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Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, United Kingdom

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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Architecture

• Royal Albert Bridge
  Royal Albert Bridge
  The Royal Albert Bridge is a railway bridge that spans the River Tamar in the United Kingdom between Plymouth, on the Devon bank, and Saltash on the Cornish bank. Its unique design consists of two lenticular iron trusses above the water, with conventional plate-girder approach spans. This gives...
  
  
• Tamar Bridge
  Tamar Bridge
  The Tamar Bridge is a major road bridge at Saltash in southwest 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 large number of Cornwall Railway viaducts were necessitated by the topography of Cornwall, United Kingdom, where hills and areas of high ground are separated by deep river valleys that generally run north or south...
  
  
• Tate St Ives
  Tate St Ives
  Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists, including work of the St Ives School. The three storey building, designed by architects Evans and Shalev, lies on the site of an old gas works, overlooking Porthmeor Beach. It was opened in...
  
  
• Eden Project
  Eden Project
  The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse. Inside the artificial biomes are plants that are collected from all around the world....
  
  
• Jamaica Inn
  Jamaica Inn
  The Jamaica Inn, originally a public house and now an inn, is a Grade II listed building in the civil parish of Altarnun, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Located near the middle of Bodmin Moor near the hamlet of Bolventor, it was built as a coaching house in 1750 as a staging post for changing horses...
  
  
• 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 much of the nineteenth century, and is one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom...
  
  

• Bodmin Parish Church
  Bodmin Parish Church
  Bodmin Parish Church is an Anglican church in Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom.The existing church building is dated 1469-72 and was until the building of Truro Cathedral the largest church in Cornwall...
  
  
• St German's Priory
  St German's Priory
  St German's Priory is a large Norman church in the village of St Germans in south-east Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.-History:According to a credible tradition the church here was founded by St Germanus himself ca. 430 AD. The first written record however is of Conan being made Bishop in the...
  
  
• Launceston Castle
  Launceston Castle
  Launceston Castle is located in the town of Launceston, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. .-Early history:The castle is a Norman 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...
  
  
• Restormel Castle
  Restormel Castle
  Restormel Castle is situated on the River Fowey near Lostwithiel, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall, the others being Launceston, Tintagel and Trematon. The castle is notable for its perfectly circular design...
  
  
• Trematon Castle
  Trematon Castle
  Trematon Castle is situated near Saltash in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is similar in style to the later Restormel Castle, with a 12th century keep. Trematon Castle overlooks Plymouth Sound and was built probably by Robert, Count of Mortain on the ruins of an earlier Roman fort: it is a...
  
  
• Tintagel Castle
  Tintagel Castle
  Tintagel Castle is a medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island, adjacent to the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The site was possibly occupied in the Romano-British period, due to an array of artefacts dating to this period which have been found on the...
  
  
• Lanhydrock House
  Lanhydrock House
  Lanhydrock is a civil parish centred on a country estate and mansion in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish lies south of the town of Bodmin and is bounded to the north by Bodmin parish, to the south by Lanlivery parish and to the west by Lanivet parish. The population was 171 in the 2001 census...
  
  
• 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 world's smallest island with a building on it....
  
  
• Eddystone Lighthouse
  Eddystone Lighthouse
  Eddystone Lighthouse is on the treacherous Eddystone Rocks, south west of Rame Head, United Kingdom. While Rame Head is in Cornwall, the rocks are in Devon and composed of Precambrian Gneiss....
  
  
• Godrevy
  Godrevy
  Godrevy is an area of west Cornwall, United Kingdom, found on the north coast within St. Ives Bay and is popular with both the surfing community and walkers. It is home also to some areas administered by the National Trust, and a lighthouse maintained by Trinity House.- Godrevy Head :The headland ...
  
  
• Lizard Lighthouse
  Lizard Lighthouse
  The Lizard Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Lizard Point in Cornwall, United Kingdom, built in 1752. A light was first exhibited from that point in 1619, but demolished in 1630. Trinity House took responsibility for the station in 1771...
  
  
• Longships
  Longships
  Longships is the name given to a group of rocky islets situated approximately 1 miles west of Land's End, Cornwall, United Kingdom....
  
  

• Pendeen Lighthouse
  Pendeen Lighthouse
  Pendeen Lighthouse is located to the north of Pendeen in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. Designed by the Trinity House Engineer Sir Thomas Matthews, the 17 m tower, buildings and surrounding wall was constructed by Arthur Carkeek of Redruth. The five-wick Argand lamp provided by Messrs...
  
  
• St. Anthony's Lighthouse
  St. Anthony's Lighthouse
  St Anthony's Lighthouse is a lighthouse on St Anthony Head on the eastern coast of the entrance to the harbour of Falmouth, Cornwall.The lighthouse was built in 1835 by Olver of Falmouth. The light originally came from eight Argand oil lamps. The light source was changed to pressure vapour and...
  
  
• 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 coaster 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 a lighthouse on Trevose Head on the north Cornish coast at near Padstow. The tower is 27 metres tall, and has a range of , but, on a clear night, you can just spot the light from Pendeen Lighthouse, over away.-External links:*...
  
  
• Wolf Rock, Cornwall
  Wolf Rock, Cornwall
  Wolf Rock is a treacherous rock located east of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly and southwest of Land's End, in Cornwall, United Kingdom. A lighthouse, known as the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, was built on the rock by James Walker from 1861 to 1869; it entered service in January 1870.The lighthouse is in...
  
  

Culture

• Cornish people
  Cornish people
  The Cornish are a people associated with Cornwall, a county and Duchy in the south-west of the United Kingdom that is seen in some respects as distinct from England, having more in common with the other Celtic parts of the United Kingdom such as Wales, as well as with other Celtic nations in Europe...
  
  
• Modern Celts
  Modern Celts
  A Celtic identity emerged in the "Celtic" nations of Western Europe, following the identification of the native peoples of the Atlantic fringe as "Celts" by Edward Lhuyd in the 18th century and during the course of the 19th-century Celtic Revival, taking the form of ethnic nationalism particularly...
  
  
• Celtic Congress
  Celtic Congress
  The International Celtic Congress is a cultural organisation that seeks to promote the Celtic languages of the nations of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man. It was formed out of previously existing bodies that had sought to advance the same goals such as the Celtic...
  
  
• Pan-Celticism
  Pan-Celticism
  Pan-Celticism is the name given to various political and cultural movements and organisations that promote greater contact between the Celtic nations.-Types of Pan-Celticism:Pan-Celticism can operate on one or all of the following levels listed below:...
  
  
• The Cornish Gorseth (Gorseth Kernow)
  Gorseth Kernow
  Gorseth Kernow is a non-political Cornish organisation, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall in the United Kingdom.-History:...
  
  
• Bards of the Cornish Gorseth
• Cornish diaspora
• Anglo-Celtic
  Anglo-Celtic
  Anglo-Celtic is a term used to describe people of British and Irish descent. The term today is mainly used outside of Britain and Ireland, particularly in Australia but also in Canada, New Zealand and the United States, where a significant diaspora is located....
  
  
• Christianity in Cornwall
  Christianity in Cornwall
  Christianity in Cornwall began in the 4th or 5th century AD when Western Christianity was introduced into Cornwall along with the rest of Roman Britain. Over time it became the official religion, superseding previous Celtic and Roman practice. Early Christianity in Cornwall was spread largely by...
  
  
• Cornish saints
• The Cornish National Anthem
  The Song of the Western Men
  "The Song of the Western Men" was written by Robert Stephen Hawker. It is also known by the title of "Trelawny".Hawker wrote the song in 1824, telling of events that took place in 1688. When the song first appeared many thought it to be a contemporary record of events, although in fact the song...
  
  
• List of Cornish saints
• Kiddlywink
  Kiddlywink
  Kiddlywink is an old name for a Cornish beer shop or beer house, which became popular after the 1830 beer act. They were licensed to sell beer or cider by the Customs & Excise rather than by a Magistrate's Licence which was required by traditional Taverns and Inns...
  
  
• Cornish tartans
  Cornish tartans
  Cornish kilts and tartans are thought to be a modern tradition started in the early to mid 20th century. The first modern kilt was plain black, and other patterns followed. It is documented that a garment known as a bracca was worn by Celtic races that inhabited the British Isles, the term...
  
  
• Cornish dance
  Cornish dance
  Cornish dance originates from Cornwall in the British Isles. It has largely been shaped by the Cornish 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...
  
  
• Royal Cornwall Show
• Kneehigh Theatre
  Kneehigh Theatre
  Kneehigh Theatre is an international theatre company based in Cornwall, England.Kneehigh was started in 1980 by Mike Shepherd. Early productions were performed in village halls, marquees, cliff-tops and quarries...
  
  
• Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
  Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
  The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies was formed in 1924, on the initiative of Robert Morton Nance, 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 its Celtic language...
  
  
• 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. The Institution was one of the earliest of seven similar societies established in England and Wales. The RIC moved to its present site in River Street...
  
  
• Royal Cornwall Museum
  Royal Cornwall Museum
  The Royal Cornwall Museum is a museum in the city of Truro, Cornwall, England. It is the oldest museum in Cornwall and the leading museum of Cornish culture. Its exhibits include minerals, an unwrapped mummy and objects relating to Cornwall’s unique culture...
  
  
• Cornwall Record Office
  Cornwall Record Office
  Cornwall Record Office , part of Cornwall Council, is situated at Old County Hall in Truro and is the main repository for the historical archives of Cornwall....
  
  
• Cornish surnames
  Cornish surnames
  Cornish surnames are surnames used by Cornish people and often derived from the Cornish language. Such surnames for the common people emerged in the Middle Ages, although the nobility probably had surnames much earlier on. Not until the later Middle Ages did it become necessary for a common man to...
  
  

Folklore

• Helston Furry Dance
  Furry Dance
  The Furry Dance, also known as The Flora , takes place in Helston, Cornwall, and is one of the oldest British customs still practised today...
  
  
• West Cornwall May Day celebrations
  West Cornwall May Day Celebrations
  The West Cornwall May Day celebrations are an example of folk practices found in the western part of Cornwall, United Kingdom, associated with the coming of spring. The celebration of May Day is a common motif throughout Europe and beyond. In Cornwall there are a number of notable examples of this...
  
  
• 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 Cornish-themed biennial festival held in the Copper Coast towns ofKadina, Moonta and Wallaroo on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia....
  
  
• Beast of Bodmin
  Beast of Bodmin
  The Beast of Bodmin, also known as The Beast of Bodmin Moor like The Beast of Exmoor, is a phantom wild cat purported to live in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Tom Bawcock's Eve
• Allantide
  Allantide
  Allantide is a Cornish 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...
  
  
• Chewidden Thursday
  Chewidden Thursday
  Chewidden Thursday was a festival celebrated by the tin miners of West Cornwall on the last clear Thursday before Christmas...
  
  
• 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 whom miners in the East of Cornwall celebrated as the founder of their industry instead of St Piran.Robert Hunt...
  
  
• Guise dancing
  Guise Dancing
  Guise dancing is a folk practice celebrated between Christmas Day and Twelfth Night in Cornwall, UK...
  
  
• Nickanan Night
  Nickanan Night
  Nickanan Night is a Cornish 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
• Pixie (folklore)
• Knocker (folklore)
• Owlman
  Owlman
  The Owlman, sometimes referred to as the Cornish Owlman, or The Owlman of Mawnan, is a purported cryptid that was supposedly sighted around mid 1976 in the village of Mawnan, Cornwall...
  
  
• Cornish folklore
  Cornish folklore
  Cornish folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in Cornwall. There is much traditional folklore in Cornwall, often tales of giants, mermaids, Bucca, piskies or the 'pobel vean' These are still surprisingly popular today, with many events hosting a 'droll teller' to tell the stories:...
  
  

Literature, television and film

• Literature in Cornish
  Literature in Cornish
  Cornish literature refers to written works in the Cornish language. The earliest surviving texts are in verse and date from the 14th century. There are virtually none from the 18th and 19th centuries but writing in revived forms of Cornish began in the early 20th century.-Medieval verse and...
  
  
• Cornish writers
• List of Cornish writers
• Media in Cornwall
  Media in Cornwall
  The media in Cornwall has a long and distinct history. The county has a wide range of different types and quality of media.-Timeline:-Background:Porthcurno in 1870 - Britain became wired to the world...
  
  
• Frenchman's Creek
• Jamaica Inn (film)
  Jamaica Inn (film)
  Jamaica Inn is a 1939 film made by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name, 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 English 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 Daphne du Maurier. When Rebecca was published in 1938, du Maurier became – to her great surprise – one of the most popular authors of the day. Rebecca is considered to be one of her best works...
  
  
• Rebecca (1940 film)

• Proper Job, Charlie Curnow
  Camborne
  Camborne is a town and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is at the western edge of a conurbation comprising Camborne, Pool and Redruth....
  
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• 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. It was the first in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders....
  
  
• Straw Dogs
• The Poldark Novels
  The Poldark Novels
  The Poldark Novels are a historical fictional sequence by Winston Graham.The main character, Ross Poldark, a British Army officer, returns to his home in Cornwall from the American Revolutionary War only to find that his fiancée, Elizabeth Chynoweth, having believed him dead, is about to marry his...
  
  
• Wycliffe (TV series)
  Wycliffe (TV series)
  Wycliffe is a British 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, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was filmed in Cornwall, with a...
  
  
• Wild West (sitcom)
• Doc Martin
  Doc Martin
  Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Mark Crowdy, Craig Ferguson and Dominic Minghella. The show is filmed on location in the fishing village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, United Kingdom, with filming of most interior scenes...
  
  
• 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. The title refers to a fragrant camomile lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs in the garden of the main characters' aunt's...
  
  

Music and musicians

• Cornish music
  Music of Cornwall
  Cornwall has been historically Celtic, though Celtic-derived musical traditions had been moribund for some time before being revived during a late 20th century roots revival.-History:...
  
  
• 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 people of Western Europe...
  
  
• Cornish bagpipes
  Cornish bagpipes
  Cornish bagpipes are the forms of bagpipe once common in Cornwall. Bagpipes and pipes are mentioned in Cornish documentary sources from c.1150 to 1830 and bagpipes are present in Cornish iconography from the 15th and 16th centuries....
  
  
• 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. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences...
  
  
• 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 Scout and Guide campfires, primarily in Britain, Ireland and some Commonwealth nations....
  
  
• Luke Vibert
  Luke Vibert
  Luke Vibert is a British recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronic music. Vibert 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 Cornish poetess and folk singer and was seen as an ambassador for Cornish tradition and culture in all the Celtic nations and as far away as Australia and Canada....
  
  

• 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 recorded by Meat Loaf and John Parr in 1986...
  
