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'Obby 'Oss festival
The Obby 'Oss festival is a folk custom that takes place each 1st of May in Padstow, a coastal town in North Cornwall.
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*Walhaz
*Walhaz is a reconstructed Proto-Germanic word meaning 'foreigner', or more specifically 'Roman', 'Romance-speaker' or '(romanized) Celt', and survives in the English words of 'Wales/Welsh' and 'Cornwall.' The term was used by the ancient Germanic peoples to describe inhabitants of the former Roman Empire, who were largely romanised and spoke Latin languages (cf.
A. L. Rowse
Alfred Leslie Rowse (4 December 1903 – 3 October 1997) was a British historian and writer, best known for his work on Elizabethan England and books relating to Cornwall.
A30 road
The A30 is a major road in England, running WSW from London to Land's End.
A38 road
The A38, parts of which are known as Devon Expressway, Bristol Road and Gloucester Road, is a major A-class trunk road in England.
A39 road
The A39 is an A road in south west England.
Adam Loveday
Adam Loveday is a novel by Kate Tremayne, and is the first in the Loveday series of books.
Alan Gibson
Norman Alan Stewart Gibson (28 May 1923 – 10 April 1997) was an English journalist, writer and radio broadcaster, best known for his work in connection with cricket, though he also sometimes covered football and rugby union.
Aldhelm
Aldhelm (Ealdhelm, Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis) (25 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century.
Ale
Ale is a type of beer, brewed using a warm fermentation method.
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Alex Parks
Alexandra Rebecca Parks (born 26 July 1984) is a retired English singer-songwriter.
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.
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Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899.
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Allan Octavian Hume
Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British India and founded the party Indian National Congress.
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
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Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
Annales Cambriae
The (Latin for Annals of Wales) is the title given to a complex of Latin chronicles compiled or derived from diverse sources at St David's in Dyfed, Wales.
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Antonia Barber
Antonia Barber (real name Barbara Anthony; 10 December 1932 – 4 April 2019) was an English writer of books for children and adults.
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Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, record producer, composer and DJ.
Archdeacon of Cornwall
The Archdeacon of Cornwall is a senior cleric in the Church of England Diocese of Truro.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (21 November 186312 May 1944) was a British writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Asturias
Asturias (Asturies) officially the Principality of Asturias, (Principado de Asturias; Principáu d'Asturies; Galician–Asturian: Principao d'Asturias) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
Atlantic Bronze Age
The Atlantic Bronze Age is a term that has never been formally defined.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Autonomy
In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
Æthelstan
Æthelstan or Athelstan (– 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939.
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor.
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Barnstaple
Barnstaple is a river-port town and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England.
Battle of Deorham
The Battle of Deorham (or Dyrham) is portrayed by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as an important military encounter between the West Saxons and the Britons in the West Country in 577.
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Battle of Hehil
The Battle of Hehil was a battle won by a force of Britons, probably against the Anglo-Saxons of Wessex around the year 720.
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Battle of Hingston Down
The Battle of Hingston Down took place in 838, probably at Hingston Down in Cornwall between a combined force of Cornish and Vikings on the one side, and West Saxons led by Ecgberht, King of Wessex on the other.
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Béroul
Béroul (or Beroul; Norman Berox) was a Norman or Breton poet of the mid-to-late 12th century.
BBC Radio Cornwall
BBC Radio Cornwall is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Cornwall.
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BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.
BBC Spotlight (BBC South West TV programme)
BBC Spotlight is the BBC's regional TV news programme for the South West of England, covering Cornwall, Devon, Isles of Scilly, southern and western Somerset, western Dorset and the Channel Islands.
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Beating the bounds
Beating the bounds or perambulating the bounds is an ancient custom still observed in parts of England, Wales, and the New England region of the United States, which involves swatting local landmarks with branches to maintain a shared mental map of parish boundaries, usually every seven years.
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Ben Nicholson
Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscapes, and still-life.
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Ben Salfield
Benjamin Dieter Salfield (born 11 December 1971) is an English lutenist, guitarist, composer, teacher, promoter and politician.
Bernard Leach
Bernard Howell Leach (5 January 1887 – 6 May 1979) was a British studio potter and art teacher.
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Biodiversity action plan
A biodiversity action plan (BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems.
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Bishop of Cornwall
The Bishop of Cornwall was the bishop of a diocese which existed between about 930 and 1050.
