896....
  
• Glasney College
  Glasney College
  
  Glasney College was founded at Penryn, Cornwall, Cornwall in 1265 by Walter Branscombe and was the centre of ecclesiastical power in Cornwall's Middle Ages and probably the best known and most important of Cornwall's monastic institutions....
  
• Cornish settlement in South Australia
  Copper Coast
  
  Copper Coast is a region of South Australia situated in Northern Yorke Peninsula and comprising the towns of Wallaroo, South Australia, Kadina, South Australia, Moonta, South Australia, Paskeville, South Australia and Port Hughes, South Australia....
  

Icons

• Saint Piran's Flag
  Saint Piran's Flag
  
  Saint Piran's Flag is the flag of Cornwall. The banner of Saint Piran is a vertical white cross on a black background. Saint Piran is supposed to have adopted these two colours from seeing the molten tin spilling out of the black ore in his fire....
  
• The Song of the Western Men
  The Song of the Western Men
  
  "The Song of the Western Men" was written by Robert Stephen Hawker, and is also known by the title of "Trelawny".Hawker wrote the song in 1824, telling of events that took place in 1688....
  
• Bro Goth Agan Tasow
  Bro Goth Agan Tasow
  
  Bro Goth Agan Tasow is one of the anthems of Cornwall. It is sung to the same tune as the Wales national anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. The Brittany anthem Bro Gozh ma Zado? also uses the same tune....
  

Isles of Scilly

• West Cornwall Steam Ship Company
  West Cornwall Steam Ship Company
  
  The West Cornwall Steam Ship Company was established in 1870 to operate ferry services between Penzance, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly....
  
• History of the Isles of Scilly
• Islands in the Isles of Scilly
• Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly: category, list
  List of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly
  
  The list of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly is a list of ships sank on or near the Isles of Scilly. The list includes ships that sustained a damaged hull, later being refloated and repaired....
  
• Transport in the Isles of Scilly
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the Isles of Scilly

Language

• Agan Tavas
  Agan Tavas
  
  Agan Tavas is a society which exists to promote the Cornish language. It was formed in 1987 to promote the use of Cornish as a spoken language....
  
• Kernow - Cornish language
• Doronieth Kernewek
• Lyenn Kernewek
• Emmet (Cornish)
  Emmet
  
  Emmet may refer to:...
  
• Kesva an Taves Kernewek
  Kesva an Taves Kernewek
  
  Kesva an Taves Kernewek is a representative body promoting the Cornish language. It was founded in 1967 by Gorseth Kernow and the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies as a language planning and examining authority....
  
• Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek
  Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek
  
  Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek is a Cornish language association which exists to promote,encourage and foster the use of the Cornish language.Unlike other Cornish language organisations, Kowethas an Yeth...
  
• List of Cornish dialect words
  List of Cornish dialect words
  
  West Country dialects of English language and Cornish words - some of these terms are obsolete, but some are in current use.*Aglets - Hawthorn berries...
  
• Cornish Language Council (Cussel an Tavas Kernuak)
  Cornish Language Council
  
  The Cornish Language Council is an organisation promoting the revival of the Cornish language. The CLC encourages research into the Cornish of all periods but supports the teaching and dissemination of modern rather than medieval Cornish....
  
• Dalleth
  Dalleth
  
  Dalleth was a support organisation for parents and families bringing up children to speak Cornish_language. It organised camps and other children's activities, mostly during Cornish Language related events....
  
• Celtic languages
  Celtic languages
  
  The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic", a branch of the greater Indo-European languages language family. The term "Celtic" was used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, having much earlier been used by Greek and Roman writers to describe tribes in central Gaul....
  
• European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
  European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
  
  The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is a European treaty adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional language and minority languages in Europe....
  
• Cornish Language Controversy
  Cornish Language Controversy
  
  A controversy about the legitimacy and form of the Modern Cornish language, analogous to those surrounding Hebrew since the Haskalah, or Modern Greek....
  
• Bernard Deacon
  Bernard Deacon
  
  Bernard W. Deacon is multidisciplinary academic, based at the Institute of Cornish Studies of the University of Exeter at the Tremough University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus....
  
• John Boson (writer)
  John Boson (writer)
  
  John Boson was a writer in the Cornish language. The son of Nicholas Boson, he was born in Paul, Cornwall. He taught Cornish to William Gwavas....
  
• Nicholas Boson
  Nicholas Boson
  
  Nicholas Boson was a writer in, and preserver of, the Cornish language. He was born in Newlyn to a landowning and merchant family involved in the pilchard fisheries....
  
• Henry Jenner
  Henry Jenner
  
  File:Henjenner.jpgHenry Jenner Society of Antiquaries of London was a Celtic languages scholar, Cornwall cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival....
  
• E.G. Retallack Hooper
  E.G. Retallack Hooper
  
  E.G. Retallack Hooper was a Cornish people writer and journalist from St Agnes, Cornwall who became the third Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow in 1959 to 1964....
  
• Kernowek Standard
  Kernowek Standard
  
  Kernowek Standard is a variety of revived Cornish language. Developed gradually by a group called UdnFormScrefys , it was published as a proposal in a series of revisions....
  
• Standard Written Form
  Standard Written Form
  
  The Standard Written Form of the Cornish language is an orthography standard that is designed to "provide public bodies and the educational system with a universally acceptable, inclusive, and neutral orthography"....
  
• Kernowyon
• Ken George
  Ken George
  
  Kenneth J. George, writing as Ken George, is an oceanographer and linguist noted as being the originator of Kernewek Kemmyn, an orthography for the Cornish language supporters claimed to be more faithful to Middle Cornish phonology than its precursor ....
  