  
• Camel Rock
  Camel Rock
  Camel Rock may refer to:*Camel Rock in the Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona*Camel Rocks , a rock formation on the Königstein hill in Germany* Camel Rock , a music festival...
  
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• Thirteen Senses
  Thirteen Senses
  Thirteen Senses are a post-britpop band from Penzance, Cornwall. 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 UK Top 40...
  
  
• The Onyx
  The Onyx
  The Onyx was formed in Wadebridge, Cornwall in 1965. Out of the ashes of Rick & The Hayseeds the band came to be known as The Onyx Set, named after an Onyx ring owned by original band member Mike Black-Borow. After various changes in the line-up they shortened their name to The Onyx and the classic...
  
  
• Kubb (band)
  Kubb (band)
  Kubb are a British indie rock band from London, who had two UK top 40 hits in 2005/6 and a top 30 album. Original member Ben Langmaid went on to become half of the duo La Roux.- Biography :...
  
  
• Aphex Twin
  Aphex Twin
  Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...
  
  
• Tintagel (Bax)
  Tintagel (Bax)
  Tintagel is a symphonic poem composed by Arnold Bax in 1919; it is perhaps his best-known orchestral work.Bax had visited Tintagel Castle during the summer of 1917, accompanied by pianist Harriet Cohen, with whom he was carrying on an affair at the time; he dedicated the work to her...
  
  
• Dudley Savage
  Dudley Savage
  William Dudley Savage MBE was a British organist and broadcaster who for many years broadcast a hospital request programme from the Royal cinema in Plymouth. He both introduced and played requests on the Royal organ...
  
  

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. The villages suffered extensive damage after flash floods caused by an exceptional amount of rain that fell over eight hours that afternoon...
  
  
• Penlee lifeboat disaster
  Penlee lifeboat disaster
  The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the coast of Cornwall, in England, UK. The Penlee Lifeboat went to the aid of the coaster Union Star after its engines failed in heavy seas...
  
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• 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 to the St Mary's, Isles of Scilly in thick fog. Only six of the 26 on board survived...
  
  
• 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 England, 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
• Fishing in Cornwall
  Fishing in Cornwall
  Fishing in Cornwall has traditionally been one of the main elements of the economy. Pilchard fishing and processing was a thriving industry in Cornwall from around 1750 to around 1880, after which it went into an almost terminal decline. During the 20th century the varieties of fish taken became...
  
  
• South West Regional Assembly
  South West Regional Assembly
  The South West Regional Assembly was the regional assembly for the South West region of England, established in 1999.It was wound up in December 2008, and its functions taken on by the Strategic Leaders' Board, the executive arm of the newly established South West Councils. Cllr. Angus Campbell,...
  
  
• South West of England Regional Development Agency
• Regional development agency
  Regional Development Agency
  In the United Kingdom, 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. There is one RDA for each of the NUTS level 1 regions of England...
  
  
• Regional Assemblies in England
  Regional Assemblies in England
  The Regional Assemblies of England were a group of indirectly elected regional bodies established originally under the name Regional Chambers by the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998. They were abolished on 31 March 2010 and replaced by Local Authority Leaders’ Boards...
  
  

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 counties 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 GDP per head...
  
  
• Cornwall College
  Cornwall College
  Cornwall College is a further education college situated on various sites throughout Cornwall with its main centre in St Austell. The college is a member of the 157 Group of high performing schools...
  
  
• Camborne School of Mines
  Camborne School of Mines
  The Camborne School of Mines , commonly abbreviated to CSM, was founded in 1888. It is now 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...
  
  
• Institute of Cornish Studies
  Institute of Cornish Studies
  The Institute of Cornish Studies is a research institute in west Cornwall: it 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...
  
  
• Glasney College
  Glasney College
  Glasney College was founded in 1265 at Penryn, Cornwall, by Bishop Bronescombe and was a centre of ecclesiastical power in medieval Cornwall and probably the best known and most important of Cornwall's religious institutions.-History:...
  
  
• Tremough
  Tremough
  Tremough Campus is a university campus situated in Penryn, Cornwall. It is the only such university project in Cornwall currently. The name Tremough derives from the Cornish 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. It is set in of countryside, but close to the towns of...
  
  
• University College Falmouth
  University College Falmouth
  University College Falmouth is a British 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 taught degree-awarding powers in March 2005...
  
  

Schools

• Bishop Cornish C of E VA Primary School
  Bishop Cornish C of E VA Primary School
  Bishop Cornish C of E VA Primary School is a registered Church of England primary school with seven year groups taking in children aged 4-11. The majority of intake choose to progress to the nearby saltash.net secondary school, although some still choose to move onto different institutes.The school...
  
  
• Bodmin College
  Bodmin College
  Bodmin College is a secondary comprehensive school that serves the community of Bodmin, Cornwall. The head teacher is Mr Robert Mitchell.- Curriculum :...
  
  
• Cape Cornwall Secondary School‎
• Camborne Grammar School
  Camborne Grammar School
  Camborne Grammar School in Camborne, Cornwall, was a girls' grammar school between 1908 and 1976.-Origins:In 1877 Redbrooke College for young ladies was founded at Redbrooke House on Camborne Hill. There were about 20 boarders and also day girls. There were three teachers at first and later a Miss...
  
  
• Camborne Science and Community College
  Camborne Science and Community College
  Camborne Science & International Academy, formally Camborne Science & Community College, is a comprehensive school and Sixth Form College in Camborne, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The school teaches 11-19 year olds...
  
  
• Cape Cornwall Secondary School
  Cape Cornwall Secondary School
  Cape Cornwall School is a comprehensive school in St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, United Kingdom, that teaches 11-16 year olds. It is the most westerly comprehensive school in mainland England and is also one of the smallest secondary schools in Penwith with just over 400 students...
  
  
• Carbeile Junior School
• Delaware Community Primary School
• Five Islands School
  Five Islands School
  The Five Islands School is the first federated school in the United Kingdom, providing primary and secondary education for children from 3-16 at five sites across the Isles of Scilly.The primary school bases are:* Carn Gwaval Primary Base, on St Mary's...
  
  
• Humphry Davy School
  Humphry Davy School
  Humphry Davy School is a comprehensive school in Penzance, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.-Admissions:The school teaches 11-16 year olds. In 2005 it gained specialist status, as a Music College...
  
  
• Lanner School
• Liskeard Grammar School
  Liskeard Grammar School
  Liskeard Grammar School in Liskeard, Cornwall dates back to 1550. In its most recent incarnation it was originally known as the County School, and was built by the Cornwall Education Committee. It opened in Old Road, Liskeard in 1908....
  
  
• Mounts Bay School
  Mounts Bay School
  Mounts Bay School is a comprehensive school in Heamoor, Penzance, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The school teaches 11-16 year old students. In has specialist status as a Sports and Community College.-The school:...
  
  
• Newquay Tretherras School
  Newquay Tretherras School
  Newquay Tretherras School is a state school in Newquay, Cornwall. It is located in the north-east part of the town beside the A3058 road at .Tretherras is a mixed comprehensive school for pupils between the ages of 11 and 18. It is a Designated Technology College and the current headteacher is Mrs...
  
  
• Penair School
  Penair School
  Penair School is a secondary school in Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom, for children aged 11–16. It is named after Penair House, a mansion built in the late 18th century by Rear-Admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds. It is currently reviewed as an outstanding school by government inspectors Ofsted. The...
  
  
• Penryn College
  Penryn College
  Penryn College is an LEA-maintained mixed secondary school and Sports College in the Cornish town of Penryn, United Kingdom. It has 934 pupils in the age range 11–16 years. The head teacher is Marie Hunter.-History:...
  
  
• Penrice Community College
  Penrice Community College
  Penrice Community College is an age 11-16 state school and specialist Language College in St Austell, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Almost 1300 pupils-History:...
  
  
• Redruth School
  Redruth School
  Redruth School A Technology College is a secondary school and sixth form college in Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, for ages 11–18. The school is developing its position as a focal point for the community, and retains strong links within the town...
  
  
• Redruth Grammar School
  Redruth Grammar School
  Redruth Grammar School in Redruth, Cornwall, was a boys school between 1907 and 1976.-History:The school was opened on 5 October 1907 by General Sir Redvers Buller. It was originally built to accommodate 150 pupils and to serve the Camborne-Redruth area, extending from Gwithian in the west to St....
  
  
• Richard Lander School
  Richard Lander School
  The Richard Lander School is a secondary school, a specialist technical college, in Truro, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It is named after Richard Lemon Lander...
  
  
• St Kew Community Primary School
• St Mabyn Church of England Primary School
• Saltash.net Community School
  Saltash.net community school
  Saltash.net community school is a specialist science and mathematics & ICT college, in Saltash, Cornwall, England, with 1350 pupils aged 11–18. The school added the ".net" to its name in September 2004 to reflect the extent to which the use of ICT and emerging web technologies were influencing...
  
  
• Sir James Smith's School
  Sir James Smith's School
  Sir James Smith's School is a small humanities college in the town of Camelford, North Cornwall, United Kingdom, providing education at secondary level. The headteacher is Jon Lawrence, who succeeded Angela Perlmutter in January 2007.-History:...
  
  
• Treviglas College
  Treviglas College
  Treviglas College is a secondary school in Newquay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a sixth form for boys and girls. The age range of the pupils is 11-18....
  
  
• Truro High School for Girls
  Truro High School for Girls
  Truro High School for Girls is a private school in Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom, for girls aged 3–18.The school was founded in 1880 by the future archbishop Edward White Benson, then Bishop of Truro.Its first headmistress was Amy Key...
  
  
• Truro School
  Truro School
  Truro School is a mixed independent school located in the city of Truro, Cornwall, UK. The current Headmaster is Paul Smith. Deputy Headteachers are Nick Fisher and Anita Firth . Phil Brewer is Assistant Head and Head of Sixth Form...
  
  

Famous people

Lists and categories

• List of notable residents of Cornwall
• Cornish people
• People in Cornish history
• Cornish saints
• Cornish writers
• List of Cornish writers
• List of Cornish scientists and inventors
• List of Cornish geologists and explorers
• List of Cornish historians
• List of Cornish artists, architects and craftspeople
• List of Cornish musicians
• List of Cornish philanthropists
• List of notable Cornish Christians
• List of people from Cornwall
• List of Cornish engineers and inventors

Noble and notable families

• 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.-Earl of Cornwall:...
  
  
• Duke of Cornwall
  Duke of Cornwall
  The Duchy of Cornwall was the first duchy created in the peerage of England.The present Duke of Cornwall is The Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, the reigning British monarch .-History:...
  
  
• 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 Sovereign's eldest son and heir....
  
  
• Great Cornish families
  Great Cornish families
  Great Cornish families: a history of the people and their houses is a book by Crispin Gill, published in 1995. The authorCrispin Gill, at the time of the book's publication lived in Plymouth and was Assistant Editor of the Western Morning News...
  
  

Individuals
See List of people from Cornwall

Food and drink

• :Category:Cornish cuisine
• Cuisine of Cornwall
• Cornish pasty
  Pasty
  A pasty , sometimes known as a pastie or British pasty in the United States, is a filled pastry case, associated in particular with Cornwall in Great Britain. It is made by placing the uncooked filling on a flat pastry circle, and folding it to wrap the filling, crimping the edge at the side or top...
  
  
• Clotted cream
  Clotted cream
  Clotted cream is a thick cream made by indirectly heating full-cream cow's milk using steam or a water bath and then leaving it in shallow pans to cool slowly. During this time, the cream content rises to the surface and forms 'clots' or 'clouts'...
  
  
• 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. A meadery would typically be in the style of a banquet hall, having wooden flooring, heavy...
  
  
• Yarg
  Yarg
  Yarg is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese made in Cornwall, United Kingdom from the milk of Friesian cows. Before being left to mature, this cheese is carefully wrapped in nettle leaves to form an edible, though mouldy, rind. The texture varies from creamy and soft immediately under the nettle coating...
  
  
• Sharp's Brewery
• Stargazy pie
  Stargazy pie
  Stargazy pie is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards, along with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust. Although there are a few variations with different fish being used, the unique feature of stargazy pie is fish heads protruding through the crust, so that they appear to be gazing...
  
  
• Swanky beer

• Cornish Gilliflower
  Cornish Gilliflower
  The Cornish Gilliflower is a cultivar of apple.The cultivar was found in a cottage garden in Truro, Cornwall and in 1813 was brought to the attention of the Royal Horticultural Society by Sir Christopher Hawkins, who was awarded a silver medal "for his exertions"...
  
  
• Saffron bun
  Saffron bun
  A saffron bun, in Swedish lussebulle or lussekatt, is a rich yeast dough bun that is flavoured with saffron and cinnamon or nutmeg and contains currants. In Sweden, no cinnamon or nutmeg is used in the bun, and raisins are used instead of currants. The buns are baked into many traditional shapes,...
  
  
• Cornish fairings
  Cornish fairings
  A Cornish fairing is a type of traditional ginger biscuit commonly found in Cornwall, United Kingdom. "Fairing" was originally a term for an edible treat sold at fairs around the country, though over time the name has become associated with ginger biscuits or gingerbread, which were given as a...
  
  
• Heavy cake
  Heavy cake
  Heavy cake or Hevva 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. The huer would shout 'Hevva!, Hevva!' to alert the...
  
  
• 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 - also known as 'Groats pudding' and are very similar to a white pudding, whereas others...
  
  
• St Austell Brewery
  St Austell Brewery
  St Austell Brewery is a brewery founded in 1851 by Walter Hicks in St Austell, Cornwall, England. The brewery's flagship beer is Tribute Ale, which accounts for around 80% of sales...
  
  
• Skinner's Brewery
• 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.-Lithologies:The Lizard comprises...
  
  
• List of Special Areas of Conservation in Cornwall
• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall
• Cornwall geography stubs
• Brown Willy effect
  Brown Willy effect
  The Brown Willy effect is a meteorological phenomenon that sometimes occurs across the south-west peninsula of Britain. It leads to heavy showers developing over the high ground of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, which then often travel a considerable distance downwind of their place of origin. It is...
  
  

Beaches

• Beaches of Penwith
• Carbis Bay
  Carbis Bay
  Carbis Bay is a village and seaside resort in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It lies one mile SE of St Ives on the west side of St Ives Bay on the Atlantic coast....
  
  
• Crackington Haven
  Crackington Haven
  Crackington Haven is a coastal village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is located in the civil parish of St Gennys at at the head of a cove on the Atlantic coast. The village is seven miles south-southwest of Bude and four miles north-northeast of Boscastle.Middle Crackington and Higher...
  
  
• Downderry
  Downderry
  Downderry is a coastal village in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated 18 miles west of Plymouth and one mile east of Seaton.Downderry has a long beach of light shingle. Dogs are allowed on the beach...
  
