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Zennor

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Zennor is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. [1]

64 relations: A30 road, B3306 road, Baptismal font, Bernard Montgomery, Boswednack, Brenda Wootton, Brittany, Charles Causley, Civil parish, Commando, Cornish language, Cornish literature, Cornwall, Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Cornwall Council, Cranken Rhyme, D. H. Lawrence, Defence of the Realm Act 1914, Dolmen, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Entrance grave, Frieda Lawrence, Gurnard's Head, Helen Dunmore, Imperial War Museum, Ingo (novel), Iron Age, John Davey (Cornish speaker), Kangaroo, Legion of Honour, Little, Brown and Company, Mermaid, Mermaid of Zennor, Mining in Cornwall and Devon, Norman architecture, Patrick Heron, Pennance, Penwith, Penzance, Pierdomenico Baccalario, Porthmeor, Promontory forts of Cornwall, Pub, Round barrow, Saint Senara, Special Operations Executive, Sperris Quoit, St Ives (UK Parliament constituency), St Ives, Cornwall, St Senara's Church, Zennor, ..., Sue Monk Kidd, Tate St Ives, The Mermaid Chair, Tinner's Arms, Treen (Zennor), Ulysses Moore, United Kingdom census, 2011, Vera Atkins, Vernon Watkins, Women in Love, World War II, Zennor Head, Zennor in Darkness, Zennor Quoit. Expand index (14 more) »

A30 road

The A30 is a major road in England, running WSW from London to Land's End.

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B3306 road

The B3306, also known as the West Cornwall Coast Road, is a major road of southwestern Cornwall.

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Baptismal font

A baptismal font is an article of church furniture used for baptism.

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and "The Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War.

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Boswednack

Boswednack is a hamlet in the parish of Zennor near the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Brenda Wootton

Brenda Wootton (née Ellery) (10 February 1928 – 11 March 1994) was a Cornish poet and folk singer and was seen as an ambassador for Cornish tradition and culture in all the Celtic nations and as far as Australia and Canada.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh, pronounced or; Gallo: Bertaèyn, pronounced) is a cultural region in the northwest of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Charles Causley

Charles Stanley Causley, CBE, FRSL (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Commando

A commando is a soldier or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force often specializing in amphibious landings, parachuting or abseiling.

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Cornish language

Cornish (Kernowek) is a revived language that became extinct as a first language in the late 18th century.

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Cornish literature

Cornish literature refers to written works in the Cornish language.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

The Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers in Cornwall, England, UK; that is, about 27% of the total area of the county.

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Cornwall Council

Cornwall Council (Konsel Kernow) is the unitary authority for the county of Cornwall in the United Kingdom, not including the Isles of Scilly, which has its own council.

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Cranken Rhyme

The "Cranken Rhyme" is a Cornish-language song known by farmer John Davey or Davy (1812–1891), who was one of the last people with some knowledge of the tongue.

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D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.

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Defence of the Realm Act 1914

The Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) was passed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 1914, four days after it entered World War I. It gave the government wide-ranging powers during the war period, such as the power to requisition buildings or land needed for the war effort, or to make regulations creating criminal offences.

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Dolmen

A dolmen is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more vertical megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".

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Ecclesiastical History of the English People

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by the Venerable Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between the pre-Schism Roman Rite and Celtic Christianity.

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Entrance grave

Entrance grave is a term given by archaeologists to a type of megalithic chamber tomb found in parts of Atlantic Europe, dating the early to middle Bronze Age.

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Frieda Lawrence

Frieda Lawrence (August 11, 1879 – August 11, 1956), born Frieda Freiin von Richthofen, was a German literary figure mainly known for her marriage to the British novelist D. H. Lawrence.

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Gurnard's Head

Gurnard's Head (Ynyal, meaning desolate one) is a prominent headland on the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, England, UK.

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Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.

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Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London.

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Ingo (novel)

Ingo is a children's novel by English writer Helen Dunmore, published in 2005 and the first of the Ingo pentalogy (followed by The Tide Knot, The Deep, The Crossing of Ingo and Chronicles of Ingo: Stormswept (2012).

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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John Davey (Cornish speaker)

John Davey or Davy (1812–1891) was a Cornish farmer who was one of the last people with some traditional knowledge of the Cornish language.

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Kangaroo

The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is an American publisher founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown, and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors.

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Mermaid

In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.

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Mermaid of Zennor

The Mermaid of Zennor (An Vorvoren a Senar) is a popular Cornish folk tale that was first recorded by the Cornish folklorist William Bottrell in 1873.

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Mining in Cornwall and Devon

Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the south west of England, began in the early Bronze Age, around 2150 BC, and ended (at least temporarily) with the closure of South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall in 1998.

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Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Patrick Heron

Patrick Heron CBE (30 January 1920 – 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall.

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Pennance

Pennance is a hamlet near Lanner in west Cornwall, England.

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Penwith

Penwith (Pennwydh) is an area of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, located on the peninsula of the same name.

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Penzance

Penzance (Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, in England, United Kingdom.

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Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario (born 6 March 1974) is an Italian author of young adult fiction, best known for his Ulysses Moore series.

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Porthmeor

Porthmeor consists of two farms, Higher and Lower Porthmeor, in the parish of Zennor in Cornwall, England.

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Promontory forts of Cornwall

Cornish promontory forts, commonly known in Cornwall as cliff castles, are coastal equivalents of the hill forts and Cornish "rounds" found on Cornish hilltops and slopes.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Round barrow

A round barrow is a type of tumulus and is one of the most common types of archaeological monuments.

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Saint Senara

Saint Senara is a legendary Cornish saint with links to the village of Zennor on the north coast of Cornwall, UK.

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Special Operations Executive

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British World War II organisation.

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Sperris Quoit

Sperris Quoit is a ruined megalithic burial chamber or dolmen, and one of a type of tomb unique to West Penwith, located on a moor around 365 metres northeast of Zennor Quoit, being roughly halfway between Zennor and Amalveor, Cornwall.

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St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)

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St Ives, Cornwall

St Ives (Porth Ia, meaning "St Ia's cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall.

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St Senara's Church, Zennor

St Senara's Church, or The Church of Saint Senara, in Zennor Churchtown, Cornwall, England, UK, is the parish church of the parish of Zennor.

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Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd (born August 12, 1948) is a writer from Sylvester, Georgia, best known for her 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees.

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Tate St Ives

Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area.

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The Mermaid Chair

The Mermaid Chair is a 2005 novel written by American novelist Sue Monk Kidd, which has also been adapted as a Lifetime movie.

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Tinner's Arms

The Tinner's Arms is a Grade II-listed traditional Cornish pub in Zennor, Cornwall.

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Treen (Zennor)

Treen (Tredhin) is a hamlet in the parish of Zennor, on the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Ulysses Moore

Ulysses Moore is a series of adventure books written by the Italian author Pierdomenico Baccalario.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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Vera Atkins

Vera May Atkins, CBE (16 June 1908 – 24 June 2000) was a British intelligence officer who worked in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War.

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Vernon Watkins

Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 – 8 October 1967) was a Welsh poet, translator and painter.

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Women in Love

Women in Love (1920) is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zennor Head

Zennor Head is a 750-metre (2,460 ft) long promontory on the Cornish coast of England, between Pendour Cove and Porthzennor Cove.

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Zennor in Darkness

Zennor in Darkness, was the debut novel from English author Helen Dunmore, published in 1993.

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Zennor Quoit

Zennor Quoit is a ruined megalithic burial chamber or dolmen, located on a moor about a mile (1.6 km) east of the village of Zennor, Cornwall, England, UK.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zennor

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