• Robert Morton Nance
  Robert Morton Nance
  
  Robert Morton Nance Born in Cardiff of Cornish parents. Nance moved to Cornwall in 1906 where he lived at the village of Nancledra near St Ives, Cornwall....
  
• Cornish language Wikipedia
• Massen Wlesik
• Henhwedhlow Kernewek
• Ilow Gernewek
• Tornyaseth yn Kernow
• Trevow yn Kernow
• Ordinalia?
• Languages of the United Kingdom
• Rod Lyon
  Rod Lyon
  
  Rod Lyon was born in Cornwall and trained as a civil engineer. After spending some early years at sea, he worked until retirement as a Local Government Officer....
  
• Kernewek Kemmyn
  Kernewek Kemmyn
  
  Kernewek Kemmyn is a variety of the revived Cornish language.Kernewek Kemmyn was developed, mainly by Ken George, from Unified Cornish in 1986....
  
• Modern Cornish
  Modern Cornish
  
  Modern Cornish is one of the varieties of revived Cornish language. It is sometimes called Revived Late Cornish or Kernuack Dewethas, to distinguish it from other forms of contemporary revived Cornish....
  
• Richard Gendall
  Richard Gendall
  
  Richard Gendall is an expert on the Cornish language, born in 1924. He is the founder of "Modern Cornish"/Curnoack Nowedga, which split off during the 1980s....
  
• List of Cornish dialect words
  List of Cornish dialect words
  
  West Country dialects of English language and Cornish words - some of these terms are obsolete, but some are in current use.*Aglets - Hawthorn berries...
  
• Nicholas Williams
  Nicholas Williams
  
  Nicholas Jonathan Anselm Williams , writing as Nicholas Williams or sometimes N.J.A. Williams, is a leading expert on the Cornish language....
  
• Vanessa Beeman
  Vanessa Beeman
  
  Vanessa Beeman was born in Nairobi and at a younger age lived in Tanzania. When visiting Cornwall she stayed with her grandfather, Sidney Hocking, who was Cornish people and had Henry Jenner's "A Handbook of the Cornish Language" amongst his Cornish book collection....
  
• Unified Cornish
  Unified Cornish
  
  Unified Cornish is a variety of revived Cornish language. Developed gradually by Morton Nance during and before the 1930s, it derived its name from its standardisation of the variant spellings of traditional Cornish MSS....
  

Media

• Cornish Guardian
  Cornish Guardian
  
  Cornish Guardian is a weekly newspaper in Cornwall, UK.It is on sale on Wednesdays.It is published in 7 separate editions:North Cornwall edition...
  
• BBC Radio Cornwall
  BBC Radio Cornwall
  
  BBC Radio Cornwall is the BBC Local Radio service for the Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, also covering the Isles of Scilly. It broadcasts from its studios in Truro on 95.2, 96.0 and 103.9 FM, as well as on Digital Audio Broadcasting....
  
• Pirate FM
  Pirate FM
  
  Pirate FM is one of the Independent Local Radio stations for Cornwall. It plays a range of music styles from 60's to present day....
  
• Atlantic FM
  Atlantic FM
  
  Atlantic FM, is a radio station based in and serving Cornwall, United Kingdom. The station, owned by Atlantic Broadcasting Ltd, began broadcasting on July 6, 2006 at 0730 BST, and is broadcast from St Agnes, Cornwall....
  
• Western Morning News
  Western Morning News
  
  The Western Morning News is a politically independent daily regional newspaper covering Devon and Cornwall and parts of Somerset and Dorset....
  
• Cornwall Film Festival
  Cornwall Film Festival
  
  The Cornwall Film Festival is an annual festival started in 2001 which focuses on Cornwall film making, offering local and national premieres, and hosts masterclasses, workshops and discussions for everyone from the enthusiast to the professional....
  
• Caradon Hill transmitting station
• Redruth transmitting station
• Cornwall Film Locations
  Cornwall film locations
  
  Cornwall's rugged landscape and scenery has been used by film and television companies as a backdrop for their productions. The most recent high-profile film to be made partly in Cornwall was the 2002 James Bond blockbuster, Die Another Day starring Pierce Brosnan, which was shot at Holywell Bay near Newquay and at the Eden Project near St Aust...
  
• South West Film Studios
  South West Film Studios
  
  The South West Film Studios were built in 2002 at St Agnes, Cornwall in Cornwall and soon become known locally as "Aggiewood". Costing ?5.7m to construct in total, the complex was one of the highest-profile Cornish projects backed by European Objective One funding, receiving nearly ?2 million while the rest of the money came from the private...
  
• Twelveheads Press
  Twelveheads Press
  
  Twelveheads Press is an independent publishing company based in Chacewater near Truro, Cornwall. Best known for their Cornish heritage series but also well known by scholars and enthusiasts for their transportation and mining books....
  

Mining

• Geology of Cornwall
  Geology of Cornwall
  
  The Geology of Cornwall is dominated by its granite backbone formed during the Variscan orogeny. Around this is an extensive Metamorphism#Contact metamorphism formed in the mainly Devonian slates that make up most of the rest of the county....
  
• Camborne School of Mines
  Camborne School of Mines
  
  The Camborne School of Mines , commonly abbreviated to CSM, is a specialist department of the University of Exeter. Its research and teaching is related to the understanding and management of the Earth's natural processes, resources and the environment....
  
• Crown Mines
  Crown Mines
  
  The Crown Mines are two mining engine houses in the village of Botallack in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, at the end of a track to the cliffs there....
  