  
• Fistral Beach
  Fistral Beach
  Fistral Beach is in Fistral Bay on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated half-a-mile west of Newquay at ....
  
  
• Gwithian
  Gwithian
  beach2Gwithian is a coastal village in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles northeast of Hayle and four miles east of St Ives, Cornwall across St Ives Bay....
  
  
• Harlyn
  Harlyn
  Harlyn is a small village on the north coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated inland from Harlyn Bay three miles from Padstow and about one mile from St. Merryn....
  
  
• Maenporth
  Maenporth
  Maenporth is a cove and beach in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately two miles south-southwest of Falmouth on the estuary of the River Fal....
  
  
• Marazion
  Marazion
  Marazion is a civil parish and town in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the shore of Mount's Bay, two miles east of Penzance and one mile east of Long Rock.St Michael's Mount is half-a-mile offshore from Marazion...
  
  
• Mawgan Porth
  Mawgan Porth
  Mawgan Porth is a beach and small settlement in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated north of Watergate Bay approximately four miles north of Newquay, on the Atlantic Ocean coast....
  
  
• Newquay
  Newquay
  Newquay is a town, civil parish, seaside resort and fishing port in Cornwall, England. It is situated on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall approximately west of Bodmin and north of Truro....
  
  
• Perranporth
  Perranporth
  Perranporth is a small seaside resort on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is southwest of Newquay and northwest of Truro. Perranporth and its long beach face the Atlantic Ocean....
  
  
• Polzeath
  Polzeath
  Polzeath is a small seaside resort in the civil parish of St Minver in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately six miles north of Wadebridge on the Atlantic coast....
  
  

• 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 surfers 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 the county of Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom. It is approximately to the west of the market town of Penzance and about from Land's End, the most westerly point of the English mainland...
  
  
• Porthleven
  Porthleven
  Porthleven is a town, civil parish and fishing port in 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 wrecks in days...
  
  
• Porthtowan
  Porthtowan
  Porthtowan is a small village in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom, and is a popular summer tourist destination which lies within the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, a World Heritage Site. Porthtowan lies on Cornwall's north Atlantic coast about west of St Agnes, north of...
  
  
• Portreath
  Portreath
  Portreath is a civil parish, village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately three miles northwest of Redruth....
  
  
• Praa Sands
  Praa Sands
  Praa Sands is a coastal village in the Parish of Breage, 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, England, 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 coastal village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated opposite Padstow on the northeast bank of the River Camel estuary. The village is in the civil parish of St Minver Lowlands approximately four miles northwest of Wadebridge.-Geography:The main residential area is set back from...
  
  
• Sennen
  Sennen
  Sennen is a coastal civil parish and a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Sennen village is situated approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance....
  
  
• St Mawes
  St Mawes
  St Mawes is a small town opposite Falmouth, on the Roseland Peninsula on the south coast of Cornwall, England, 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...
  
  
• Widemouth Bay
  Widemouth Bay
  Widemouth Bay is a bay and beach on the Atlantic 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.-Activities:The beach is...
  
  
• 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 bounded to the east by Saint George's Channel; other limits include the Bristol Channel, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay, 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 , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...
  
  
• River Truro
  River Truro
  The River Truro is a river in 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: the River Truro flows into the River Fal, estuarial waters where wildlife is abundant, and then out into the Carrick Roads...
  
  
• River Camel
  River Camel
  The River Camel is a river in Cornwall, UK. It rises on the edge of Bodmin Moor and together with its tributaries drains a considerable part of North Cornwall. The river issues into the Celtic Sea area of the Atlantic Ocean between Stepper Point and Pentire Point having covered a distance of...
  
  
• River Fal
  River Fal
  The River Fal flows through Cornwall, United Kingdom, rising on the Goss Moor and reaching the English Channel at Falmouth. On or near the banks of the Fal are the castles of Pendennis and St Mawes as well as Trelissick Garden. The River Fal separates the Roseland peninsula from the rest of...
  
  
• 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 the village of Crantock and joins the Celtic Sea...
  
  

• Gover Stream
  Gover Stream
  The Gover Stream is an approximately 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 . The stream flows south east through the Gover Valley into the town of St Austell where it...
  
  
• Hamoaze
  Hamoaze
  The Hamoaze is an estuarine stretch of the tidal River Tamar, between the River Lynher and Plymouth Sound, England.The Hamoaze flows past Devonport Dockyard, which belongs to the Royal Navy...
  
  
• Helford River
  Helford River
  The Helford River is a ria located in Cornwall, England, UK, and not a true river. It is fed by a number of small streams into its numerous creeks...
  
  
• 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 east Cornwall, UK, passing St Germans and enters the River Tamar at the Hamoaze, which in turn flows into Plymouth Sound.-Geography:...
  
  
• St Austell River
  St Austell River
  The St Austell River properly known as the River Vinnick, but historically called The White River, is a long river located in south Cornwall, United Kingdom....
  
  
• River Tamar
  River Tamar
  The Tamar is a river in South West England, that forms most of the border between Devon and Cornwall . It is one of several British rivers whose ancient name is assumed to be derived from a prehistoric river word apparently meaning "dark flowing" and which it shares with the River Thames.The...
  
  

Flora and fauna

• 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 , amongst them Looe...
  
  
• The Guild of Cornish Hedgers
• Cornish symbols
  Cornish symbols
  Many different symbols are associated with Cornwall, a county in the United Kingdom.Saint Piran's Flag, a white cross on a black background is often seen in Cornwall. The Duchy of Cornwall shield of 15 gold bezants on a black field is also used. Because of these two symbols black, white and gold...
  
  
• Birds of Cornwall
  Birds of Cornwall
  The birds of Cornwall are in general a selection of those found in the whole of the British Isles, though Cornwall's position at the extreme south-west of Great Britain results in many occasional migrants...
  
  
• Frederick Hamilton Davey
  Frederick Hamilton Davey
  Frederick Hamilton Davey was an amateur botanist who devoted most of his leisure time to the study of the flora of Cornwall. Born at Ponsanooth in the Kennall Vale, Cornwall to a large family of limited means, he left school aged 11 to work in the Kennall Powder Mills. Encouraged by his father and...
  
  

Individual species

• Red-billed Chough
  Red-billed 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.The cultivar was found in a cottage garden in Truro, Cornwall and in 1813 was brought to the attention of the Royal Horticultural Society by Sir Christopher Hawkins, who was awarded a silver medal "for his exertions"...
  
  
• 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 unusual geology gives rise to the alkaline...
  
  
• Cornish game hen
  Cornish game hen
  In the USA, a Cornish game hen, also sometimes called a Cornish hen, poussin, Rock Cornish hen, or simply Rock Cornish, is a hybrid chicken sold whole. Despite the name, it is not a game bird, but actually a type of domestic chicken. Though the bird is called a "hen", it can be either male or female...
  
  
• Cornish Elm
  Cornish Elm
  Ulmus minor Mill. subsp. angustifolia Stace , often known as the Cornish Elm, is a species of deciduous tree...
  
  
• Large Black (pig)

Towns and settlements

• Cornish and Breton twin towns
  Cornish and Breton twin towns
  The following table lists the names of Breton communities which have concluded town twinning agreements with communities in Cornwall:-External links:*...
  
  
• List of civil parishes in Cornwall
• List of places in Cornwall
• Villages in Cornwall
• Bodmin
  Bodmin
  Bodmin is a civil parish and major town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the centre of the county southwest of Bodmin Moor.The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character...
  
  
• Bude
  Bude
  Bude is a small seaside resort town in North Cornwall, England, at the mouth of the River Neet . It lies just south of Flexbury, north of Widemouth Bay and west of Stratton and is located along the A3073 road off the A39. Bude is twinned with Ergué-Gabéric in Brittany, France...
  
  
• Callington
• Calstock
  Calstock
  Calstock is civil parish and a large village in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the border with Devon. The village is situated on the River Tamar south west of Tavistock and north of Plymouth....
  
  
• Camborne
  Camborne
  Camborne is a town and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is at the western edge of a conurbation comprising Camborne, Pool and Redruth....
  
  
• Camelford
  Camelford
  Camelford is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of Bodmin Moor. The town is approximately ten miles north of Bodmin and is governed by Camelford Town Council....
  
  
• Falmouth
  Falmouth, Cornwall
  Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....
  
  
• Fowey
  Fowey
  Fowey is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,273.-Early history:...
  
  

• Hayle
  Hayle
  Hayle is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated at the mouth of the Hayle River and is approximately seven miles northeast of Penzance...
  
  
• Helston
  Helston
  Helston is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated at the northern end of the Lizard Peninsula approximately 12 miles east of Penzance and nine miles southwest of Falmouth. Helston is the most southerly town in the UK and is around further south than...
  
  
• Launceston
• Liskeard
  Liskeard
  Liskeard is an ancient stannary and market town and civil parish in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Liskeard is situated approximately 20 miles west of Plymouth, west of the River Tamar and the border with Devon, and 12 miles east of Bodmin...
  
  
• Looe
  Looe
  Looe is a small coastal town, fishing port and civil parish in the former Caradon district of south-east Cornwall, England, with a population of 5,280 . Looe is divided in two by the River Looe, East Looe and West Looe being connected by a bridge...
  
  
• Lostwithiel
  Lostwithiel
  Lostwithiel is a civil parish and small town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom at the head of the estuary of the River Fowey. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,739...
  
  
• Newquay
  Newquay
  Newquay is a town, civil parish, seaside resort and fishing port in Cornwall, England. It is situated on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall approximately west of Bodmin and north of Truro....
  
  
• Padstow
  Padstow
  Padstow is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town is situated on the west bank of the River Camel estuary approximately five miles northwest of Wadebridge, ten miles northwest of Bodmin and ten miles northeast of Newquay...
  
  
• Penryn
  Penryn, Cornwall
  Penryn is a civil parish and town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Penryn River about one mile northwest of Falmouth...
  
  
• Penzance
  Penzance
  Penzance is a town, civil parish, and port in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is approximately 75 miles west of Plymouth and 300 miles west-southwest of London...
  
  

• Polperro
  Polperro
  Polperro is a village and fishing harbour on the south-east Cornwall coast in South West England, UK, within the civil parish of Lansallos. Situated on the River Pol, 4 miles west of the neighbouring town of Looe and west of the major city and naval port of Plymouth, it is well-known for...
  
  
• Redruth
  Redruth
  Redruth is a town and civil parish traditionally in the Penwith Hundred in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has a population of 12,352. Redruth lies approximately at the junction of the A393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road , and is approximately west of...
  
  
• Saltash
  Saltash
  Saltash is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a population of 14,964. It lies in the south east of Cornwall, facing Plymouth over the River Tamar. It was in the Caradon district until March 2009 and is known as "the gateway to Cornwall". Saltash means ash tree by...
  
  
• St Austell
  St Austell
  St Austell is a civil parish and a major town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated on the south coast approximately ten miles south of Bodmin and 30 miles west of the border with Devon at Saltash...
  
  
• St Columb
  St Columb
  -People:*Columba, also known as St Columb of Scotland*Saint Columba the Virgin, also known as St Columb of Cornwall-Places:In Northern Ireland*St Columb's Cathedral, Derry*St Columb's College, DerryIn Cornwall, UK*St Columb Canal*St Columb Major...
  
  
• St Ives
  St Ives, Cornwall
  St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial...
  
  
• St Just in Penwith
  St Just in Penwith
  St Just is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the town of St Just and the nearby settlements of Trewellard, Pendeen and Kelynack: it is bounded by the parishes of Morvah to the north-east, Sancreed and Madron to the east, St Buryan and Sennen to...
  
  
• Tintagel
  Tintagel
  Tintagel is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The population of the parish is 1,820 people, and the area of the parish is ....
  
  
• Torpoint
  Torpoint
  Torpoint is a civil parish and town on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated opposite the city of Plymouth across the Hamoaze which is the tidal estuary of the River Tamar....
  
  
• Truro
  Truro
  Truro is a city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The city is the centre for administration, leisure and retail in Cornwall, with a population recorded in the 2001 census of 17,431. Truro urban statistical area, which includes parts of surrounding parishes, has a 2001 census...
  
  
• Wadebridge
  Wadebridge
  Wadebridge is a civil parish and town in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town straddles the River Camel five miles upstream from Padstow....
  
  

History

• Timeline of Cornish history‎
• Celt
  Celt
  The Celts were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages.The earliest archaeological culture commonly accepted as Celtic, or rather Proto-Celtic, was the central European Hallstatt culture , named for the rich grave finds in Hallstatt, Austria....
  
  
• Cornish currency
  Cornish currency
  Cornish currency has been issued in various forms since medieval times and possibly earlier. 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. The 15 Bezants on the arms of the Duke...
  
  
• 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 and post-Roman periods and gave their name to Cornwall or Kernow....
  
  
• Celtic nations
  Celtic nations
  The Celtic nations are territories in North-West Europe in which that area's own Celtic languages and some cultural traits have survived.The term "nation" is used in its original sense to mean a people who share a common traditional identity and culture and are identified with a traditional...
  
  
• Cornish saints
• Dumnonii
  Dumnonii
  The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British Celtic tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Devon and Cornwall in the farther parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period...
  
  
• Kingdom of Cornwall
  Kingdom of Cornwall
  The Kingdom of Cornwall was an independent polity in southwest Britain during the Early Middle Ages, roughly coterminous with the modern English county of Cornwall. During the sub-Roman and early medieval periods Cornwall was evidently part of the kingdom of Dumnonia, which included most of the...
  
  
• Hundreds of Cornwall
  Hundreds of Cornwall
  Cornwall was from Anglo-Saxon times until the 19th century divided into hundreds, some with the suffix shire as in Pydarshire, East and West Wivelshire and Powdershire which were first recorded as names between 1184-1187. In the Cornish language the word for "hundred" is keverang and is the...
  
  
• Maps of Cornwall
  Maps of Cornwall
  Cornwall was originally known as Kernow and this name applied to the Kingdom of Cornwall during the period of the Heptarchy . To the Anglo-Saxons it was known as West Wales...
  
  
• 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 larger than the local government district of Penwith which took its name...
  
  
• Kerrier (hundred)
  Kerrier (hundred)
  The hundred of Kerrier was the name of one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. Kerrier is thought by Charles Thomas to be derived from an obsolete name of Castle Pencaire on Tregonning Hill, Breage...
  
  
• Triggshire
  Triggshire
  The hundred of Trigg was one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall--see "Hundreds of Cornwall".Trigg is mentioned by name during the 7th century, as "Pagus Tricurius", "land of three war hosts". It was to the north of Cornwall, and included Bodmin Moor, Bodmin and the district to the...
  