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Black British people
Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British people of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent.
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Bodmin
Bodmin (Bosvena) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Bodmin manumissions
The Bodmin manumissions are records included in a manuscript Gospel book, the Bodmin Gospels or St Petroc Gospels, British Library, Add MS 9381.
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Bodmin Moor
Bodmin Moor (Cornish Standard Written Form) is a granite moorland in north-eastern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Book of Common Prayer
The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism.
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Boscastle
Boscastle (label) is a village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Forrabury and Minster (where the 2011 Census population was included).
Boundary commissions (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, the boundary commissions are non-departmental public bodies responsible for determining the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies for elections to the House of Commons.
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Breton language
Breton (brezhoneg or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France.
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Bretons
The Bretons (Bretoned or) are an ethnic group native to Brittany, north-western France.
Brexit
Brexit (portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).
Brian of Brittany
Brian of Brittany (1042 – 14 February, perhaps bef. 1086) was a Breton nobleman who fought in the service of William I of England.
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British Asians
British Asians (also referred to as Asian Britons) are British people of Asian descent.
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British brass band
In Britain, a brass band (known regionally as a silver band or colliery band) is a musical ensemble comprising a standardized range of brass and percussion instruments.
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British Iron Age
The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.
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British Transport Police
British Transport Police (BTP; Heddlu Trafnidiaeth Prydeinig) is a national special police force that polices the railway network of England, Wales and Scotland.
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Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. Cornwall and Brittany are Celtic nations.
Brittonic languages
The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; yethow brythonek/predennek; and yezhoù predenek) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Bryan Wynter
Brayane Herbert Wynter (8 September 1915 – 2 February 1975) was one of the St. Ives group of British painters.
Bude
Bude (label) is a seaside town in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet (also known locally as the River Strat).
Callywith College
Callywith College is a further education college in Bodmin, Cornwall.
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Calstock
Calstock (Kalstok) is a civil parish and a large village in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the border with Devon.
Camborne
Camborne (Cambron, Kammbronn) is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Camborne School of Mines
Camborne School of Mines (Scoll Balow Cambron), commonly abbreviated to CSM, was founded in 1888.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Cantref
A cantref (.
Caradon
Caradon was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.
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Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales.
Cargo ship
A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.
Carmen Rhythmicum
The Carmen Rhythmicum ("Rhythmic Poem") is a 7th-8th century poem written in Latin by Aldhelm.
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Carn Brea, Redruth
Carn Brea (Karnbre) is a civil parish and hilltop site in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Carnmenellis
Carnmenellis Hill (or just Carnmenellis) gives its name to the area of west Cornwall in England, between Redruth, Helston and Penryn.
Carrick, Cornwall
Carrick (Karrek) was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Celtic Britons
The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).
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Celtic Christianity
Celtic Christianity is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages.
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Celtic Congress
The International Celtic Congress (Ar C'hendalc'h Keltiek, An Guntelles Keltek, Yn Cohaglym Celtiagh, A' Chòmhdhail Cheilteach, An Chomhdháil Cheilteach, Y Gyngres Geltaidd) is a cultural organisation that seeks to promote the Celtic languages of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man.
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Celtic languages
The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic.
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Celtic League
The Celtic League is a pan-Celtic organization, founded in 1961, that aims to promote modern Celtic identity and culture in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall and the Isle of Man – referred to as the Celtic nations; it places particular emphasis on promoting the Celtic languages of those nations.
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Celtic nations
The Celtic nations or Celtic countries are a cultural area and collection of geographical regions in Northwestern Europe where the Celtic languages and cultural traits have survived.
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Celtic Sea
The Celtic Sea is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of Ireland bounded to the north 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, and Brittany.
Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Centwine of Wessex
Centwine (died after 685) was King of Wessex from c. 676 to 685 or 686, although he was perhaps not the only king of the West Saxons at the time.
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Ceremonial counties of England
Ceremonial counties, formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies, are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed.
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Charles Causley
Charles Stanley Causley CBE FRSL (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a Cornish poet, school teacher and writer.
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Charles de Lint
Charles de Lint (born December 22, 1951) is a Canadian writer.