• Dolcoath mine
  Dolcoath mine
  
  Dolcoath mine was a tin and copper mine in Camborne in West Cornwall, with its name coming from the Cornish language for 'Old Ground', and was affectionately know as The Queen of Cornish Mines....
  
• South Crofty
  South Crofty
  
  South Crofty is a wikt:metalliferous mine in Cornwall, UK that has seen production for over 400 years. It extends almost two and a half miles across and down and has mined over 40 lodes....
  
• Wheal Jane
  Wheal Jane
  
  Wheal Jane was a tin mine near Baldhu and Chacewater in Carrick, Cornwall Cornwall. The area itself consisted of a large number of mines....
  
• Geevor Tin Mine
  Geevor Tin Mine
  
  Geevor Tin Mine was a tin Mining in the far south west of Cornwall, between the villages of Pendeen and Trewellard. It was operational between 1909 and 1991 during which time it produced about 50,000 tons of black tin....
  
• Mount Wellington Tin Mine
  Mount Wellington Tin Mine
  
  Mount Wellington Tin mine in Cornwall opened in 1976 and was the first new Mining in the region in many years .With the fall of tin prices and the withdrawal of pumping subsidies, the mine finally closed in 1991....
  
• King Edward Mine
  King Edward Mine
  
  The King Edward Mine is a mine wholly owned by the Camborne School of Mines of the University of Exeter.At the end of the 19th century students at the Camborne School of Mines spent much of their time doing practical mining and Ore dressing work in the local tin mines....
  
• Levant Mine & Beam Engine
  Levant Mine & Beam Engine
  
  File:Levant-Mine-by-John-Gibson.jpgFile:Lelant Engine.jpgLevant Mine & Beam Engine is a working steam-powered beam engine situated in Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, and a National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty property....
  
• Associateship of the Camborne School of Mines (ACSM)
  Associateship of the Camborne School of Mines (ACSM)
  
  Associateship of the Camborne School of Mines or ACSM is an award of the Camborne School of Mines Trust.Candidates successfully completing programmes of study in the Camborne School of Mines leading to degrees of the University of Exeter are eligible for additional awards made by the Senate of the University of Exeter on behalf of the...
  
• CSM Association
  CSM Association
  
  The Camborne School of Mines Association was formed for all alumni of the School and is an independent, self-governing organisation which finances itself entirely, mostly through members' subscriptions....
  
• Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
  Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
  
  The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society is an educational, cultural and scientific Charitable_organization#United_Kingdom, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom....
  
• Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
  Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
  
  The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall is a geological society based in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1814 to promote the study of the Geology of Cornwall, and is the second oldest geological society in the world....
  
• School of Metalliferous Mining
• The Miners Association
  The Miners Association
  
  The Miners Association was founded in 1858 by Robert Hunt Fellow of the Royal Society, and the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.The Association was formed to create a body that would discuss, develop, address the needs and represent the hard rock mining industry within the south west region of the United Kingdom....
  
• National Association of Mining History Organisations
  National Association of Mining History Organisations
  
  The National Association of Mining History Organisations, or NAMHO, was formed in 1979 to promote the interests of mining historians and those organisations which seek to preserve the relics of the mining past of the United Kingdom....
  
• Cornish Mines & Engines
  Cornish Mines & Engines
  
  Cornish Mines & Engines is a collection of engine houses and an industrial heritage discovery centre located in Pool, Cornwall, near Redruth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, and in the ownership of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty....
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• Lostwithiel Stannary Palace
  Lostwithiel Stannary Palace
  
  The Stannary Palace, circa 1265-1300, is reputed to be the oldest non-ecclesiastical building in Cornwall and was said to have been built as a replica of the Great Hall of Westminster....
  
• Cornish stamps

Places of interest

• Aire Point to Carrick Du SSSI
  Aire Point to Carrick Du SSSI
  
  Aire Point to Carrick Du SSSI is a Site of Special Scientific Interest on the Penwith Peninsula, Cornwall. It is 5.98 square kilometres in extent, stretching from to ....
  
• Ballowall Barrow
  Ballowall Barrow
  
  Ballowall Barrow is a Bronze Age chambered tomb, or cairn, near St Just in Penwith in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Excavated in 1878 by William Borlase, the barrow is in diameter....
  
• Bodmin and Wenford Railway
  
  *Bodmin Gaol
  Bodmin Gaol
  
  Bodmin Gaol is a tourist attraction and former prison situated in Bodmin, on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Now partially in ruins, the building displays small exhibits of infamous villains taken captive in Bodmin and offers a grim view into the criminal culture of Cornwall in days gone by....
  
• Bodmin Moor
  Bodmin Moor
  
  Bodmin Moor is a granite moorland in northeastern Cornwall, United Kingdom, 208 km? in size, dating from the Carboniferous period of geology history....
   
  
  *Bolventor
  Bolventor
  
  Bolventor is a hamlet on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is bypassed by a dual carriageway section of the A30 road between Launceston, Cornwall and Bodmin, Cornwall....
  
• Brown Willy
  Brown Willy
  
  Brown Willy is a hill in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The summit is the highest point of Bodmin Moor and of Cornwall as a whole.The name is sometimes suggested to come from bron ughella meaning "highest hill", as it is the highest point in Cornwall, but Weatherhill disagrees....
  
• Camborne-Redruth
  Camborne-Redruth
  
  Camborne-Redruth was an urban district in Cornwall, United Kingdom, from 1934 to 1974. It was formed as a merger of Camborne and Redruth urban districts along with parts of Redruth Rural District and Helston Rural District ....
  
• Carn Brea
  Carn Brea
  
  Carn Brea is a civil parish and hilltop site near Redruth in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, famous for its long history of human occupation....
  