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• Robert, Count of Mortain
  Robert, Count of Mortain
  Robert, Count of Mortain, 1st Earl of Cornwall was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother of William I of England. Robert was the son of Herluin de Conteville and Herleva of Falaise and was full brother to Odo of Bayeux. The exact year of Robert's birth is unknown Robert, Count of Mortain, 1st...
  
  
• Duchy of Cornwall
  Duchy of Cornwall
  The Duchy of Cornwall is one of two royal duchies in England, the other being the Duchy of Lancaster. The eldest son of the reigning British monarch inherits the duchy and title of Duke of Cornwall at the time of his birth, or of his parent's succession to the throne. If the monarch has no son, the...
  
  
• Duchies in the United Kingdom
• Legendary Dukes of Cornwall
  Legendary Dukes of Cornwall
  "Duke of Cornwall" appears as a title in pseudo-historical authors as Nennius and Geoffrey of Monmouth. The list is extremely patchy, and not every succession was unbroken. Indeed, Geoffrey repeatedly introduces Dukes of Cornwall only to promote them to the Kingship of the Britons and thus put an...
  
  
• Cornish Uprising of 1497
  Cornish Rebellion of 1497
  The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 was a popular uprising by the people of Cornwall in the far southwest of Britain. Its primary cause was a response of people to the raising of war taxes by King Henry VII on the impoverished Cornish, to raise money for a campaign against Scotland motivated by brief...
  
  
• Cornish Uprising of 1497 - An Gof
  Michael An Gof
  Michael Joseph and Thomas Flamank were the leaders of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497....
  
  
• 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 against taxes in 1497....
  
  
• Second Cornish Uprising of 1497
  Second Cornish Uprising of 1497
  The Second Cornish Uprising is the name given to the Cornish 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 British Crown to take place in the county of Cornwall.-Background information to the event:...
  
  
• Cornish Foreshore Case
  Cornish Foreshore Case
  The Cornish Foreshore Case was an arbitration case held between 1854 and 1858 to resolve a formal dispute between the British Crown and the Duchy of Cornwall over the ownership of the foreshore of the county of Cornwall in the southwest of England...
  
  
• Keskerdh Kernow 500
• Perkin Warbeck
  Perkin Warbeck
  Perkin Warbeck was a pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII of England. By claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, one of the Princes in the Tower, Warbeck was a significant threat to the newly established Tudor Dynasty,...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Early Cornish Texts
  Early Cornish Texts
  Specimens of Middle Cornish texts are given here in Cornish and English. Both texts have been dated within the period 1370-1410 and the Charter Fragment is given in two Cornish orthographies. -Background:The absorption of Cornwall within the Kingdom of England was not immediate...
  
  
• Materials in cornish law
  Materials in cornish law
  This is a list of charters promulgated by kings of England that specifically relate to Cornwall. Various such charters were issued from 1201 to 1508. Having been incorporated into the Kingdom of England late in the Anglo-Saxon period, the constitutional status was unlike that of the rest of England...
  
  
• 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. In 1549 the Book of Common Prayer, presenting the theology of the English Reformation, was introduced...
  
  
• Battle of Lostwithiel
  Battle of Lostwithiel
  The Battles of Lostwithiel or Lostwithiel Campaign, took place near Lostwithiel and Fowey during the First English Civil War in 1644.After defeating the Army of Sir William Waller at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, King Charles marched west in pursuit of the Parliamentarian army of the Earl of...
  
  
• Cornwall (territorial duchy)
• Cornwall in the English Civil War
  Cornwall in the English Civil War
  Cornwall played a significant role in the English Civil War, being a Royalist enclave in the generally Parliamentarian south-west.-Civil War military actions in Cornwall and the South West:...
  
  
• The Gear Rout
  The Gear Rout
  The Gear Rout was a Cornish 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....
  
  
• Battle of Sampford Courtenay
  Battle of Sampford Courtenay
  The Battle of Sampford Courtenay was one of the chief actions in the Western Rebellion of 1549.-Preparations:By mid August 1549, Humphrey Arundell, the leader of the rebel troops, regrouped his forces at Sampford Courtenay when he received a promise from Winchester that 1,000 men would join his...
  
  
• Stateless nation
  Stateless nation
  A stateless nation is a group, usually a minority ethnic group, considered as a nation entitled to its own state for that nation. Since there are few objective criteria for whether a particular group is a nation, or which particular group "has" any given multinational state, usage of the term is...
  
  
• Dumnonia
  Dumnonia
  Dumnonia is the Latinised name for the Brythonic kingdom in sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries, located in the farther parts of the south-west peninsula of Great Britain...
  
  
• Clyst St Mary
  Clyst St Mary
  Clyst St Mary is a small village and civil parish east of Exeter on the main roads to Exmouth and Sidmouth in East Devon. The name comes from the Celtic word clyst meaning 'clear stream'.-Description:...
  
  
• Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament
  Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament
  The Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament , is a pressure group which claims to be a revival of the historic Cornish Stannary Parliament last held in 1753...
  
  
• Stannary Courts and Parliaments
  Stannary Courts and Parliaments
  The Stannary Parliaments and Stannary Courts were legislative and legal institutions in Cornwall and in Devon , England. The Stannary Courts administered equity for the region's tin-miners and tin mining interests, and they were also courts of record for the towns dependent on the mines...
  
  
• Stannary town
• Cornish emigration
  Cornish emigration
  The Cornish diaspora consists of Cornish people and their descendants who emigrated from Cornwall. The diaspora is found in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Brazil....
  
  
• Battle of Deorham
  Battle of Deorham
  The Battle of Deorham or Dyrham was fought in 577 between the West Saxons under Ceawlin and Cuthwine and the Britons of the West Country. The location, Deorham, is usually taken to refer to Dyrham in South Gloucestershire. The battle was a major victory for the West Saxons, who took three important...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Lew Trenchard
  Lew Trenchard
  Lew Trenchard is a parish and village in west Devon, England. Most of the larger village of Lewdown is in the parish. In Domesday Book a manor of Lew is recorded in this area and two rivers have the same name: see River Lew. Trenchard comes from the lords of the manor in the 13th century...
  
  
• Clyst Heath
  Clyst Heath
  Clyst Heath is a suburb to the south east of Exeter, Devon, to the east of Rydon Lane.On 5 August 1549 Clyst Heath was the site of one of the worst atrocities in British history during the Prayer Book Rebellion when troops loyal to the King under the command of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford...
  
  
• Penlee lifeboat disaster
  Penlee lifeboat disaster
  The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the coast of Cornwall, in England, UK. The Penlee Lifeboat went to the aid of the coaster Union Star after its engines failed 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 in Cornwall. It was built next to the railway track and covered an area of approximately . The site was laid out in ranks of white concrete huts and was dominated by a tall Water tower. Around...
  
  
• The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
  Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
  The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army.It was formed in 1959 by the merger of two regiments: The Somerset Light Infantry and 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 on the three days beginning 18 May 1896 ; it arose from the local fishery and the trade in fish.- Background :...
  
  
• Woodbury Common, Devon
  Woodbury Common, Devon
  Woodbury Common in East Devon is an area of common land that is predominantly heathland adjacent to the village of Woodbury, Devon.Within the common is Woodbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort situated on a viewpoint overlooking westwards the villages of Woodbury and Woodbury Salterton and across the...
  
  
• Glasney College
  Glasney College
  Glasney College was founded in 1265 at Penryn, Cornwall, by Bishop Bronescombe and was a centre of ecclesiastical power in medieval Cornwall and probably the best known and most important of Cornwall's religious institutions.-History:...
  
  
• Cornish settlement in South Australia
  Copper Coast
  *This article is about a region in Australia. For coast of County Waterford, Ireland, see Copper Coast .Copper Coast is a region of South Australia situated in Northern Yorke Peninsula and comprising the towns of Wallaroo, Kadina, Moonta, Paskeville and Port Hughes. The area approximately bounded...
  
  
• Penna (surname)
  Penna (surname)
  Penna is a surname originating in Italy in an area known as the Papal States. Since Papal names often denoted place of origin, the Penna family lived in one of several places in Italy named Penna....
  
  
• Nankivell (surname)
  Nankivell (surname)
  Nankivell is a surname originating from Cornwall, it may refer to:* Edward J. Nankivell* Joice NanKivell Loch, an Australian author, journalist and humanitarian worker who worked with refugees in Poland, Greece and Romania after World War I and World War II....
  
  
• Treffry
  Treffry
  Treffry is an Cornish surname. The first record of the name Treffry was found in Cornwall where they were anciently seated as Lords of the Manor of Treffry, some say, at the time of the taking of the Domesday Book survey in 1086...
  
  
• Clyst Heath
  Clyst Heath
  Clyst Heath is a suburb to the south east of Exeter, Devon, to the east of Rydon Lane.On 5 August 1549 Clyst Heath was the site of one of the worst atrocities in British history during the Prayer Book Rebellion when troops loyal to the King under the command of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford...
  
  
• Woodbury Common, Devon
  Woodbury Common, Devon
  Woodbury Common in East Devon is an area of common land that is predominantly heathland adjacent to the village of Woodbury, Devon.Within the common is Woodbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort situated on a viewpoint overlooking westwards the villages of Woodbury and Woodbury Salterton and across the...
  
  
• Battle of Sampford Courtenay
  Battle of Sampford Courtenay
  The Battle of Sampford Courtenay was one of the chief actions in the Western Rebellion of 1549.-Preparations:By mid August 1549, Humphrey Arundell, the leader of the rebel troops, regrouped his forces at Sampford Courtenay when he received a promise from Winchester that 1,000 men would join his...
  
  
• Clyst St Mary
  Clyst St Mary
  Clyst St Mary is a small village and civil parish east of Exeter on the main roads to Exmouth and Sidmouth in East Devon. The name comes from the Celtic word clyst meaning 'clear stream'.-Description:...
  
  

Hospitals

• Camborne Redruth Community Hospital
  Camborne Redruth Community Hospital
  The Camborne Redruth Community Hospital is a National Health Service hospital in Cornwall, UK.-Departments:Day hospital, outpatients, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, minor injury unit....
  
  
• Bodmin Hospital
• Royal Cornwall Hospital
• St Michael's Hospital, Hayle
  St Michael's Hospital, Hayle
  St Michael's Hospital, Hayle is a small hospital located in Hayle, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hospital carries out approximately 5,000 operations each year ....
  
  
• West Cornwall Hospital
  West Cornwall Hospital
  West Cornwall Hospital is located in St. Clare street in Penzance.- Medical Admissions Unit :* 22 Beds* 4 bedded High Dependency Unit* Portable Cardiac monitoring* Exercise tolerance test services- Surgical Unit :* 26 Beds...
  
  

Icons

• Cornish symbols
  Cornish symbols
  Many different symbols are associated with Cornwall, a county in the United Kingdom.Saint Piran's Flag, a white cross on a black background is often seen in Cornwall. The Duchy of Cornwall shield of 15 gold bezants on a black field is also used. Because of these two symbols black, white and gold...
  
  
• Saint Piran's Flag
  Saint Piran's Flag
  Saint Piran's Flag is the flag of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The earliest known description of the flag as the Standard of Cornwall was written in 1838. It is used by Cornish people as a symbol of identity. It is a white cross on a black background....
  
  
• The Song of the Western Men
  The Song of the Western Men
  "The Song of the Western Men" was written by Robert Stephen Hawker. It is also known by the title of "Trelawny".Hawker wrote the song in 1824, telling of events that took place in 1688. When the song first appeared many thought it to be a contemporary record of events, although in fact the song...
  
  
• 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 Welsh national anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau...
  
  

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:The company was formed on 5 February 1870, principally by the shareholders in the West Cornwall Railway...
  
  
• History of the Isles of Scilly
• Islands in the Isles of Scilly
• Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly: category, list
• Transport in the Isles of Scilly
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the Isles of Scilly

Language

• Kernow - Cornish language
• Doronieth Kernewek
• Lyenn Kernewek
• Celtic languages
  Celtic languages
  The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic"; a branch of the greater Indo-European language family...
  
  
• 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 and minority languages in Europe...
  
  
• Cornish Language Controversy
• Kernowyon
• Cornish language Wikipedia
• Henhwedhlow Kernewek
• Ilow Gernewek
• Tornyaseth yn Kernow
• Trevow yn Kernow
• Languages of the United Kingdom
• Kernowek Standard
  Kernowek Standard
  Kernowek Standard is a variety of revived Cornish and a proposed set of revisions to the Standard Written Form. Developed gradually by a group called UdnFormScrefys , it was published as a proposal in a series of revisions. Its principal authors were Michael Everson, Neil Kennedy, and Nicholas...
  
  
• Standard Written Form
  Standard Written Form
  The Standard Written Form or SWF 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"...
  
  
• 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. It takes much of its inspiration from medieval sources, particularly Cornish passion plays, as well as Breton and to a lesser extent Welsh...
  
  
• Modern Cornish
  Modern Cornish
  Modern Cornish is a variety of the revived Cornish language. It is sometimes called Revived Late Cornish or Kernuack Dewethas, to distinguish it from other forms of contemporary revived Cornish....
  
  
• Unified Cornish
  Unified Cornish
  Unified Cornish is a variety of revived Cornish. 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...
  
  
• Organizations
• Agan Tavas
  Agan Tavas
  Agan Tavas is a society which exists to promote the Cornish language, and is represented on the Cornish Language Partnership. It was formed in 1987 to promote the use of Cornish as a spoken language. At that time only those observed to be using the language fluently could become members by...
  
  
• Kesva an Taves Kernewek
  Kesva an Taves Kernewek
  Kesva an Taves Kernewek is an organisation that promotes the Cornish language. It was founded in 1967 by Gorseth Kernow and the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. It is represented on the official language body, the Cornish Language Partnership.It currently has 18 members, 13 elected and 5...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Cornish Language Council (Cussel an Tavas Kernuak)
• Dalleth
  Dalleth
  Dalleth was a support organisation for parents and families bringing up children to speak Cornish. It organised camps and other children's activities, mostly during Cornish Language related events...
  
  

• Individual people
• Alison Treganning
• Bernard Deacon
  Bernard Deacon
  Bernard W. Deacon is a multidisciplinary academic, based at the Institute of Cornish Studies of the University of Exeter at the Tremough Campus. He has an Open University doctorate and displays his thesis on the ICS website.-Academic career:...
  
  
• 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. His works in Cornish include an epitaph for the language scholar John Keigwin, and the "Pilchard Curing Rhyme". He also translated parts of the Bible, the...
  
  
• 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
  Henry Jenner FSA was a British scholar of the Celtic languages, a Cornish cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival....
  
  
• E.G. Retallack Hooper
  E.G. Retallack Hooper
  Ernest George Retallack Hooper was a Cornish writer and journalist from St Agnes, Cornwall who became the third Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow in 1959 to 1964...
  