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Charles Thomas (historian)
Antony Charles Thomas, (26 April 1928 – 7 April 2016)Who's Who was a British historian and archaeologist who was Professor of Cornish Studies at Exeter University, and the first Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, from 1971 until his retirement in 1991.
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Christianity in Cornwall
Christianity in Cornwall began in the 4th or 5th century AD when Western Christianity was introduced as in the rest of Roman Britain.
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Cider
Cider is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of apples.
Civitas
In Ancient Rome, the Latin term civitas (plural civitates), according to Cicero in the time of the late Roman Republic, was the social body of the cives, or citizens, united by law (concilium coetusque hominum jure sociati).
Cladonia rangiferina
Cladonia rangiferina, also known as reindeer cup lichen, reindeer lichen (cf. Sw. renlav) or grey reindeer lichen, is a light-coloured fruticose, cup lichen species in the family Cladoniaceae.
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Clara Coltman Rogers Vyvyan
Clara Coltman Vyvyan (née Rogers; 1885 – 1 March 1976) was an Australian-born travel writer.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Clotted cream
Clotted cream (dehen molys, sometimes called scalded, clouted, Devonshire or Cornish cream) is a thick cream made by heating full-cream cow's milk using steam or a water bath and then leaving it in shallow pans to cool slowly.
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Coast FM (West Cornwall)
West Cornwall's Coast FM is a local radio station for West Cornwall.
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Cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.
Colin Wilson
Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist.
Common Brittonic
Common Brittonic (Brythoneg; Brythonek; Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, is an extinct Celtic language spoken in Britain and Brittany.
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Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire.
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Compound (linguistics)
In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.
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Conan of Cornwall
Conan was a medieval Bishop of Cornwall.
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Conservation biology
Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions.
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Constantine, Cornwall
Constantine (Lann Gostentin, meaning church enclosure of St Constantine) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Constitutional status of Cornwall
The constitutional status of Cornwall has been a matter of debate and dispute.
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Cornish Assembly
A Cornish Assembly (Senedh Kernow) is a proposed devolved law-making assembly for Cornwall along the lines of the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) and the Northern Ireland Assembly in the United Kingdom.
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Cornish Bronze Age
The Cornish Bronze Age is an era of the prehistory of Cornwall that spanned the period from 2400 BCE to c. 800 BCE.
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Cornish dialect
The Cornish dialect (also known as Cornish English, Anglo-Cornish or Cornu-English; Sowsnek Kernowek) is a dialect of English spoken in Cornwall by Cornish people.
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Cornish fairing
A Cornish fairing is a type of traditional ginger biscuit commonly found in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Cornish hurling
Hurling (Hurlian) is an outdoor team game played only in Cornwall, England, played with a small silver ball.
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Cornish language
Cornish (Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family.
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Cornish literature
Cornish literature refers to written works in the Cornish language.
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Cornish nationalism
Cornish nationalism is a cultural, political and social movement that seeks the recognition of Cornwall – the south-westernmost part of the island of Great Britain – as a nation distinct from England.
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Cornish Nationalist Party
The Cornish Nationalist Party (CNP; An Parti Kenethlegek Kernow) is a political party, founded by Dr James Whetter, who campaigned for independence for Cornwall.
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Cornish people
The Cornish people or Cornish (Kernowyon, Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall: and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, which (like the Welsh and Bretons) can trace its roots to the Brittonic Celtic ancient Britons who inhabited Great Britain from somewhere between the 11th and 7th centuries BC and inhabited Britain at the time of the Roman conquest.
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Cornish pilot gig
The Cornish pilot gig is a six-oar rowing boat, clinker-built of Cornish narrow-leaf elm, long with a beam of.
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Cornish rebellion of 1497
The Cornish rebellion of 1497 (Cornish: Rebellyans Kernow), also known as the First Cornish rebellion, was a popular uprising in the Kingdom of England, which began in Cornwall and culminated with the Battle of Deptford Bridge near London on 17 June 1497.
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Cornish Rebels
Cornish Rebels are an amateur rugby league team based in Redruth, Cornwall.
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Cornish wrestling
Cornish wrestling (Omdowl Kernewek) is a form of wrestling that has been established in Cornwall for many centuries and possibly longer.
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Cornouaille
Cornouaille (Kernev, Kerne) is a historical region on the west coast of Brittany in West France.