• Carn Euny
  Carn Euny
  
  Carn Euny is an archaeological site near Sancreed, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, United Kingdom with considerable evidence of both Iron Age and post-Iron Age settlement....
  
• Carn Marth
  Carn Marth
  
  Carn Marth is the name of a hill in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, near Redruth in the Kerrier district. It is high, and is well known for the granite quarry from it in the past....
  
• Carrick Roads
  Carrick Roads
  
  Carrick Roads is located on the southern Cornwall coast in the UK, near Falmouth, Cornwall. It is a large waterway created after the Ice age from an ancient valley which flooded as the melt waters caused the sea level to rise dramatically , creating a large natural harbour which is navigable from Falmouth to Truro....
  
• Castle An Dinas
  
  *Castle Dore
  Castle Dore
  
  Castle Dore is an Iron Age and early mediaeval hill fort near Fowey in Cornwall, United Kingdom located at ....
  
• Chûn Castle
  Chûn Castle
  
  Ch?n Castle is a large Iron Age hillfort near Penzance in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Built around two and a half thousand years ago, the castle fell into disuse until the 6th century AD and was possibly reoccupied to protect the nearby tin minings....
   
  
  *Chûn Quoit
  Chûn Quoit
  
  The best preserved of all Dolmen in Cornwall, UK is Ch?n Quoit, located in open moorland near Pendeen and Madron, Penzance. The uphill walk is worthwhile because this is perhaps the most visually satisfying of all the quoits....
   
  
  *Chysauster Ancient Village
  Chysauster Ancient Village
  
  Chysauster Ancient Village is Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which is currently in the care of English Heritage....
  
• Commando Ridge, Bosigran
• Cotehele
  Cotehele
  
  File:Koesheyl 1.jpgFile:Cotehele, house from courtyard.jpgCotehele, , is a Medieval architecture/Tudor Style architecture house located in the parish of Calstock, inCaradon, Cornwall, England, UK....
   
  
  *Dozmary Pool
  Dozmary Pool
  
  Dozmary Pool is a small lake on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, UK. It lies about 15 km northeast of Bodmin and 2 km south of Bolventor: it originated in the post-glacial period....
  
• Drift Reservoir
  Drift Reservoir
  
  Drift Reservoir is a reservoir in Penwith district, Cornwall, UK, just north of Drift, Cornwall village, southwest of Penzance. The reservoir is approximately a mile long....
  
• Dupath Well
  Dupath Well
  
  Dupath Well is a nearly intact wellhouse, constructed of local granite, built over a Spring . It is located at just outside the town of Callington, Cornwall in east Cornwall, United Kingdom....
  
• Eden Project
  Eden Project
  
  The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse.The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite clay pit, located from the town of St Blazey and from the larger town of St Austell, Cornwall, England....
  
• Fistral Beach
  Fistral Beach
  
  Fistral Beach is a major surfing beach of the United Kingdom, located at Newquay, in Cornwall. The beach is particularly straight and is about 2500 feet in length....
  
• Glendurgan Garden
  Glendurgan Garden
  
  Glendurgan Garden is a National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty garden situated above the Helford River in Mawnan Smith, North Falmouth, Cornwall, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom....
   
  
  *Godrevy Island
  
  *Goonhilly Downs
  Goonhilly Downs
  
  Goonhilly Downs is a Site of Special Scientific Interest that forms a raised plateau in the central western area of the The Lizard in Cornwall....
  
• Goss Moor NNR
  Goss Moor NNR
  
  Goss moor is a National Nature Reserves in England in Cornwall, located in the parishes of St Dennis, Cornwall, St. Columb Major, Roche, Cornwall and St....
  
• Gweek seal sanctuary
  National Seal Sanctuary, Gweek
  
  Gweek Seal Sanctuary is a charity funded sanctuary for injured pinniped pups. It is situated on the banks of the Helford River in Cornwall, England, UK and there is a road along the creek from the centre of Gweek village to the sanctuary's large car park....
  
• Halliggye Fogou
  Halliggye Fogou
  
  Halliggye Fogou is one of many fogou in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Located in Trelowarren estate, near Helston, it consists of a long narrow tunnel leading to three sectioned chambers, and a window-like entrance which was dug in victorian times by supposed treasure hunters ....
  
• Helford
  Helford
  
  Helford is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Situated on the south side of the Helford River, it is home to a pub, village stores, sailing club and other amenities....
  
• Helford River
  Helford River
  
  The Helford River is a ria located in Cornwall which passes the Trebah and Glendurgan Garden gardens, and the Durgan village.At the Head of the Helford River is Gweek, containing a boat building and repair centre, and the National Seal Sanctuary, Gweek, where injured Atlantic grey seals are nursed back to health before being released to t...
  
• Helford Passage
  Helford Passage
  
  Helford Passage is a small village in Cornwall, England, UK, close to the mouth of the picturesque, heavily wooded Helford River. There is a pub and holiday cottages, with the gardens at Trebah, the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty's Glendurgan Garden, a short walk away....
  
• The Hurlers
  The Hurlers (stone circles)
  
  The Hurlers is the name of a group of three stone circles on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The circles were first noted by historian John Norden in 1584 and the first detailed description was made by William Borlase in 1754....
   
  
  *King Doniert's Stone
  King Doniert's Stone
  
  King Doniert's Stone consists of two pieces of a decorated 9th century cross. The inscription is believed to commemorate Donyarth, Kingdom of Cornwall who died in 876....
  
• King Edward Mine
  King Edward Mine
  
  The King Edward Mine is a mine wholly owned by the Camborne School of Mines of the University of Exeter.At the end of the 19th century students at the Camborne School of Mines spent much of their time doing practical mining and Ore dressing work in the local tin mines....
  