  
• Ken George
  Ken George
  Kenneth J. George, writing as Ken George, is an oceanographer, poet, 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 . Kernewek Kemmyn was introduced in 1987...
  
  
• Massen Wlesik
• Robert Morton Nance
  Robert Morton Nance
  Robert Morton Nance was a leading authority on the Cornish language, nautical archaeologist, and joint founder of the Old Cornwall Society....
  
  
• 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. He was the Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow between 2003-2006 with the bardic name of "Tewennow"...
  
  
• Richard Gendall
  Richard Gendall
  Richard Gendall is a British expert on the Cornish language, born in 1924. He is the founder of "Modern Cornish"/Curnoack Nowedga, which split off during the 1980s. Whereas Ken George mainly went to Medieval Cornish as the inspiration for his revival, Gendall went to the last surviving records of...
  
  
• Nicholas Williams
  Nicholas Williams
  Nicholas Jonathan Anselm Williams , writing as Nicholas Williams or sometimes N.J.A...
  
  
• Vanessa Beeman
  Vanessa Beeman
  Vanessa Beeman was born Vanessa Hocking in Nairobi and at a younger age lived in Tanzania. Her father Kaspar Hocking was employed as a Government entomologist in East Africa.-Early life:...
  
  
• Words and names
• List of Cornish dialect words
• Emmet (Cornish)
  Emmet
  - Places :United Staes* Emmet, Arkansas* Emmet, Nebraska* Emmet, South Dakota* Emmet, Dodge County, Wisconsin, a town* Emmet, Marathon County, Wisconsin, a town* Emmet County, Iowa* Emmet County, Michigan* Emmet Township - People :* A...
  
  
• Penna (surname)
  Penna (surname)
  Penna is a surname originating in Italy in an area known as the Papal States. Since Papal names often denoted place of origin, the Penna family lived in one of several places in Italy named Penna....
  
  
• Nankivell (surname)
  Nankivell (surname)
  Nankivell is a surname originating from Cornwall, it may refer to:* Edward J. Nankivell* Joice NanKivell Loch, an Australian author, journalist and humanitarian worker who worked with refugees in Poland, Greece and Romania after World War I and World War II....
  
  
• Treffry
  Treffry
  Treffry is an Cornish surname. The first record of the name Treffry was found in Cornwall where they were anciently seated as Lords of the Manor of Treffry, some say, at the time of the taking of the Domesday Book survey in 1086...
  
  
• Baragwanath
  Baragwanath
  Baragwanath is a Cornish language surname originating in west Cornwall in the UK. As a result of emigration members of the Baragwanath family can now be found in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand...
  
  

Media

• Cornish Guardian
  Cornish Guardian
  Cornish Guardian is a weekly newspaper in Cornwall, UK, which is part of the Cornwall & Devon Media group. It is published in 7 separate editions:*Bodmin edition*Lostwithiel and Fowey edition*Newquay edition*North Cornwall edition...
  
  
• BBC Radio Cornwall
  BBC Radio Cornwall
  BBC Radio Cornwall is the BBC Local Radio service for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in the United Kingdom. It broadcasts from its studios on Phoenix Wharf in Truro on 95.2 in the east, 96.0 on the Isles of Scilly and 103.9 in the west MHz FM, as well as on DAB.Andrew George, MP for St Ives, has...
  
  
• Pirate FM
  Pirate FM
  Pirate FM is one of the Independent Local Radio stations for Cornwall, playing a range of music from the 1960's to the present day.-Background:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Western Morning News
  Western Morning News
  The Western Morning News is a politically independent daily regional newspaper founded in 1860 and covering Devon and Cornwall and parts of Somerset and Dorset.-Organisation:...
  
  

• Cornwall Film Festival
  Cornwall Film Festival
  The Cornwall Film Festival is an annual festival started in 2001 which focuses on Cornish film making, offering local and national premieres, and hosts masterclasses, workshops and discussions for everyone from the enthusiast to the professional.The festival supports Cornish film making in the...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• South West Film Studios
  South West Film Studios
  The South West Film Studios were built in 2002 at St Agnes 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...
  
  
• Twelveheads Press
  Twelveheads Press
  Twelveheads Press is an independent publishing company based in Chacewater near Truro, Cornwall, UK. Best known for their Cornish Heritage series but also well known by scholars and enthusiasts for their transport and mining books: the firm takes its name from the hamlet of Twelveheads.-History...
  
  

Mining

• Geology of Cornwall
  Geology of Cornwall
  The Geology of Cornwall is dominated by its granite backbone, part of the Cornubian batholith, formed during the Variscan orogeny. Around this is an extensive metamorphic aureole 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, was founded in 1888. It is now 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
• Dolcoath mine
  Dolcoath mine
  Dolcoath mine was a copper and tin mine in Camborne, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. Its name derives from the Cornish for 'Old Ground', and it was also affectionately known as The Queen of Cornish Mines. The site is north-west of Carn Brea. Dolcoath Road runs between the A3047 road and Chapel Hill...
  
  
• South Crofty
  South Crofty
  South Crofty is a metalliferous Tin and Copper mine located in the village of Pool, Cornwall, England UK. An ancient mine, it has seen production for over 400 years, and extends almost two and a half miles across and down and has mined over 40 lodes. Evidence of mining activity in South Crofty has...
  
  
• Wheal Jane
  Wheal Jane
  Wheal Jane is a disused tin mine near Baldhu and Chacewater in West Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The area itself consisted of a large number of mines.-History:Wheal Jane was probably seriously worked for tin from the mid-18th century...
  
  
• Geevor Tin Mine
  Geevor Tin Mine
  Geevor Tin Mine is a tin mine in the far west of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, between the villages of Pendeen and Trewellard. It was operational between 1911 and 1990 during which time it produced about 50,000 tons of black tin. It is now a museum and heritage centre left as a living history...
  
  
• Mount Wellington Tin Mine
  Mount Wellington Tin Mine
  Mount Wellington Tin mine, two miles east of the village of St Day in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, opened in 1976 and was the first new mine in the region in many years....
  
  
• King Edward Mine
  King Edward Mine
  The King Edward Mine at Camborne, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom is a mine wholly owned by the Camborne School of Mines of the University of Exeter....
  
  
• Levant Mine & Beam Engine
  Levant Mine & Beam Engine
  Levant Mine and Beam Engine is a National Trust property at Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has the world's only Cornish beam engine still operated by steam on its original site...
  
  

• 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...
  
  
• CSM Association
  CSM Association
  The Camborne School of Mines Association was formed for all former students 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 charity, based in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The Society exists to promote innovation in the arts and sciences...
  
  
• 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 FRS, 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...
  
  
• 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, near Redruth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, and in the ownership of the National Trust.-External links:*...
  
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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. Its original function was as a Court dealing with the Cornish tin industry...
  
  
• 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 prehistoric funerary cairn which Ashbee and Hencken state contains several phases of use from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. It is situated on the cliff top at Ballowall Common, near St Just in Cornwall, England, UK...
  
  
• Bodmin and Wenford Railway 
• Bodmin Gaol
• Bodmin Moor
  Bodmin Moor
  Bodmin Moor is a granite moorland in northeastern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in size, and originally dates from the Carboniferous period of geological history....
  
   
• Bolventor
  Bolventor
  Bolventor is a hamlet on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated in Altarnun civil parish between Launceston and Bodmin.Bolventor is the location of the famous Jamaica Inn coaching inn...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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 in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hilltop site is situated approximately one mile southwest of Redruth.-Neolithic settlement:...
  
  
• 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. Excavations on this site have shown that there was activity at Carn Euny as early as the Neolithic period...
  
  
• Carn Marth
  Carn Marth
  Carn Marth is the name of a hill in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, near Redruth. It is high, and is well known for the granite quarried from it in the past.-Geography and history:...
  
  
• Carrick Roads
  Carrick Roads
  Carrick Roads is located on the southern Cornish coast in the UK, near Falmouth. 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...
  
  
• 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 .- Description and History :It consists of circular bank and ditch enclosure with a second enclosure nearby thought to have been an animal corral...
  
  
• Chacewater
  Chacewater
  Chacewater is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately three miles east of Redruth.-Village:...
  
  
• Chûn Castle
  Chûn Castle
  Chûn Castle is a large Iron Age hillfort near Penzance in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The fort was built around two and a half thousand years ago, and fell into disuse until the 6th century AD when it was possibly reoccupied to protect the nearby tin mines. It stands beside a prehistoric trackway...
  
   
• Chûn Quoit
  Chûn Quoit
  The best preserved of all quoits in Cornwall, UK is Chûn Quoit, located in open moorland near Pendeen and Morvah. 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 a late Iron Age and 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
  Cotehele, , is a mediaeval/Tudor house located in the parish of Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK. In Cornish the placename is Koesheyl . Probably originating circa 1300, the main phases of building appear to have been by Sir Richard Edgcumbe from 1485–89 and his son, Sir Piers Edgcumbe, from...
  
   
• Dozmary Pool
  Dozmary Pool
  Dozmary Pool is a small lake on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, UK situated 16.9 km/10.5 mi from the sea. It lies about 15 km northeast of Bodmin and 2 km south of Bolventor: it originated in the post-glacial period. The outflow from the pool is into Colliford Lake...
  
  
• Drift Reservoir
  Drift Reservoir
  Drift Reservoir is a reservoir in Cornwall, UK, just north of Drift village, southwest of Penzance. The reservoir is approximately a mile long. It has a large dam at its southern end, and at the northern end, splits into a northwestern and a northeastern arm...
  
  
• Dupath Well
  Dupath Well
  Dupath Well is a nearly intact wellhouse, constructed of local granite, built over a spring. Built of Cornish granite ashlar, it has a steeply-pitched roof, built from courses of granite slabs that run the length of the building. There are badly weathered pinnacles at each corner and a small bell...
  
  
• Eden Project
  Eden Project
  The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse. Inside the artificial biomes are plants that are collected from all around the world....
  
  
• Fistral Beach
  Fistral Beach
  Fistral Beach is in Fistral Bay on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated half-a-mile west of Newquay at ....
  
  
• Glendurgan Garden
  Glendurgan Garden
  Glendurgan Garden is a National Trust garden situated above the hamlet of Durgan on the Helford River in Mawnan Smith, near Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Glendurgan Garden was laid out by Alfred Fox in the 1820s and 1830s...
  
   
• 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 Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, England, UK. Situated just south of Helston and the Naval Air Station at Culdrose, it is famous for its Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, the...
  
  
• Goss Moor NNR
  Goss Moor NNR
  Goss Moor is a National Nature Reserve in Cornwall, located in the parishes of St. Dennis, St. Columb Major, Roche and St. Enoder. It is the largest continuous mire complex in South-West Britain and consists of mainly Peatland and Lowland Heath...
  
  
• Gweek seal sanctuary
  National Seal Sanctuary, Gweek
  Gweek Seal Sanctuary is a charity funded sanctuary for injured seal 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 fogous in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.The site is under the guardianship of English Heritage, and managed by The Trelowarren Estate...
  
  

• Helford
  Helford
  Helford is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the south bank of the Helford River and is approximately five miles south-southwest of Falmouth.Helford is in the civil parish of Manaccan...
  
  
• Helford River
  Helford River
  The Helford River is a ria located in Cornwall, England, UK, and not a true river. It is fed by a number of small streams into its numerous creeks...
  
  
• Helford Passage
  Helford Passage
  Helford Passage is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the north bank of the Helford River opposite Helford approximately five miles south-southwest of Falmouth....
  
  
• The Hurlers
  The Hurlers (stone circles)
  The Hurlers are a group of three stone circles in Cornwall, England, UK. The site is half-a-mile west of the village of Minions on the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor, and approximately four miles north of Liskeard at .-Location:The Hurlers are in the Caradon district north of Liskeard in the...
  
   
• 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 Dungarth, King of Cornwall who died around 875....
  
  
• King Edward Mine
  King Edward Mine
  The King Edward Mine at Camborne, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom is a mine wholly owned by the Camborne School of Mines of the University of Exeter....
  
  
• Kit Hill Country Park
• Kynance Cove
  Kynance Cove
  Kynance Cove is a cove in southwest Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the Lizard peninsula approximately two miles north of Lizard Point...
  
   
• Land's End
  Land's End
  Land's End is a headland and small settlement in west Cornwall, England, within the United Kingdom. It is located on the Penwith peninsula approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance....
  
   
• Lanhydrock House
  Lanhydrock House
  Lanhydrock is a civil parish centred on a country estate and mansion in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish lies south of the town of Bodmin and is bounded to the north by Bodmin parish, to the south by Lanlivery parish and to the west by Lanivet parish. The population was 171 in the 2001 census...
  
   
• Lanyon Quoit
  Lanyon Quoit
  Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, 2 miles southeast of Morvah. 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. The capstone rested at 7 feet high with dimensions of 9 feet by 17.5 feet...
  
   
• 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.-Treffry's Tramway:...
  
  
• Launceston Castle
  Launceston Castle
  Launceston Castle is located in the town of Launceston, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. .-Early history:The castle is a Norman 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 in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The most southerly point of the British mainland is near Lizard Point at ....
  
   
• Lizard Point, Cornwall
  Lizard Point, Cornwall
  Lizard Point in Cornwall is at the southern tip of the Lizard Peninsula. It is situated half-a-mile south of Lizard village in the civil parish of Landewednack and approximately 11 miles southeast of Helston....
  
  
• 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 UK. The style of the gardens is typical of the nineteenth century Gardenesque style, with areas of different character and in different design styles.The gardens were created by members of...
  
  
• Mên-an-Tol
  Mên-an-Tol
  The Mên-an-Tol is a small formation of standing stones near the Madron-Morvah road in Cornwall, United Kingdom . It is about 3 miles north west of Madron...
  
   
• Mevagissey
  Mevagissey
  Mevagissey is a village, fishing port and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately five miles south of St Austell....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 to Gwennap Head on the eastern side of the Land's End peninsula. Towards the middle of the bay is St Michael's Mount...
  
  
• Mullion Cove
  Mullion Cove
  Mullion Cove is a harbour on the Lizard peninsula in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated facing west into Mount's Bay approximately six miles south of Helston and one mile southwest of Mullion village....
  
   
• Mylor Bridge
  Mylor Bridge
  Mylor Bridge is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated in Mylor civil parish at the head of Mylor Creek approximately five miles north of Falmouth....
  
  
• Pencarrow
  Pencarrow
  Pencarrow is a country house in north Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles east-southeast of Wadebridge and three miles north-northwest of Bodmin...
  
  
• Pendennis Castle
  Pendennis Castle
  Pendennis Castle is a Henrician castle, also known as one of Henry VIII's Device Forts, in the English county of Cornwall. It was built in 1539 for King Henry VIII to guard the entrance to the River Fal on its west bank, near Falmouth. St Mawes Castle is its opposite number on the east bank and...
  