Cornovii (Cornwall)
The Cornovii is a name for a tribe presumed to have been part of the Dumnonii, a Celtic tribe inhabiting the south-west peninsula of Great Britain, during some part of the Iron Age, Roman and post-Roman periods.
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Cornubian batholith
The Cornubian batholith is a large mass of granite rock, formed about 280 million years ago, which lies beneath much of Cornwall and Devon in the south-western peninsula of Great Britain.
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Cornwall Air Ambulance
The Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust is a charity that provides a dedicated helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
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Cornwall Council
Cornwall Council (Konsel Kernow), known between 1889 and 2009 as Cornwall County Council (Konteth Konsel Kernow), is the local authority which governs the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall in South West England.
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Cornwall County Cricket Club
Cornwall County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Cornwall County Football Association
The Cornwall County Football Association, also known as the Cornwall FA, is the governing body of football in Cornwall.
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Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service covering Cornwall, England.
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Cornwall National Landscape
The Cornwall National Landscape (formerly the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) covers in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; that is, about 27% of the total area of the county.
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Cornwall R.L.F.C.
Cornwall RLFC is a British professional rugby league team based in Penryn, Cornwall, England.
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Cornwall Search & Rescue Team
Cornwall Search and Rescue Team (formerly Cornwall Rescue Group) was a volunteer organisation that provided inland search and rescue cover for the county of Cornwall, England.
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Cornwall Shinty Club
The Cornwall Shinty Club is a shinty club from Cornwall in the UK.
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Costean
Costeaning is the process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes.
Council of the Isles of Scilly
The Council of the Isles of Scilly is a sui generis local government authority covering the Isles of Scilly off the west coast of Cornwall, England.
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County Books series
The County Books series, by Robert Hale and Company of London, covered counties and regions in the British Isles.
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County flowers of the United Kingdom
In 2002 Plantlife conducted a "County Flowers" public survey to assign flowers to each of the counties of the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.
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County town
In Great Britain and Ireland, a county town is the most important town or city in a county.
Crackington Haven
Crackington Haven (Porthkragen, meaning "sandstone cove") is a coastal village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Craig Weatherhill
Craig Weatherhill (1950 or 1951 – 18 or 19 July 2020) was a Cornish antiquarian, novelist and writer on the history, archaeology, place names and mythology of Cornwall.
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Cream tea
A cream tea (also known as a Devon cream tea, Devonshire tea, or Cornish cream tea) is an afternoon tea consisting of tea, scones, clotted cream (or, less authentically, whipped cream), jam, and sometimes butter.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
Culm Measures
The Culm Measures are a thick sequence of geological strata originating during the Carboniferous Period that occur in south-west England, principally in Devon and Cornwall, now known as the Culm Supergroup.
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Cumbric
Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", in what became the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland (now combined as Cumbria), and also Northumberland and northern parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands.
D. H. Lawrence
Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.
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D. M. Thomas
Donald Michael Thomas (25 January 1935 – 26 March 2023) was a British poet, translator, novelist, editor, biographer and playwright.
Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright.
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Dartmoor
Dartmoor is an upland area in southern Devon, South West England.
Davies Gilbert
Davies Gilbert (born Davies Giddy, 6 March 1767 – 24 December 1839) was a British engineer, author, and politician.
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Devon
Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England. Cornwall and Devon are counties in South West England and counties of England established in antiquity.
Devon and Cornwall Police
Devon and Cornwall Police (Kreslu Dewnens ha Kernow) is the territorial police force responsible for policing the ceremonial counties of Devon and Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly) in South West England.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.
Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885.
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Diocese of Exeter
The Diocese of Exeter is a Church of England diocese covering the county of Devon.
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Diocese of Truro
The Diocese of Truro (established 1876) is a Church of England diocese in the Province of Canterbury which covers Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and a small part of Devon.
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Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Diódōros; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.
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Donyarth
Donyarth (Doniert) or Dungarth (died 875) was the last recorded king of Cornwall.
Douglas Reeman
Douglas Edward Reeman (15 October 1924 – 23 January 2017), who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wrote many historical novels about the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars.
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Duchy of Cornwall
The Duchy of Cornwall (Duketh Kernow) is one of two royal duchies in England, the other being the Duchy of Lancaster.
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Dumnonia
Dumnonia is the Latinised name for a Brythonic kingdom that existed in Sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries CE in the more westerly parts of present-day South West England.