• Kit Hill Country Park
• Kynance Cove
  Kynance Cove
  
  Kynance Cove is an inlet on the The Lizard peninsula in south-west Cornwall, England, UK. It is known for its rugged cliffs, white sand and turquoise water....
   
  
  *Land's End
  Land's End
  
  Land's End is a Headlands and bays on the Penwith peninsula, located near Penzance in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is the most Extreme points of the United Kingdom tip of the southern mainland ....
   
  
  *Lanhydrock House
  Lanhydrock House
  
  Lanhydrock is a large country mansion near Bodmin in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is situated in extensive grounds above the River Fowey and is today managed by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, in whose ownership it has been since 1953....
   
  
  *Lanyon Quoit
  Lanyon Quoit
  
  Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall. It stands next to the road leading from Madron to Morvah. In the 18th century, the structure was tall enough for a person on horse back to stand under....
   
  
  *Lappa Valley Steam Railway
  Lappa Valley Steam Railway
  
  The Lappa Valley Steam Railway is a minimum gauge railway located near Newquay in Cornwall. The railway functions as a tourist attraction, running from Benny Halt to East Wheal Rose where there is a leisure area....
  
• Launceston Castle
  Launceston Castle
  
  Launceston Castle is located in the town of Launceston, Cornwall, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. .The castle is a Norman architecture motte and bailey earthwork castle raised by Robert, Count of Mortain, half-brother of William the Conqueror shortly after the Norman conquest, possibly as early as 1067....
  
• The Lizard
  The Lizard
  
  The Lizard is a peninsula of Cornwall, and contains the Extreme points of the United Kingdom of mainland Cornwall and of the island Great Britain, Lizard Point, Cornwall....
   
  
  *Lizard Point, Cornwall
  Lizard Point, Cornwall
  
  Lizard Point in Cornwall is the southernmost tip of the The Lizard. It is the southernmost tip of Great Britain, at 49?57' N, and, with the exception of parts of the Isles of Scilly is the Extreme points of the United Kingdom of England....
  
• Loe Pool
• Lost Gardens of Heligan
  Lost Gardens of Heligan
  
  The Lost Gardens of Heligan, near Mevagissey in Cornwall, are one of the most popular botanical gardens in the United Kingdom. Originally the gardens were part of the Heligan estate owned by the Cornish Tremayne family....
  
• Mên-an-Tol
  Mên-an-Tol
  
  The M?n-an-Tol is a small formation of standing stones near the Madron-Morvah road in the Penwith area of Cornwall, United Kingdom . It is about 3 miles north west of Madron....
   
  
  *Mevagissey
  Mevagissey
  
  Mevagissey is a village and fishing port situated six miles south of St Austell in Cornwall, England, UK. In recent years tourism has passed fishing as the dominant industry in the village....
  
• Minack Theatre
  Minack Theatre
  
  The Minack Theatre is an open-air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea . The theatre is located near Porthcurno, 4 miles from Land's End in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom....
  
• Mount Edgcumbe Country Park
  Mount Edgcumbe Country Park
  
  Mount Edgcumbe Country Park is one of four designated Country Parks in Cornwall. It is situated on the Rame Peninsula, overlooking Plymouth Sound and the River Tamar....
  
• Mount's Bay
  Mount's Bay
  
  Mount's Bay is a large, sweeping bay on the English Channel coast of Cornwall in the United Kingdom, stretching from the Lizard Point, Cornwall to the eastern side of the Land's End peninsula....
  
• Mullion Cove
  Mullion Cove
  
  Mullion Cove is a harbour village in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is located on the west side of the The Lizard facing west into Mount's Bay ....
   
  
  *Mylor Bridge
  Mylor Bridge
  
  Mylor Bridge is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom with a population of about 1000. It is about 5 km north of Falmouth, Cornwall as the crow flies but about 8 km by road....
  
• Pencarrow
  Pencarrow
  
  Pencarrow is a country house in Cornwall, England, UK. Situated between Bodmin and Wadebridge, the house is approached by a driveway of almost one-mile....
  
• Pendennis Castle
  Pendennis Castle
  
  Pendennis Castle is a castle in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, built between 1540 and 1545 for Henry VIII of England to guard the entrance to the River Fal on its west bank, near Falmouth, Cornwall....
  
• Penhallam
  Penhallam
  
  Penhallam is the site of a medieval manor house surrounded by a protective moat.The site is situated in the parish of Jacobstow in north-east Cornwall, United Kingdom, at , one mile west of Week St Mary and seven miles south of Bude....
  
• Penjerrick Garden
  Penjerrick Garden
  
  Penjerrick Garden, often referred to as "Cornwall's true jungle garden", lies between Budock Water and Mawnan Smith, near Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom....
  
• Penlee House
  Penlee House, Penzance, Cornwall
  
  File:Penlee House 2.jpgPenlee House is a museum and art gallery located in the town of Penzance, Cornwall in Cornwall, and is home to a great many paintings by members of the Newlyn School of Painting, including many by such luminaries as Stanhope Forbes, Norman Garstin,Walter Langley and Lamorna Birch....
  
• Penwith
  Penwith
  
  Penwith is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council is based in Penzance. The district covers all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which includes an area of land to the east that falls outside the peninsula, being the most westerly distric...
  
• Penwith Peninsula
• Poldhu
  Poldhu
  
  Poldhu is a small area in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, situated on the The Lizard it comprises Poldhu Point and Poldhu Cove. It lies on the coast west of Goonhilly Downs, with Mullion, Cornwall 2 km to the south and Porthleven 7 km to the north....
   