  
• Penhallam
  Penhallam
  Penhallam is the site of a medieval manor house surrounded by a protective moat. It was designated as a Scheduled Monument in 1996 and is now in the guardianship of English Heritage....
  
  
• Penjerrick Garden
  Penjerrick Garden
  Penjerrick Garden, often referred to as "Cornwall's true jungle garden", lies between Budock Water and Mawnan Smith, near Falmouth, United Kingdom....
  
  
• Penlee House
• Penwith
  Penwith
  Penwith was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council was based in Penzance. The district covered all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which included an area of land to the east that fell outside the...
  
  
• Penwith Peninsula

• Poldhu
  Poldhu
  Poldhu is a small area in south Cornwall, England, UK, situated on the Lizard Peninsula; it comprises Poldhu Point and Poldhu Cove. It lies on the coast west of Goonhilly Downs, with Mullion to the south and Porthleven to the north...
  
   
• Polperro
  Polperro
  Polperro is a village and fishing harbour on the south-east Cornwall coast in South West England, UK, within the civil parish of Lansallos. Situated on the River Pol, 4 miles west of the neighbouring town of Looe and west of the major city and naval port of Plymouth, it is well-known for...
  
  
• Porthcurno Museum of Submarine Telegraphy
• Restormel Castle
  Restormel Castle
  Restormel Castle is situated on the River Fowey near Lostwithiel, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall, the others being Launceston, Tintagel and Trematon. The castle is notable for its perfectly circular design...
  
  
• River Fowey
  River Fowey
  The River Fowey is a river in Cornwall, United Kingdom.It rises about north-west of Brown Willy on Bodmin Moor, passes Lanhydrock House, Restormel Castle and Lostwithiel, then broadens at Milltown before joining the English Channel at Fowey. It is only navigable by larger craft for the last ....
  
  
• 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 West England, that forms most of the border between Devon and Cornwall . It is one of several British rivers whose ancient name is assumed to be derived from a prehistoric river word apparently meaning "dark flowing" and which it shares with the River Thames.The...
  
  
• Roseland Peninsula
• Royal Cornwall Museum
  Royal Cornwall Museum
  The Royal Cornwall Museum is a museum in the city of Truro, Cornwall, England. It is the oldest museum in Cornwall and the leading museum of Cornish culture. Its exhibits include minerals, an unwrapped mummy and objects relating to Cornwall’s unique culture...
  
  
• Sancreed
  Sancreed
  Sancreed is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately three miles from Penzance....
  
  
• Seaton Valley Countryside Park
  Seaton Valley Countryside Park
  Seaton Valley Countryside Park is the newest of Cornwall's four Country Parks. It is situated in the Seaton valley between the villages of Seaton and Hessenford....
  
  
• Sennen
  Sennen
  Sennen is a coastal civil parish and a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Sennen village is situated approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance....
  
  
• Scorrier
  Scorrier
  Scorrier is a village in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It is about 2 miles northeast of the centre of Redruth and 3 miles south-east of the coast at Porthtowan, on the A30 road at the junction of the A3047 road that leads west to Camborne and the B3298 road south to Carharrack...
  
  
• South West Coast Path
  South West Coast Path
  The South West Coast Path is Britain's longest waymarked long-distance footpath and a National Trail. It stretches for , running from Minehead in Somerset, along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, to Poole Harbour in Dorset. Since it rises and falls with every river mouth, it is also one of the more...
  
  
• St Breock Downs Monolith
• St Catherine's Castle
  St Catherine's Castle
  St Catherine's Castle is a small fort commissioned by Henry VIII. It is a two-storey building built to protect Fowey Harbour in Cornwall, United Kingdom. A twin battery of 64-pdr RMLS was added on a lower terrace in 1855...
  
  
• St Mawes Castle
  St Mawes Castle
  St Mawes Castle and its larger sister castle, Pendennis, were built as part of a defensive chain of fortresses by Henry VIII 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 a civil parish and is united with the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water....
  
   
• Tate St Ives
  Tate St Ives
  Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists, including work of the St Ives School. The three storey building, designed by architects Evans and Shalev, lies on the site of an old gas works, overlooking Porthmeor Beach. It was opened in...
  
  
• 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.Covering , the estate was purchased by Cornwall County Council in 1983...
  
  
• The Towans
  The Towans
  The word 'towan' means 'sand dune' in Kernewek, the Cornish language and occurs in numerous placenames . However, The Towans usually refers to the three-mile stretch of coastal dunes which extends north east from the estuary of the River Hayle to Gwithian beach with a mid-point near Upton...
  
  
• Tintagel Castle
  Tintagel Castle
  Tintagel Castle is a medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island, adjacent to the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The site was possibly occupied in the Romano-British period, due to an array of artefacts dating to this period which have been found on the...
  
  
• Trebah
  Trebah
  Trebah is a sub-tropical garden situated in Cornwall near Glendurgan Garden and above the Helford River .-History of Trebah:In 1831 Trebah was acquired by the Fox family who built Glendurgan Garden. Trebah was first laid out as a pleasure garden by Charles Fox, a Quaker polymath of enormous...
  
  
• Tregiffian Burial Chamber
  Tregiffian Burial Chamber
  The Tregiffian Burial Chamber is a Neolithic or early Bronze age chambered tomb. An entrance passage, lined with stone slabs, leads into a central chamber. It is located near Lamorna in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a rare form of a passage grave, known as an Entrance grave...
  
  
• 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 Boscawen family, and the seat of Lord Falmouth. The original house was built in Plantagenet times and sacked in the English...
  
  
• Trelissick Garden
  Trelissick Garden
  Trelissick Garden is a garden in the ownership of the National Trust and situated in Feock, Cornwall, near Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom.-The Trust:...
  
   
• Trengwainton Garden
  Trengwainton Garden
  Trengwainton is a garden situated in Madron, near Penzance, Cornwall, UK, which has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1961. The garden is noted for its collection of exotic trees and shrubs and offers views over Mount's Bay and The Lizard....
  
  
• Trerice
  Trerice
  Trerice is an Elizabethan manor house, located in Kestle Mill near Newquay, Cornwall, UK . The building features a main south-east facing range of 'E'-plan abutting a south-west range containing two earlier phases. Phase I consisted of a tower house with low north-west block...
  
  
• Trethevy Quoit
  Trethevy Quoit
  Trethevy Quoit is a well-preserved megalithic tomb located near St Cleer, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is known locally as "the giant's house". Standing high, it consists of five standing stones capped by a large slab.-Location:...
  
  
• 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 much of the nineteenth century, and is one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom...
  
  

Police and the military

• Cornwall Police Force
  Devon and Cornwall Constabulary
  Devon and Cornwall Police, formerly Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, is the territorial police force responsible for policing the counties 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 Sea King and Merlin 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 attempt on Britain, by a French force in 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars.*HMS...
  
  
• 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 anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named after St Austell Bay on the south coast of Cornwall. In commission from 1945 until 1956, she served in the Mediterranean Fleet and on the America and West Indies Squadron.-Construction:The ship was originally ordered...
  
  
• Cornwall Air Ambulance
  Cornwall Air Ambulance
  The Cornwall Air Ambulance is a dedicated helicopter emergency service for the English county of Cornwall. The helicopter flies approximately 1000 missions per annum, having flown over 20,000 missions. When introduced on 1 April 1987, Cornwall's Air ambulance became the first dedicated Helicopter...
  
  

• 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, operated by the British signals intelligence service on the site of the former World War II...
  
  
• RNAS Predannack
  Predannack Airfield
  Predannack Airfield is situated near Mullion on Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula in the United Kingdom. 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.-World War II:...
  
  
• 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 Coastal Command's less-used airfields.-History:...
  
  
• 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 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 St Mawgan and 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 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-admirals of the Isles of Scilly...
  
  

Politics

• Mebyon Kernow
  Mebyon Kernow
  Mebyon Kernow is a left-of-centre political party in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It primarily campaigns for devolution to Cornwall in the form of a Cornish Assembly, as well as social democracy and environmental protection.MK was formed as a pressure group in 1951, and contained as members activists...
  
  
• Kernow X
• Constitutional status of Cornwall
  Constitutional status of Cornwall
  Cornwall is currently administered as a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England.However, a number of organisations and individuals question the constitutional basis for the administration of Cornwall as part of England, arguing that the Duchy Charters of 1337 place the governance of...
  
  
• Cornish Assembly
  Cornish Assembly
  The Cornish Assembly is a proposed devolved regional assembly for Cornwall in the United Kingdom along the lines of the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly.-Overview:...
  
  
• Celtic League (political organisation)
  Celtic League (political organisation)
  The Celtic League is a non-governmental organisation that promotes self-determination and Celtic identity and culture in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man, known as the Celtic nations. It places particular emphasis on the indigenous Celtic languages...
  
  
• Cornish self-government movement
  Cornish self-government movement
  Cornish nationalism is an umbrella term that refers to a cultural, political and social movement based in Cornwall, the most southwestern part of the island of Great Britain, which has for centuries been administered as part of England, within the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Cornish Nationalist Party
  Cornish Nationalist Party
  The Cornish Nationalist Party , , is an unregistered political party in the United Kingdom, led by Dr James Whetter and campaigning for independence for Cornwall. It was formed by people who left Mebyon Kernow on 28 May 1975. The party ceased to exist in 2005, although it claimed to have reformed...
  
  
• Cornish people
  Cornish people
  The Cornish are a people associated with Cornwall, a county and Duchy in the south-west of the United Kingdom that is seen in some respects as distinct from England, having more in common with the other Celtic parts of the United Kingdom such as Wales, as well as with other Celtic nations in Europe...
  
  
• Cornwall Council election, 2009
  Cornwall Council election, 2009
  Elections to Cornwall Council, the Unitary Authority for Cornwall took place on 4 June 2009, the same day as other United Kingdom local elections, 2009....
  
  
• Cornish Stannary Parliament
  Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament
  The Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament , is a pressure group which claims to be a revival of the historic Cornish Stannary Parliament last held in 1753...
  
  
• Cornish Solidarity
  Cornish Solidarity
  Cornish Solidarity is a Cornish organisation founded in February 1998. It was founded by the then President of Redruth and District Chamber of Commerce, Mr Greg Woods, who having been disgusted at the press being notified of the demise of South Crofty Mine before the staff and workers of the mine,...
  
  
• Cornwall 2000
  Cornwall 2000
  Cornwall 2000 is a Cornish nationalist pressure group based in Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The group was formed by John Angarrack, who has authored revisionist books on the history of Cornwall and has participated in the Cornish nationalist scene. The organisation is headquartered at John...
  
  
• List of not fully sovereign nations
• Cornish rotten boroughs
  Cornish rotten boroughs
  The Cornish rotten boroughs were one of the most striking anomalies of the Unreformed House of Commons in the Parliament that ruled Britain before the Reform Act of 1832...
  
  
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall
• Census 2001 Ethnic Codes
• Demographics of England from the 2001 United Kingdom census
  Demographics of England from the 2001 United Kingdom census
  The demography of England has since 1801 been measured by the decennial national census, and is marked by centuries of population growth and urbanisation...
  
  
• Politics of England
  Politics of England
  The Politics of England forms the major part of the wider politics of the United Kingdom, with England being more populus than all the other countries of the United Kingdom put together. As England is also the largest in terms of area and GDP, its relationship to the UK is somewhat different from...
  
  
• Cornwall Council
• Devolved English parliament
  Devolved English parliament
  A devolved English parliament or assembly, 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 a growing issue in the politics of...
  
  
• Cornish conspiracy theory
• Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
  Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
  The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities was signed on February 1995 by 22 member States of the Council of Europe ....
  
  
• 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
  The foreign-born population of the United Kingdom includes immigrants from a wide range of countries who are resident in the United Kingdom. In the period January 2010 to December 2010, there were 19 foreign-born groups that consisted of at least 100,000 individuals residing in the UK The...
  
  
• South West Regional Assembly
  South West Regional Assembly
  The South West Regional Assembly was the regional assembly for the South West region of England, established in 1999.It was wound up in December 2008, and its functions taken on by the Strategic Leaders' Board, the executive arm of the newly established South West Councils. Cllr. Angus Campbell,...
  
  
• English nationalism
  English nationalism
  English nationalism refers to a nationalist outlook or political stance applied to England. In a general sense, it comprises political and social movements and sentiment inspired by a love for English culture, language and history, and a sense of pride in England and the English people...
  
   in Cornwall
• High Sheriff of Cornwall
  High Sheriff of Cornwall
  High Sheriffs of Cornwall: a chronological list:Note: The right to choose High Sheriffs each year is vested in the Duchy of Cornwall, rather than the Privy Council, chaired by the Sovereign, which chooses the Sheriffs of all other English counties, other than those in the Duchy of...
  
  
• Andrew George MP for St. Ives
• Julia Goldsworthy
  Julia Goldsworthy
  Julia Anne Goldsworthy is a Special Adviser in HM Treasury to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander. She was the Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne from 2005 until she lost her seat by 66 votes to George Eustice, the Conservative candidate in the 2010 general election in...
  
   MP for Falmouth & Camborne
• Matthew Taylor MP for Truro and St Austell
• Dan Rogerson
  Dan Rogerson
  Daniel John Rogerson is a Cornish Liberal Democrat politician. He has been the Member of Parliament for North Cornwall since the 2005 General election.-Early life:...
  
   MP for Cornwall North
• Colin Breed
  Colin Breed
  Colin Edward Breed is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for South East Cornwall from 1997 until he stood down at the 2010 general election.-Early life:...
  
   MP for South East Cornwall
• Mark Prisk
  Mark Prisk
  Michael Mark Prisk is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament for Hertford and Stortford, and was appointed Minister of State for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in May 2010...
  
   Shadow Minister for Cornwall
• Shadow Minister for Cornwall
• Rhisiart Tal-e-bot Celtic league
• Local government districts in Cornwall
• Penwith
  Penwith
  Penwith was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council was based in Penzance. The district covered all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which included an area of land to the east that fell outside the...
  
  
• Kerrier
  Kerrier
  Kerrier was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was the most southerly district in the United Kingdom, other than the Isles of Scilly. Its council was based in Camborne ....
  
  
• Carrick, Cornwall
  Carrick, Cornwall
  Carrick was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its council was based in Truro. The main centres of population, industry and commerce were the city of Truro and the towns of Falmouth/Penryn....
  
  
• Restormel
  Restormel
  Restormel was a borough of Cornwall, United Kingdom, one of the six administrative divisions that made up the county. Its council was based in St Austell . Other towns included Newquay....
  
