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Cornwall (/ˈkɔːrnwɔːl, -wəl/ ^ⓘ; Cornish: Kernow [ˈkɛrnɔʊ] or [ˈkɛrnɔ]) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is one of the Celtic nations, and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, Devon to the east, and the English Channel to the south.

The county is predominantly rural, with an area of 1,375 square miles (3,562 km²) and population of 568,210. After the Redruth-Camborne conurbation, the largest settlements are Falmouth, Penzance, Newquay, St Austell, and Truro. For local government purposes most of Cornwall is a unitary authority area, with the Isles of Scilly having its own unique local authority. The Cornish nationalist movement disputes the constitutional status of Cornwall and seeks greater autonomy within the United Kingdom.

Cornwall is the westernmost part of the South West Peninsula, and the southernmost county within the United Kingdom. Its coastline is characterised by steep cliffs and, to the south, several rias, including those at the mouths of the rivers Fal and Fowey. It includes the southernmost point on Great Britain, Lizard Point, and forms a large part of the Cornwall National Landscape. The national landscape also includes Bodmin Moor, an upland outcrop of the Cornubian batholith granite formation. The county contains many short rivers; the longest is the Tamar, which forms the border with Devon. (Full article...)

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Hurling (Cornish: Hurlian) is an outdoor team game played only in Cornwall, England, played with a small silver ball. While the sport shares its name with the Irish game of hurling, the two sports are completely different.

Once played widely in Cornwall, the game has similarities to other traditional football or inter parish 'mob' games played in various parts of Britain, but certain attributes make hurling unique to Cornwall. It is considered by many to be Cornwall's national game along with Cornish wrestling. An old saying in the Cornish language goes "hyrlîan yw gen gwaré nyi", which means "hurling is our sport".

Today the sport survives only in two communities: St Columb Major, where the traditional hurling matches are played on Shrove Tuesday and the second Saturday following, between the Townsmen and the Countrymen of the parish; and in St Ives, where a hurling game is played by children on Feast Monday. In addition, a version of hurling features in the beating of the bounds festivities at Bodmin roughly every five years. Although the custom attracts fewer spectators, the annual hurling matches at St Columb Major have similar status in the Cornish calendar to the 'Obby 'Oss festival at Padstow and the Furry Dance at Helston in that all three are unique customs that have survived unchanged and have taken place annually since before records began. (Full article...)

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Portrait by Thomas Phillips, 1821

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS, MRIA, FGS (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as for discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Davy also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry. Davy is also credited with discovering clathrate hydrates.

In 1799, he experimented with nitrous oxide and was astonished at how it made him laugh. He nicknamed it "laughing gas" and wrote about its potential as an anaesthetic to relieve pain during surgery.

Davy was a baronet, President of the Royal Society (PRS), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), a founder member and Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture "On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity" "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." (Full article...)

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Richard Trevithick William Bligh Richard Lemon Lander Mark of Cornwall Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall John Arnold (watchmaker) Cuthbert Mayne Daphne du Maurier Edward Boscawen

Did you know?

...that 300 years ago there was a Jacobite uprising in Cornwall?
...that the South American Monkey Puzzle tree (pictured) was introduced to Britain by the Cornishman William Lobb?
...that Great Britain's rugby union team at the 1908 Summer Olympics was represented by Cornwall?
...that the Cornish port of Newlyn was the last port of call in Britain before the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the New World onboard the Mayflower in 1620?
...that a mine known as "Wheal Wherry" in the village of Wherrytown was forced to close in 1798 when a ship collided with it?

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Polydore Vergil

The whole Countrie of Britain ...is divided into iiii partes; whereof the one is inhabited of Englishmen, the other of Scottes, the third of Wallshemen, the fowerthe of Cornishe people, which all differ emonge them selves, either in tongue, ...in manners, or ells in lawes and ordinaunces

— Polydore Vergil, Italian scholar writing in the Anglica Historia in 1535

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The Antenna One satellite dish (dubbed "Arthur") at the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, the largest satellite earth receiving station in the world with over 60 dishes in total. Arthur, built on the site in 1962 to link with Telstar, is 29.5 metres in diameter and weighs 1,100 tonnes. Dishes are named after characters in Arthurian legend.

General images

The following are images from various Cornwall-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Celebrating Saint Piran's Day (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 2Boscawen-Un stone circle looking north (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 3The cross on the grave of Charles Bowen Cooke, St Just in Roseland (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 4Wheal Owles, example of a historic Cornish tin mine (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 5Lime-washed and slate-hung domestic vernacular architecture of various periods, Polperro (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 6Penryn, Prayer Book Rebellion Memorial, near the site of Glasney College (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 7Bluebells on the Cornish coast (from Geography of Cornwall)
Image 8Bal maidens at work, showing traditional dress (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 9Flag of St Piran, used as a flag of Cornwall (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 10Remains of Tintagel Castle, according to legend the site of King Arthur's conception (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 11Cornwall seen from the International Space Station (from Geography of Cornwall)
Image 12The cross at the end of Higher Bore Street, Bodmin (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 13Entrance at Truro Cathedral has a welcome sign in several languages, including Cornish. (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 14A map of camps and earthworks in Cornwall (from History of Cornwall)
Image 15Lady of Cornwall and flower girls at the 2007 Gorseth (Penzance) (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 16Stanhope Forbes, A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach (1884-85); also showing traditional dress (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 17The font of St Nonna's church, Altarnun (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 18A Cornish pasty, known traditionally as an oggy, can be found all over the world. (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 19A map of inscription stones, with and without Ogham inscriptions. (from History of Cornwall)
Image 20Cornish wrestling (Omdowl Kernewek) (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 21The Roman milestone in St Materiana's Church, Tintagel (from History of Cornwall)
Image 22Cornish dancers (from Music of Cornwall)
Image 23The 9th-century Men Myghtern Doniert (King Doniert's Stone) commemorating the last independent King of Cornwall (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 24Atlas of Cornwall by Christopher Saxton from 1576 (from History of Cornwall)
Image 25Church of St Morwenna, Morwenstow (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 26Will of Alfred the Great, AD 873–888 (11th-century copy, British Library Stowe MS 944, ff. 29v–33r) (from History of Cornwall)
Image 27Low tide at Bedruthan Steps (from Geography of Cornwall)
Image 28Harlyn Bay (from Geography of Cornwall)
Image 29Millennium Cross, Landrake (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 30Cornwall's national tartan, bracca (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 31An aerial view of Carrick Roads (from Geography of Cornwall)
Image 32The view northwest from Carn Brea, Penwith (from Geography of Cornwall)
Image 33The War Memorial, in the churchyard, Constantine, Kerrier, carved from local stone by Elkana Symons (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 34Boscawen-Un stone circle looking north (from History of Cornwall)
Image 35St German's priory church, St Germans (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 36Three Holes Cross (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 37Rough seas off Trebarwith Strand on the north coast (from Geography of Cornwall)
Image 38Stargazy pie, with sardines looking skywards before it is baked in the oven
Image 39Lanner Band Room (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 40The Minack Theatre, carved from the cliffs (from Culture of Cornwall)
Image 41Land's End (from Geography of Cornwall)