  
  *Polperro
  Polperro
  
  Polperro is a village and fishing port on the south-east Cornwall coast in south west England, UK. Situated on the River Pol, four miles west of the major resort of Looe and 25 miles west of the major city and port of Plymouth, it has a picturesque fishing harbour lined with tightly packed houses which make it a popular tourist location in th...
  
• Porthcurno Museum of Submarine Telegraphy
• Restormel Castle
  Restormel Castle
  
  Restormel Castle is situated on the River Fowey near Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.It was built in 1100 in the typical motte and bailey style and is a perfect example of military architecture of its period, and one of the finest in England....
  
• River Fowey
  River Fowey
  
  The River Fowey is a river in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.It source about 1 mile north-west of Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor, passes Lanhydrock House, Restormel Castle and Lostwithiel, then broadens at Milltown, Cornwall before joining the English Channel at Fowey....
  
• River Looe
  River Looe
  
  The River Looe is a river in south-east Cornwall, which flows into the English Channel at Looe. It has two main branches, the East Looe River and the West Looe River....
  
• River Tamar
  River Tamar
  
  The Tamar is a river in south western England, that forms most of the border between Devon and Cornwall . At its mouth, the Tamar flows into the Hamoaze where it joins with the River Lynher before entering Plymouth Sound....
  
• Roseland Peninsula
• Royal Cornwall Museum
  Royal Cornwall Museum
  
  The Royal Cornwall Museum in the city of Truro, England, United Kingdom is the oldest museum in Cornwall and the leading museum of Cornish culture....
  
• Sancreed
  Sancreed
  
  Sancreed is a village and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, UK. The parish encompasses the settlements of Bejouans, Bosvennen, Botreah, Drift, Cornwall, Sancreed, Trenuggo, and Tregonnebris and is bounded by the parishes of St Just in Penwith to the west, Madron to the north-east and St Buryan and Paul, Cornwall in the sou...
  
• Seaton Valley Countryside Park
  Seaton Valley Countryside Park
  
  Seaton Valley Countryside Park is the newest of Cornwall four Country Parks. It is situated in the Seaton valley between the villages of Seaton, Cornwall and Hessenford....
  
• Sennen
  Sennen
  
  Sennen is a village and civil parish, in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the settlements of Trevescan, Carn Towan and Sennen as well as Land's End and is bounded by the parishes of St Just in Penwith to the north, St Buryan to the east,St Levan to the south and by the sea in the west....
  
• South West Coast Path
  South West Coast Path
  
  The South West Coast Path is Britain's longest waymarked Long-distance footpaths in the UK and a National Trails . It stretches for , running from Minehead in Somerset, along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, to Poole Harbour in Dorset....
  
• St Breock Downs Monolith
  St Breock Downs Monolith
  
  St Breock Downs Monolith is a 16ft high prehistoric standing stone located near Wadebridge, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.In 1999 there was some controversy regarding this site and others under the care of the English Heritage organisation....
  
• St Catherine's Castle
  St Catherine's Castle
  
  File:St Catherine's Castle-by-Chris-Downer.jpgSt Catherine's Castle is a small fort commissioned by Henry VIII of England. It is a two-storey building built to protect Fowey Harbour in Cornwall, United Kingdom....
  
• St Mawes Castle
  St Mawes Castle
  
  St Mawes Castle and its larger sister castle, Pendennis Castle, were built as part of a defensive chain of fortresses to protect the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom....
  
• St Michael's Mount
  St Michael's Mount
  
  St Michael's Mount is a tidal island located off the Mount's Bay coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is united with Marazion by a man-made causeway, passable only at mid to low tide, made of granite setts....
   
  
  *Tate St Ives
  Tate St Ives
  
  Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, Cornwall, UK, exhibiting work by modern United Kingdom artists, including work of the St Ives School....
  
• Tehidy Country Park
  Tehidy Country Park
  
  Tehidy Country Park is located near Camborne, Redruth and Portreath. It was once part of a created estate that was owned by the wealthy Basset Tin mining family....
  
• The Towans
  The Towans
  
  The Towans is a stretch of coastal dune land near the town of Hayle in Cornwall, UK. It comprises Mexico Towans, Upton Towans, and Gwithian Towans....
  
• Tintagel Castle
  Tintagel Castle
  
  Tintagel Castle is a castle currently in ruins found on Tintagel, located near the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The site was perhaps originally a Ancient Rome settlement, though the remains of the castle that stand today date from the 13th century....
  
• Trebah
  Trebah
  
  Trebah is a sub-tropical garden situated in Cornwall near Glendurgan Garden and above the Helford River ....
  
• Tregiffian Burial Chamber
  Tregiffian Burial Chamber
  
  Tregiffian Burial Chamber is a Neolithic or early Bronze age chambered tomb. An entrance passage, lined with stone slabs, leads into a central chamber....
  
• Tregothnan
  Tregothnan
  
  The Tregothnan Estate is located beside the village of St Michael Penkivel south-east of Truro in Cornwall, United Kingdom.The house and estate is the traditional home of the Edward Boscawen family, and the seat of Viscount Falmouth....
  
• Trelissick Garden
  Trelissick Garden
  
  Trelissick Garden is a garden in the ownership of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and situated in Feock, Cornwall, near Truro, Cornwall, Cornwall, United Kingdom....
   
  
  *Trengwainton Garden
  Trengwainton Garden
  
  Trengwainton is a garden in the ownership of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and situated in Madron, near Penzance, Cornwall, UK....
  
• Trerice
  Trerice
  
  Trerice is an Tudor Style architecture manor house, located in Kestle Mill near Newquay, Cornwall, UK . The building features a a main south-east facing range of 'E'-plan abutting a south-west range containing two earlier phases....
  