  
• North Cornwall
  North Cornwall
  North Cornwall was the largest of the six local government districts of Cornwall, United Kingdom. Its council was based in Wadebridge . Other towns in the district included Bude, Bodmin, Launceston, Padstow, and Camelford....
  
  
• Caradon
  Caradon
  Caradon was a local government district in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It contained five towns: Callington, Liskeard, Looe, Saltash and Torpoint, and over 80 villages and hamlets within 41 civil parishes...
  
  
• Cornwall and Plymouth (European Parliament constituency)
  Cornwall and Plymouth (European Parliament constituency)
  Cornwall and Plymouth was a European Parliament constituency covering Cornwall and Plymouth in England.Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales...
  
  
• Cornwall and West Plymouth (European Parliament constituency)
  Cornwall and West Plymouth (European Parliament constituency)
  Cornwall and West Plymouth was a European Parliament constituency covering Cornwall and Plymouth in England. With Somerset and North Devon, it was one of the first two seats to elect a Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament....
  
  
• South West England (European Parliament constituency)
  South West England (European Parliament constituency)
  South West England is a constituency of the European Parliament. For 2009 it elects 6 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation, reduced from 7 in 2004.-Boundaries:...
  
  

• Parliamentary representation from Cornwall
  Parliamentary representation from Cornwall
  The historic county of Cornwall in south-west England was represented in Parliament from the 13th century. This article provides a list of constituencies constituting the Parliamentary representation from Cornwall....
  
  
• 2005 United Kingdom general election result in Cornwall
  2005 United Kingdom general election result in Cornwall
  The following are the 2005 United Kingdom general election result in Cornwall.-Overall results:-Seat by seat:-See also:*2001 results in Cornwall*2010 results in Cornwall*Constituencies in Cornwall-References:...
  
  
• St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)
  St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)
  St. Ives is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-History:...
  
  
• Falmouth and Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)
• Truro and St Austell (UK Parliament constituency)
  Truro and St Austell (UK Parliament constituency)
  Truro and St Austell was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...
  
  
• North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  North Cornwall is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :...
  
  
• South East Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
• Camborne and Redruth (UK Parliament constituency)
• St Austell and Newquay (UK Parliament constituency)
• Truro and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
• Truro (UK Parliament constituency)
• Bodmin (UK Parliament constituency)
  Bodmin (UK Parliament constituency)
  Bodmin was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Cornwall from 1295 until 1983. Initially, it was a parliamentary borough, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of England and later the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1868 general...
  
  
• Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency)
  Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency)
  Bossiney was a parliamentary constituency in Cornwall, one of a number of Cornish rotten boroughs, and returned two Members of Parliament to the British House of Commons from 1552 until 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...
  
  
• Callington (UK Parliament constituency)
  Callington (UK Parliament constituency)
  Callington was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1585 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Reform Act 1832.-History:...
  
  
• Camelford (UK Parliament constituency)
  Camelford (UK Parliament constituency)
  Camelford was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1552 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...
  
  
• Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  Cornwall is a former county constituency covering the county of Cornwall, in the South West of England. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of England then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832...
  
  
• East Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  East Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  East Cornwall was a county constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election.- Boundaries :...
  
  
• West Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  West Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  West Cornwall was a county constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election.- Boundaries :...
  
  
• East Looe (UK Parliament constituency)
  East Looe (UK Parliament constituency)
  East Looe was a parliamentary borough represented in the House of Commons of England from 1571 to 1707, in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1797 to 1800, and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 until its abolition in 1832. It elected two Members of Parliament ...
  
  
• Fowey (UK Parliament constituency)
  Fowey (UK Parliament constituency)
  Fowey was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1571 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...
  
  
• Grampound (UK Parliament constituency)
  Grampound (UK Parliament constituency)
  Grampound in Cornwall, was a borough constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1821. It was represented by two Members of Parliament.-History:Grampound's...
  
  
• Helston (UK Parliament constituency)
  Helston (UK Parliament constituency)
  Helston, sometimes known as Helleston, was a parliamentary borough centred on the small town of Helston in Cornwall.Using the bloc vote system of election, it returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and...
  
  
• Launceston (UK Parliament constituency)
  Launceston (UK Parliament constituency)
  Launceston, also known at some periods as Dunheved, was a parliamentary constituency in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the British House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and one member from 1832 until 1918...
  
  
• Liskeard (UK Parliament constituency)
  Liskeard (UK Parliament constituency)
  Liskeard was a parliamentary borough in Cornwall, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.- History :...
  
  
• Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)
  Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)
  Lostwithiel was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1304 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...
  
  
• Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)
  Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)
  Mitchell, or St Michael was a rotten borough consisting of the town of Mitchell, Cornwall. From the first Parliament of Edward VI, in 1547, it elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons.-History:The borough encompassed parts of two parishes, Newlyn East and St Enoder...
  
  
• Newport (Cornwall) (UK Parliament constituency)
  Newport (Cornwall) (UK Parliament constituency)
  Newport was a rotten borough situated in Cornwall. It is now within the town of Launceston, which was itself also a parliamentary borough at the same period...
  
  
• Penryn (UK Parliament constituency)
  Penryn (UK Parliament constituency)
  Penryn was a parliamentary borough in Cornwall, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of England from 1553 until 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to until 1832...
  
  
• Penryn and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
  Penryn and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
  Penryn and Falmouth was the name of a constituency in Cornwall represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1950. From 1832 to 1885 it was a parliamentary borough returning two Members of Parliament , elected by the bloc vote system...
  
  
• St Austell (UK Parliament constituency)
  St Austell (UK Parliament constituency)
  St Austell was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of St Austell in Cornwall. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
  
  
• St Germans (UK Parliament constituency)
  St Germans (UK Parliament constituency)
  St Germans was a rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1562 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...
  
  
• St Mawes (UK Parliament constituency)
  St Mawes (UK Parliament constituency)
  St Mawes was a rotten borough in Cornwall. It returned two Members of Parliament ) to the House of Commons of England from 1562 to 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until it was abolished by the Great Reform Act in...
  
  
• Saltash (UK Parliament constituency)
  Saltash (UK Parliament constituency)
  Saltash, sometimes called Essa, was a "rotten borough" in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later British Parliament from 1552 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...
  
  
• Tregony (UK Parliament constituency)
  Tregony (UK Parliament constituency)
  Tregony was a rotten borough in Cornwall which was represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, and returned two Members of Parliament to the English and later British Parliament continuously from 1562 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act....
  
  
• West Looe (UK Parliament constituency)
  West Looe (UK Parliament constituency)
  West Looe was a rotten borough represented in the House of Commons of England from 1535 to 1707, in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1797 to 1800, and in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election...
  
  
• Cornwall local elections
  Cornwall local elections
  Cornwall Council in England, UK, is elected every four years. From 1973 to 2005 elections were for Cornwall County Council, with the first election for the new unitary Cornwall Council held in June 2009...
  
  
• Caradon local elections
  Caradon local elections
  The former Caradon District Council was elected every four years. On 1st April 2009 Cornwall Council became a unitary authority and the Cornish district councils were abolished.-Political control:Independent 1973 - 1995No overall control 1995 - 2007...
  
  
• Carrick local elections
  Carrick local elections
  The former District Council of Carrick, Cornwall, United Kingdom, was elected every four years. On 1st April 2009 Cornwall Council became a unitary authority and the Cornish district councils were abolished.-Political control:Independent 1973 - 1979...
  
  
• Kerrier local elections
  Kerrier local elections
  The former Kerrier District Council was elected every four years. On 1st April 2009 Cornwall Council became a unitary authority and the Cornish district councils were abolished.-Political control:Independent 1973 - 1979No overall control 1979 - 2009...
  
  
• North Cornwall local elections
  North Cornwall local elections
  The former North Cornwall District Council was elected every four years. On 1st April 2009 Cornwall Council became a unitary authority and the Cornish district councils were abolished.-Political control:Independent 1973 - 2007No overall control 2007 - 2009...
  
  
• Penwith local elections
  Penwith local elections
  One third of the former Penwith District Council was elected each year, followed by one year without election. On 1st April 2009 Cornwall Council became a unitary authority and the Cornish district councils were abolished.-Political control:Independent 1973 - 1986...
  
  
• Restormel local elections
  Restormel local elections
  One third of the former Restormel Council in Cornwall, England was elected each year, followed by one year when there is an election to Cornwall County Council...
  
  
• Penwith Council election, 2007
  Penwith Council election, 2007
  Elections to Penwith Council were held on 3 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.After the election, the composition of the council was*Conservative 17*Liberal Democrat 12*Independent 5*Labour 1...
  
  
• Penwith Council election, 2004
  Penwith Council election, 2004
  Elections to Penwith Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003 increasing the number of seats by one...
  
  
• Restormel Council election, 2003
• Truro by-election, 1987
  Truro by-election, 1987
  The Truro by-election, 1987, was caused by the death of David Penhaligon, the Liberal Member of Parliament for Truro on 22 December 1986 in a car crash near the city. The election was held on 12 March 1987...
  
  

Religion

• Bishop of Truro
  Bishop of Truro
  The Bishop of Truro is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Truro in the Province of Canterbury.The present diocese covers the county of Cornwall and it is one of the most recently created dioceses of the Church of England...
  
  
• Celtic Christianity
  Celtic Christianity
  Celtic Christianity or Insular Christianity refers broadly to certain features of Christianity that were common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages...
  
  
• Christianity in Cornwall
  Christianity in Cornwall
  Christianity in Cornwall began in the 4th or 5th century AD when Western Christianity was introduced into Cornwall along with the rest of Roman Britain. Over time it became the official religion, superseding previous Celtic and Roman practice. Early Christianity in Cornwall was spread largely by...
  
  
• Cornish saints
• Diocese of Exeter
  Diocese of Exeter
  The Diocese of Exeter is a Church of England diocese covering the county of Devon. It is one of the largest dioceses in England. The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter is the seat of the diocesan bishop, the Right Reverend Michael Langrish, Bishop of Exeter. It is part of the Province of...
  
  
• Diocese of Truro
  Diocese of Truro
  The Diocese of Truro is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury.-Geography and history:The diocese's area is that of the county of Cornwall including the Isles of Scilly. It was formed on 15 December 1876 from the Archdeaconry of Cornwall in the Diocese of Exeter, it is thus one...
  
  
• Fry an Spyrys
  Fry an Spyrys
  Fry an Spyrys is a group based in Cornwall, UK, who are campaigning for the disestablishment of the Church of England there...
  
  
• List of Cornish saints
• List of notable Cornish Christians
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth
• 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 much of the nineteenth century, and is one of only three cathedrals in the United Kingdom...
  
  

Sport

• Sport in Cornwall
  Sport in Cornwall
  Sport in Cornwall includes two sports not found elsewhere in the world, except in areas influenced by Cornish culture i.e. the Cornish forms of wrestling and hurling...
  
  
• Cornish Wrestling
  Cornish wrestling
  Cornish wrestling is a form of wrestling which has been established in Cornwall, an area of southwest Britain for several centuries. The referee is known as a 'stickler', and it is claimed that the popular meaning of the word as a 'pedant' originates from this usage...
  
  
• Cornish Hurling
  Cornish Hurling
  Cornish Hurling or Hurling the Silver Ball , is an outdoor team game of Celtic origin played only in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is played with a small silver ball...
  
  
• Rugby in Cornwall
  • Cornish Pirates
    Cornish Pirates
    The Cornish Pirates are an English professional rugby union team who play in the Championship, the second level of the English rugby union pyramid, and are the premier Cornish rugby club. Formerly known as Penzance & Newlyn Pirates, the Cornish Pirates play their home games and train at their...
    
    
  • Camborne RFC
    Camborne RFC
    Camborne RFC were established in 1878, and are one of the most famous rugby union clubs in Cornwall. They currently play in the Western Counties West division and their club colours are Cherry and White...
    
    
  • Falmouth RFC
    Falmouth RFC
    Falmouth RFC is a rugby union club based in the town of Falmouth, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The club plays at the Recreation Ground.Founded in 1873, Falmouth have been moderately successful, producing two players to have been capped by the England national rugby union team: E.J...
    
    
  • Helston RFC
    Helston RFC
    Helston RFC is a rugby union club in Cornwall which has been in existence since 1965. They currently play in Tribute Cornwall 1, following promotion from Cornwall 2 in 2005-06....
    
    
  • Launceston RUFC
    Launceston RUFC
    Launceston Rugby Club are a Cornish rugby club who play in National League 2 South of the English rugby union leagues.-History:The club was founded in 1948 after an inaugural meeting chaired by the then Headmaster of Launceston College, Mr Spencer Toy with Gordon Reeve, Eric Smith and Arthur...
    
    
  • Mounts Bay RFC
  • Redruth R.F.C.
    Redruth R.F.C.
    Redruth RFC is a Rugby union team from Cornwall.- History:Redruth RFC was founded in 1875 by Henry Grylls and W.H. Willimot. By the 1900s, the club was the most successful in Cornwall, a position they were to hold for much of the twentieth century. In 1908, the club defeated Durham to win the...
    
    
  • Wadebridge Camels
    Wadebridge Camels
    Wadebridge Camels RFC is a rugby union club in Wadebridge, Cornwall who have been in existence since 1955. They currently play in the Tribute South West 1 West league having won promotion from the Tribute Western Counties West division by beating Tribute Western Counties North runners up Thornbury...
    
    
• Cornwall Combination
  Cornwall Combination
  The Cornwall Combination League is a football competition based in the Western half of Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom, formed in 1959....
  
  
• Cornish pilot gig
  Cornish pilot gig
  The Cornish pilot gig is a six-oared rowing boat, built of Cornish narrow leaf elm, long with a beam of four feet ten inches.It is recognised as one of the first shore-based lifeboats that went to vessels in distress, with recorded rescues going back as far as the late 17th century.The original...
  
  
• Surfers Against Sewage
  Surfers against Sewage
  Surfers Against Sewage is a campaign for clean, safe recreational water free from sewage effluents, toxic chemicals, nuclear waste and marine litter. SAS also campaigns to protect surf spots from environmental damage, negative impacts on wave quality and to safeguard wave riders right of access....
  
  
• Royal Fowey Yacht Club
  Royal Fowey Yacht Club
  The Royal Fowey Yacht Club is located in a waterfront setting at Fowey, on the south coast of Cornwall one of the UK's most secure harbours.Its antecedents can be traced back to 1880; its third Honorary Secretary, from 1893, was Arthur Quiller-Couch, who became Sir Arthur. The minutes and...
  
  
• Quay Sailing Club
  Quay Sailing Club
  Quay Sailing Club is a sailing club in the village of St Germans, Cornwall. The Club has been established since the early seventies and is one of many clubs and organisations operating in the village...
  