• Trethevy Quoit
  Trethevy Quoit
  
  Trethevy Quoit is a well preserved megalithic tomb known locally as "the giant's house" .Standing 9ft high, it consists of five standing stones capped by a large slab and is located near St Cleer, Cornwall, United Kingdom....
  
• Truro Cathedral
  Truro Cathedral
  
  The Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Truro is an Anglican cathedral located in the city of Truro, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It was built in the Gothic Revival architectural style fashionable during the period, and is one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom with Three-spired cathedrals in the United Kingdom....
  

Police and the military

• Cornwall Police Force
  Devon and Cornwall Constabulary
  
  Devon and Cornwall Constabulary is the Home Office police force responsible for policing the counties of England of Devon and Cornwall in England and the unitary authorities of Plymouth, Torbay and the Isles of Scilly....
  
• Falmouth Docks Police
  Falmouth Docks Police
  
  Falmouth Docks Police is a small, specialised non-Home Office police force responsible for policing Falmouth Docks.Officers of this force are sworn in as special constables under section 79 of the Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act 1847....
  

  Category:Military of the United Kingdom in Cornwall

• RNAS Culdrose
  RNAS Culdrose
  
  Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose , based in Cornwall, near Helston, on the Lizard Peninsula, has three major roles: serving the Fleet Air Arm's front line Westland Sea King and AgustaWestland EH101 helicopter squadrons; providing search and rescue for the South West region; and training specialists for the Royal Navy....
  
• HMS Fisgard
  HMS Fisgard
  
  Three ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fisgard or HMS Fishguard after the coastal town of Fishguard in Pembrokeshire, Wales, the scene of the defeat of the Last invasion of Britain, by a French force in 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars....
  
• HMS Raleigh
  HMS Raleigh (shore establishment)
  
  HMS Raleigh is the modern-day basic training facility of the Royal Navy at Torpoint, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is spread over several square miles, and has damage control simulators and fire-fighting training facilities....
  
• HMS St Austell Bay (K634)
  HMS St Austell Bay (K634)
  
  HMS St Austell Bay was a Bay class frigate anti-aircraft warfare frigate of the United Kingdom Royal Navy. She is named for St Austell Bay in Cornwall. She was originally laid down as the Loch class frigate vessel Loch Lyddoch....
  
• Cornwall Air Ambulance
  Cornwall Air Ambulance
  
  The Cornwall Air Ambulance is a dedicated helicopter emergency medical service for Cornwall. The helicopter carries out approximately 1000 missions a year....
  
• GCHQ Bude
  GCHQ CSO Morwenstow
  
  GCHQ Bude, formerly called the GCHQ Composite Signals Organisation Station Morwenstow is a satellite ground station located on the north Cornwall coast between the small villages of Morwenstow and Coombe, Bude, United Kingdom operated by the British signals intelligence service on the site of the former World War II airfield, RAF Cleav...
  
• RNAS Predannack
  Predannack Airfield
  
  Predannack Airfield is situated near Mullion, Cornwall on Cornwall's The Lizard Peninsula. The runways are operated by the Royal Navy and today it is used as a satellite airfield and relief landing ground for nearby RNAS Culdrose....
  
• RRH Portreath
  RRH Portreath
  
  RRH Portreath is a Remote Radar Head operated by the Royal Air Force. It is situated at Nancekuke Common on the clifftops to the north of Portreath beach and southwest of Porthtowan in Cornwall....
  
• RAF Davidstow Moor
  RAF Davidstow Moor
  
  RAF Davidstow Moor was an airbase at Davidstow near Camelford in Cornwall, United Kingdom from late 1942 until 1945. Despite a few periods of intense activity it was one of RAF Coastal Command less-used airfields....
  
• RAF St Eval
  RAF St Eval
  
  RAF St Eval was a strategic airbase for the RAF Coastal Command in the Second World War . St Eval's primary role was to provided vital anti-submarine and anti-shipping patrols off the South West coast of England....
  
• RAF St. Mawgan
  RAF St. Mawgan
  
  RAF St Mawgan is a Royal Air Force station near Newquay in Cornwall. In 2008 the runway part of the site was handed over to Newquay airport. The remainder of the station still continues to operate under the command of the RAF....
  
• Vice-Admiral of Cornwall
  Vice-Admiral of Cornwall
  
  This is a list of people who have served as Vice-Admiral of the Coast of Cornwall. This vice-admiralty jurisdiction was divided into North and South Cornwall between 1601 and 1715, with a separate vice-admiral for each; in addition, two members of the Godolphin family were vice-admiral for the Isles of Scilly between 1570 and 1638....
  

Politics

• Mebyon Kernow
  Mebyon Kernow
  
  Mebyon Kernow is a minor political party in the United Kingdom. The main objective of MK is to establish greater autonomy in Cornwall, through the establishment of a legislative Cornish Assembly....
  
• Constitutional status of Cornwall
  Constitutional status of Cornwall
  
  The constitutional status of Cornwall, in the southwest of the United Kingdom, is the subject of ongoing debate.The Parliament of the United Kingdom and Government of the United Kingdom, as well as local authorities and official agencies and some people in Cornwall, consider Cornwall to be an administrative and ceremonial counties of Engl...
  
• Cornish Assembly
  Cornish Assembly
  
  The Cornish Assembly is a proposed devolution regional assembly for Cornwall in the United Kingdom along the lines of the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly....
  
• Celtic League (political organisation)
  Celtic League (political organisation)
  
  The Celtic League is a political and cultural organisation in the modern Celtic nations of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man....
  