  
• Trelawny Pitbulls
  Trelawny Pitbulls
  The Trelawny Pitbulls were the Conference League team of the Trelawny Tigers speedway team.The team was in operation for one season in 2003 until the Trelawny Tigers promotion closed. The team entered the Conference Trophy....
  
  
• Trelawny Tigers
  Trelawny Tigers
  Trelawny Tigers operated as a British Premier League Speedway team during the 2001-2003 seasons at the Clay Country Moto Parc. The track, 230m in length, was unique in its setting being situated in a disused china clay pit near St Austell, Cornwall...
  
  

• Cornwall County Cricket Club
  Cornwall County Cricket Club
  Cornwall County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Cornwall and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
  
  
• Falmouth Town F.C.
• Frederick Stanley Jackson
  Frederick Stanley Jackson
  Frederick Stanley Jackson was a rugby footballer of the early 1900s who represented the Anglo/Welsh British Lions and the New Zealand Kiwis.-Early years:Jackson was possibly born in Camborne and educated at the Camborne School of Mines...
  
  
• Goonhavern F.C.
• Launceston F.C.
  Launceston F.C.
  Launceston F.C. are a football club based in Launceston, Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.They joined the South Western League in 1958, left in 1961, rejoined for another four-season spell in 1966, and again in 1978 - this time they retained membership until 2007 when they joined the newly...
  
  
• Liskeard Athletic F.C.
  Liskeard Athletic F.C.
  Liskeard Athletic Football Club is an English association football club based in Liskeard, Cornwall. Founded in 1946, they joined the South Western League in 1966, which they won twice. The club elected to join the Western League in 1979, and won promotion from the First Division a year later...
  
  
• Millbrook F.C.
  Millbrook F.C.
  Millbrook A.F.C. are a football club that represent the village of Millbrook in Cornwall, England, UK.-History:The club was established in 1896 and joined the South Western League in 1980 after competing at a local level for nearly a century...
  
  
• Newquay F.C.
  Newquay F.C.
  Newquay F.C. is a football club based in Newquay, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, nicknamed "The Peppermints". They were the founding members of the South Western League in 1951, and remained there until 2007 when they joined the South West Peninsula League Division One West...
  
  
• Penryn Athletic F.C.
  Penryn Athletic F.C.
  Penryn Athletic F.C. are a football club based in Penryn, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. They play in the South West Peninsula League Division One West, and stage their home games at the 1,500 capacity Kernick Road ground. They also run teams in the Cornwall Combination and Trelawny League...
  
  
• Penzance F.C.
  Penzance F.C.
  Penzance A.F.C. is a football club based in Penzance, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. They were established in 1888 and were founding members of the South Western League in 1951, and maintained membership of that league until 2007 when they joined the newly formed South West Peninsula League...
  
  
• Porthleven F.C.
  Porthleven F.C.
  Porthleven Football Club is a Cornish football club based in Porthleven in Cornwall. Founded in 1896, the club competed in the South Western League from 1967 to 1977 and again from 1989 until the dissoultion of the league in 2007...
  
  
• St Austell F.C.
  St Austell F.C.
  St Austell F.C. is a football club based in St Austell, Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom.They were founding members of the South Western League in 1951, and remained in that competition until 2007 when they joined the newly formed South West Peninsula League Division One West...
  
  
• Saltash United F.C.
  Saltash United F.C.
  Saltash United Football Club is a football club based in Saltash, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. They were founding members of the South Western League in 1951 and won the title two times in their history...
  
  
• Torpoint Athletic F.C.
  Torpoint Athletic F.C.
  Torpoint Athletic F.C. are a football club based in Torpoint, Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.-History:They joined the South Western League in 1962, and retained that membership until 2007, when they joined the new South West Peninsula League Premier Division...
  
  
• Truro City F.C.
  Truro City F.C.
  Truro City F.C. are an English professional football club based in Truro, Cornwall. They currently play in the Conference South following five promotions in six seasons. They were founding members of the South Western League in 1951 and won the title five times in their history...
  
  
• Wadebridge Town F.C.
  Wadebridge Town F.C.
  Wadebridge Town F.C. is a football club based in Wadebridge, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom-History:They were established in 1894 and joined the South Western League for its second season in 1952 and remained in membership until 2007 when they joined the South West Peninsula League Division One...
  
  

Transport

Railways (present day)

• Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall
  Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall
  The Atlantic Coast Line is a community railway line in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The line runs from the English Channel at Par, to the Atlantic Ocean at Newquay.-Route:The Atlantic Coast Line starts from Par station, in the village and port of Par...
  
  
• Cornish Main Line
  Cornish Main Line
  The Cornish Main Line is a railway line in the United Kingdom, which forms the backbone for rail services in Cornwall, as well as providing a direct line to London.- History :...
  
  
• Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership
  Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership
  The Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership is the largest Community Rail Partnership in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1991 to promote the use of, and improvements to, rural railways in Devon and Cornwall, and also to promote the places served in order to improve the local economy.The...
  
  
• Looe Valley Line
  Looe Valley Line
  The Looe Valley Line is an community railway from Liskeard to Looe in Cornwall, United Kingdom, that follows the valley of the East Looe River for much of its course...
  
  
• Maritime Line
  Maritime Line
  The Maritime Line is a railway line that runs in the valley of the River Fal from Truro to Falmouth on the south coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom.-History:...
  
  
• Railway stations in Cornwall
• St Ives Bay Line
  St Ives Bay Line
  The St Ives Bay Line is a railway line from to in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It was opened in 1877, the last new broad gauge passenger railway to be constructed in the country...
  
  
• Tamar Valley Line
  Tamar Valley Line
  The Tamar Valley Line is a railway line from Devonport in Plymouth Devon, to Gunnislake in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The line follows the River Tamar for much of its route.-History:...
  
  

Railways (heritage & history)

• Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway
  Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway
  The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was a railway line opened in 1834 in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It linked the important town of Bodmin with the harbour at Wadebridge and also quarries at places such as Wenford...
  
  
• Cornish Riviera Express
  Cornish Riviera Express
  The Cornish Riviera Express is a British express passenger train that has run between London and Penzance in Cornwall since 1904. Introduced by the Great Western Railway, the name Cornish Riviera Express has been applied to the late morning express train from London Paddington station to Penzance...
  
  
• Cornwall Minerals Railway
  Cornwall Minerals Railway
  The Cornwall Minerals Railway operated a network of railway lines in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Based at St Blazey, its network stretched from Fowey to Newquay and lasted as an independent company from 1874 to 1896, after which it became a part of the Great Western Railway.-Authorisation:The...
  
  
• Cornwall Railway
  Cornwall Railway
  The Cornwall Railway was a broad gauge railway from Plymouth in Devon to Falmouth in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The section from Plymouth to Truro opened in 1859, the extension to Falmouth in 1863...
  
  
• GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro
  GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro
  Number 3440 City Of Truro is a Great Western Railway 3700 Class 4-4-0 locomotive, designed by George Jackson Churchward and built at the GWR Swindon Works in 1903. . It is one of the contenders for the first steam locomotive to travel in excess of...
  
  
• Disused railway stations (Bodmin to Wadebridge line)
  Disused railway stations (Bodmin to Wadebridge line)
  There are eight disused railway stations between Wadebridge and Bodmin North on the former Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, with ten other closed sidings on the branches to Ruthern Bridge and Wenfordbridge...
  
  
• Disused railway stations (Plymouth to Penzance Line)
  Disused railway stations (Plymouth to Penzance Line)
  There are seventeen disused railway stations between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The remains of nine of these can be seen from passing trains...
  
  
• Helston Railway Preservation Company
  Helston Railway Preservation Company
  The Helston Railway Preservation Company is a heritage railway that aims to rebuild the Helston branch line that linked Gwinear Road on the Cornish Main Line to Helston, Cornwall, England.- Overview :...
  
  
• Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway
  Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway
  The Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway opened in 1869 as a broad gauge railway and links the port of Fowey in Cornwall with the Cornish Main Line at Lostwithiel...
  
  
• Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway
  Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway
  The Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway was a broad gauge railway intended to link the Cornwall Railway with the horse-worked Newquay Railway. It opened a short section to Nanpean in 1869, the remainder being built by the Cornwall Minerals Railway who took over the company in 1874...
  
  
• Truro and Newquay Railway
• Treffry Viaduct
  Treffry Viaduct
  The Treffry Viaduct is a historic dual-purpose railway viaduct and aqueduct, located close to the village of Luxulyan, Cornwall, England in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• West Cornwall Railway
  West Cornwall Railway
  The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, formed in 1846 to operate the existing Hayle Railway between Hayle and Redruth and extend the railway to Penzance and Truro....
  
  

Roads

• A374 road
  A374 road
  The A374 is a main road in the United Kingdom, one of six A-roads making the border crossing between Devon and Cornwall. It is the most southerly of the A37x group of roads, starting and ending its journey with the A38 trunk road, from the outskirts of Plymouth in Devon to the Trerulefoot...
  
  
• A38 road
  A38 road
  The A38, part of which is also known as the Devon Expressway, is a major A-class trunk road in England.The road runs from Bodmin in Cornwall to Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. It is long, making it one of the longest A-roads in England. It was formerly known as the Leeds — Exeter Trunk Road,...
  
  
• A39 road
  A39 road
  The A39 is an A road in south west England. It runs south-west from Bath in Somerset through Wells, Glastonbury, Street and Bridgwater. It then follows the north coast of Somerset and Devon through Williton, Minehead, Porlock, Lynmouth, Barnstaple, Bideford, Stratton, Camelford, Wadebridge and St...
  
   (Atlantic Highway)

Buses and coaches

• Cornwall bus routes
• First Devon and Cornwall
• Truronian
  Truronian
  Truronian was a bus service and coaching holiday operator primarily located in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, In April 2008 Truronian was taken over by First Group PLC. Truronian local bus service has now merged with First Devon and Cornwall's bus operations. Truronian still operates the...
  
  
• Western Greyhound
  Western Greyhound
  Western Greyhound is a bus operator based in Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It operates many services throughout the county and also into Devon...
  
  

Ships and boats

• Clio (barque)
  Clio (barque)
  The Clio was a three-masted barque built of black birch, pine and oak at Granville, Nova Scotia, .She was registered at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on completion. For many years she crossed back and forth over the Atlantic, bringing timber from Quebec, Canada which was then sailed to...
  
  
• Falmouth Lifeboat Station
  Falmouth Lifeboat Station
  Falmouth Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution search and rescue operations at Falmouth, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The first lifeboat was stationed in the town in 1867 and the present station was opened in 1993...
  
  
• Falmouth Quay Punt
  Falmouth Quay Punt
  The Falmouth Quay Punt evolved in the UK port of Falmouth, Cornwall around the beginning of the 20th century. Falmouth, with a good deep water harbour situated near the Western entrance to the English Channel, was a popular port for large merchant sailing ships to call "for orders"...
  
  
• Scillonian
  Scillonian
  The Isles of Scilly Steamship Company operates the principal shipping service from Penzance, in the English county of Cornwall, to the offshore Isles of Scilly. It provides a year-round cargo service together with a seasonal passenger service in summer...
  
  
• Spirit of Mystery
  Spirit of Mystery
  Spirit of Mystery is a replica of the Mount's Bay lugger Mystery which made a voyage to Australia and back in 1854/55. In 1854 a discussion in the Star Inn in Newlyn led seven fishermen to set sail in the hope of finding their fortunes...
  
  
• Torpoint Ferry
  Torpoint Ferry
  The Torpoint Ferry is a car and pedestrian chain ferry, connecting the A374 road which crosses the Hamoaze, a stretch of water at the mouth of the River Tamar, between Devonport in Plymouth and Torpoint in Cornwall...
  
  

Canals

• Bude Canal
  Bude Canal
  The Bude Canal was a canal built to serve the hilly hinterland in the Devon and Cornwall border territory in the United Kingdom, chiefly to bring lime-bearing sand for agricultural fertiliser. The Bude Canal system was one of the most unusual in Britain....
  
  
• Liskeard & Looe Union Canal
• Par Canal
• Parnall's Canal
  Parnall's Canal
  Parnall's Canal was a half mile long canal that was built in Cornwall in about 1720 near St Austell. It was closed due to a rock slide in about 1732. It was one of only five canals to be built in Cornwall, the others being the St. Columb Canal from Mawgan Porth to St. Columb, the Liskeard & Looe...
  
  
• St. Columb Canal
  St. Columb Canal
  St Columb Canal sometimes referred to as Edyvean's Canal, was first proposed by the Cornish engineer, John Edyvean in 1773. His idea was to run a canal from Mawgan Porth through parishes inland and to return to Newquay. Its purpose was to import sea-sand, seaweed and stone for manuring to improve...
  
  

Air travel

• Bodmin Airfield
  Bodmin Airfield
  Bodmin Airfield is located northeast of Bodmin, Cornwall, England, UK.Bodmin Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee . The aerodrome is not licensed for night use...
  
  
• British International Helicopters
  British International Helicopters
  British International Helicopter Services Limited is an airline based at Penzance heliport, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, with headquarters located at Sherborne, Dorset. It operates seasonal and year round domestic scheduled services to the Isles of Scilly. Its main base is Penzance...
  
  
• Isles of Scilly Skybus
  Isles of Scilly Skybus
  Isles of Scilly Skybus is a British airline which operates seasonal and year round domestic scheduled services to the Isles of Scilly from Land's End Airport and Newquay Airport in Cornwall, and from Exeter, Bristol and Southampton...
  
  
• Land's End Airport
  Land's End Airport
  Land's End Airport , situated in St Just, west of Penzance, in Cornwall, is the most south westerly airport of mainland Britain. The airport is managed by Westward Airways, and is home to Isles of Scilly Skybus and MSH Flight Training....
  
  
• Newquay Cornwall International Airport
  Newquay Cornwall International Airport
  -See also:*Newquay Cornwall Airport Fire and Rescue Service-External links:*...
  
  
• Penzance Heliport
  Penzance Heliport
  Penzance Heliport is located northeast of Penzance, Cornwall. The heliport has scheduled flights to the Isles of Scilly, which connect to the railway network at Penzance railway station by a special bus service...
  
  
• Perranporth Airfield
  Perranporth Airfield
  Perranporth Airfield airfield is located southwest of Perranporth and southwest of Newquay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a former World War II Royal Air Force fighter station....
  
  
• St. Mary's Airport
• Tresco Heliport
  Tresco Heliport
  Tresco Heliport is a heliport located on the island of Tresco, in the Isles of Scilly off the southwest coast of England, UK.- History :Tresco Heliport has a CAA Ordinary Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee...
  
  
• Truro Aerodrome
  Truro Aerodrome
  Truro Aerodrome is an unlicensed aerodrome located west northwest of Truro, Cornwall, England, UK....
  
  

Other

• Transport in the Isles of Scilly

External links

• Cornwall Council
• Wikitravel - Cornwall