• Cornish self-government movement
  Cornish self-government movement
  
  The Cornish self-government movement is a social movement which seeks greater autonomy for the area of Cornwall. The movement's advocates argue that Cornwall is not merely a county of England but a duchy and a distinctive nation which has never been formally incorporated into England via an Act of Union....
  
• Cornish Nationalist Party
  Cornish Nationalist Party
  
  Disambiguation: the term "Cornish Nationalist Party" is sometimes used incorrectly for Mebyon Kernow"The 'Cornish Nationalist Party' , or Party Kenethlegek Kernow, was a political party led by Dr James Whetter campaigning for self-government for Cornwall that was formed by people who left Mebyon Kernow on 28 May 1975 ....
  
• Cornish people
  Cornish people
  
  The Cornish people are regarded as an ethnic group of the United Kingdom originating in Cornwall. They are often described as a Modern Celts....
  
• Cornish Stannary Parliament
  Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament
  
  The Cornish Stannary Parliament is a pressure group which claims to be a revived Stannary Courts and Parliaments. It was established in 1974 and has campaigned since then against the government of the United Kingdom's position on the constitutional status of Cornwall....
  
• Cornish Solidarity
  Cornish Solidarity
  
  Cornish Solidarity is a cross party organisation that is fighting for 'Cornish Rights' including the recognition of the ethnic Cornish as a national minority and for more Cornish autonomy in the form of a Cornish Assembly....
  
• Cornwall 2000
  Cornwall 2000
  
  Cornwall 2000 is a Cornish people civil liberty/human rights group based in Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The group was formed by John Angarrack, a leading Cornish historian and Cornish human rights campaigner....
  
• List of not fully sovereign nations
• Cornish rotten boroughs
  Cornish rotten boroughs
  
  There were 21 boroughs in Cornwall prior to 1821, most of which were rotten boroughs. Due to their size and population "rotten borough" were "controlled" and used by a patron to exercise undue and unrepresentative influence within parliament....
  
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall
  List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall
  
  The ceremonial county of Cornwall, which includes theIsles of Scilly, is divided into 5United Kingdom constituencies.They are all County constituency....
  
• Census 2001 Ethnic Codes
  Census 2001 Ethnic Codes
  
  UK Ethnic Group codingONS United Kingdom Census 2001 - Ethnic categories. As of the 2001 census, the current detailed framework of ethnic coding is given below....
  
• Demographics of England from the 2001 United Kingdom census
  Demographics of England from the 2001 United Kingdom census
  
  This article discusses the demography of England. Due to the lack of authoritative contemporary sources, estimates of the population of England for dates prior to the first census in 1801 vary considerably....
  
• Politics of England
  Politics of England
  
  The Politics of England form part of the wider politics of the United Kingdom, with England one of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom....
  
• Cornwall County Council
  Cornwall County Council
  
  File:New County Hall.jpgCornwall County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom....
  
• Devolved English parliament
  Devolved English parliament
  
  A devolved English Parliament, giving separate decision-making powers to representatives for voters in England similar to the representation given by the National Assembly for Wales, Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly, is currently an issue in the politics of the United Kingdom....
  
• Cornish conspiracy theory
• Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
  Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
  
  In February 1995, 22 member States of the Council of Europe, signed the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities .The Council of Europe first discussed according specific protection for national minorites in 1949, but it was not until 1990 that the Council of Europe made a firm commitment to protect these minority gro...
  
• Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom
• Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  
  The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly during its 62nd session at UN Headquarters in New York City on 13 September 2007....
  
• Foreign-born population of Great Britain, 2001
  Foreign-born population of Great Britain, 2001
  
  According to the 2001 UK Census, 8.3 per cent of the country's population were foreign-born as of April 2001.The table below lists the places of birth of UK residents according to the 2001 Census....
  
• South West Regional Assembly
  South West Regional Assembly
  
  The South West Regional Assembly is the regional Assemblies in England for the South West England of England, established in 1999. It is based in Taunton....
  
• English nationalism
  English nationalism
  
  English nationalism refers to a nationalism outlook or political stance applied to England. In a general sense, it promotes England, as a focus for patriotic sentiment and national identity....
   in Cornwall
• High Sheriff of Cornwall
  High Sheriff of Cornwall
  
  High Sheriffs of Cornwall: a chronological list:Note: the Duchy of Cornwall - has the right to choose High Sheriffs each year, rather than the Privy Council, chaired by the Sovereign which chooses the Sheriffs of all other English counties, other than the those in the Duchy of Lancaster....
  
• Andrew George MP for St. Ives
• Julia Goldsworthy
  Julia Goldsworthy
  
  Julia Anne Goldsworthy is a United Kingdom politician. She is the Liberal Democrats Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne and shadows the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the British House of Commons....
   MP for Falmouth & Camborne
• Matthew Taylor
  Matthew Taylor (politician)
  
  Matthew Owen John Taylor is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Liberal Democrats Member of Parliament for Truro and St Austell in Cornwall....
   MP for Truro and St Austell
• Dan Rogerson
  Dan Rogerson
  
  Daniel John Rogerson is the Liberal Democrats Member of Parliament for North Cornwall , first elected at the UK general election, 2005....
   MP for Cornwall North
• Colin Breed
  Colin Breed
  
  Colin Edward Breed is a United Kingdom politician. He is the Liberal Democrats Member of Parliament for Cornwall South East .Early life...
   MP for South East Cornwall
• Mark Prisk
  Mark Prisk
  
  Michael Mark Prisk is a politician in the United Kingdom. IN July 2007, Prisk was elected the Official_Opposition_Shadow_Cabinet_ for Cornwall, despite there not currently being a Minister for Cornwall in the Labour government....
   Shadow Minister for Cornwall
• Local government districts in Cornwall