Dumnonii
The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Cornwall and Devon (and some areas of present-day Dorset and Somerset) in the further parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period.
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.
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Early modern period
The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.
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Eden Project
The Eden Project (Edenva) is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England.
Edgar, King of England
Edgar (or Eadgar; 8 July 975) was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975.
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Edith Ditmas
Edith Ditmas (1896 – 28 February 1986) was an English archivist, historian and writer.
Edward Bolitho
Colonel Sir Edward Thomas Bolitho (born 30 December 1955) is a former British Army officer, who has served as Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall since 2011.
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Edwin Mellen Press
The Edwin Mellen Press, sometimes stylised as Mellen Press, is an academic publisher.
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Eilert Ekwall
Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (8 January 1877 in Vallsjö – 23 November 1964 in Lund) was a Swedish academic, Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to 1942 and one of the outstanding scholars of the English language in the first half of the 20th century.
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Elizabeth Forbes (artist)
Elizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong; 29 December 1859 – 16 March 1912) was a Canadian painter who was primarily active in the UK.
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Endonym and exonym
An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their homeland, or their language.
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English Channel
The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.
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English football league system
The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the Isle of Man also competing.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English Shinty Association
The English Shinty Association (ESA) is the main body for promoting and encouraging the sport of shinty in England and Wales.
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Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.
Epistola ad Geruntium
The Epistola ad Geruntium ("Epistle to Gerunt") is a letter written by Aldhelm, abbot of Malmesbury to Geraint, King of Dumnonia, about the late 7th - early 8th century.
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Equity (law)
In the field of jurisprudence, equity is the particular body of law, developed in the English Court of Chancery, with the general purpose of providing legal remedies for cases wherein the common law is inflexible and cannot fairly resolve the disputed legal matter.
Erica vagans
Erica vagans, the Cornish heath or wandering heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to Ireland, Cornwall, western France and Spain.
Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is an ethnically diverse society.
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European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe.
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Exeter
Exeter is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.
Exeter Airport
Exeter Airport, formerly Exeter International Airport, is an international airport located at Clyst Honiton in East Devon, close to the city of Exeter and within the county of Devon, South West England.
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Extinct language
An extinct language is a language with no living descendants that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers.
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Falmouth Town A.F.C.
Falmouth Town Association Football Club is a football club based in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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Falmouth University
Falmouth University (Pennskol Aberfal) is a specialist public university for the creative industries based in Falmouth and Penryn, Cornwall, England.
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Falmouth, Cornwall
Falmouth (label) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Fame Academy
Fame Academy was a British television talent competition to search for and educate new musical talents.
Festival Interceltique de Lorient
The Festival interceltique de Lorient (French), Emvod Ar Gelted An Oriant (Breton) or Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient in English, is an annual Celtic festival, located in the city of Lorient, Brittany, France.
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Fiber to the x
Fiber to the x (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications.
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Fishing in Cornwall
Fishing in Cornwall, England, UK, has traditionally been one of the main elements of the economy of the county.
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Fistral Beach
Fistral Beach is in Fistral Bay (label, meaning cove of the foul water) on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Five Go Down to the Sea
Five Go Down To The Sea is the twelfth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton.
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Flag of Brittany
The flag of Brittany (banniel Breiz; drapeau de la Bretagne), a region in the northwest of France, is called the Gwenn-ha-du, which means white and black, in Breton (French blanc et noir).
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Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in London in 1967 by guitarist and singer Peter Green.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
For the Fallen
"For the Fallen" is a poem written by Laurence Binyon.
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Fowey
Fowey (Fowydh, meaning 'Beech Trees') is a port town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) is a multilateral treaty of the Council of Europe aimed at protecting the rights of minorities.
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Frederick Hamilton Davey
Frederick Hamilton Davey (1868–1915) was a British amateur botanist who devoted most of his leisure time to the study of the flora of Cornwall, England.
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Frenchman's Creek (novel)
Frenchman's Creek is a 1941 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier.
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Fudge
Fudge is a type of confection that is made by mixing sugar, butter and milk.
Furry Dance
The most famous Furry Dance takes place in Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.
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Gafulford
Gafulford (alternatively Gafulforda, Gafolforda or Gavelford) is the site of a battle in South West England known from the first entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 823 AD (usually corrected to 825 AD): "Her waes Weala gefeoht Defna aet Gafulford".
Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (Galicia (officially) or Galiza; Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.
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Gaul
Gaul (Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus; Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy) was a Catholic cleric from Monmouth, Wales, and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur.
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Geographical indications and traditional specialities in the European Union
Three European Union schemes of geographical indications and traditional specialties, known as protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI), and traditional speciality guaranteed (TSG), promote and protect names of agricultural products and foodstuffs, wines and spirits.
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Geography (Ptolemy)
The Geography (Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις,, "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.
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Geological resistance
Geological resistance is a measure of how well minerals resist erosive factors, and is based primarily on hardness, chemical reactivity and cohesion.
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George Oliver (historian)
George Oliver (1781–1861) was an English Roman Catholic priest and a historian of Exeter, Devon, England, and its environs.
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Geraint of Dumnonia
Geraint (died 710), known in Latin as Gerontius, was a king of Dumnonia who ruled in the early 8th century.
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Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.
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Gilbert Hunter Doble
Gilbert Hunter Doble (26 November 1880 – 15 April 1945) was an Anglican priest and Cornish historian and hagiographer.
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Glasney College
Glasney College (Kolji Glasneth) 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.
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Goidelic languages
The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.
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Gold rush
A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.
Gorran Haven
Gorran Haven is a fishing village, in the civil parish of St Goran, on the south coast of Cornwall, England, UK.
Gossan
Gossan (eiserner hut or eisenhut) is intensely oxidized, weathered or decomposed rock, usually the upper and exposed part of an ore deposit or mineral vein.
Granite
Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.
Grass Valley, California
Grass Valley is a city in Nevada County, California, United States.
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Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
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Gross value added
In economics, gross value added (GVA) is the measure of the value of goods and services produced in an area, industry or sector of an economy.
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Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude (North Carolina) and moves toward Northwest Europe as the North Atlantic Current.
Gunnies
A gunnies, gunnis, or gunniss is the space left in a mine after the extraction by stoping of a vertical or near vertical ore-bearing lode.
Gyllyngvase
Gyllyngvase (An Gilen Vas, meaning the shallow inlet) is one of the four beaches associated with Falmouth, Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom, and is west of Pendennis Castle.
Haifa
Haifa (Ḥēyfā,; Ḥayfā) is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in.
Hammond Innes
Ralph Hammond Innes (15 July 1913 – 10 June 1998) was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as works for children and travel books.
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Hamoaze
The Hamoaze is an estuarine stretch of the English tidal River Tamar, between its confluence with the River Lynher and Plymouth Sound.
Hansard
Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.
Hardiness zone
A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants.
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Harold Godwinson
Harold Godwinson (– 14 October 1066), also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon English king.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series.
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Hayle Estuary
The Hayle Estuary (Heyl, meaning estuary) is an estuary in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Headland
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water.
Heart West
Heart West is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Heart network.
Heavy cake
Heavy cake or Tesen Hevva cake (Hevva) is a cake, made from flour, lard, butter, milk, sugar and raisins, that originated in Cornwall.
Helston
Helston (label) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Helston Athletic F.C.
Helston Athletic Football Club is a football club based in Helston, Cornwall, England.
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Helston Town Band
Helston Town Band is a brass band in the Cornish town of Helston.
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Henry Jenner
Henry Jenner (8 August 1848 – 8 May 1934) was a British scholar of the Celtic languages, a Cornish cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival.
Hensbarrow
Hensbarrow is a natural region in the county of Cornwall, England, UK, that has been recognized as National Character Area 154 by Natural England.
Heraldry
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree.
Hereward the Wake (novel)
Hereward the Wake: Last of the English (also published as Hereward, the Last of the English) is an 1866 novel by Charles Kingsley.
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His Majesty's Coastguard
His Majesty's Coastguard (HMCG) is the section of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency responsible, through the Secretary of State for Transport to Parliament, for the initiation and co-ordination of all maritime search and rescue (SAR) within the UK Maritime Search and Rescue Region.
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Historia Regum Britanniae
(The History of the Kings of Britain), originally called (On the Deeds of the Britons), is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written around 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
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Historic counties of England
The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others. Cornwall and historic counties of England are counties of England established in antiquity.
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Hits Radio Cornwall
Hits Radio Cornwall, formerly Pirate FM, is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Hits Radio network.
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Holy well
A holy well or sacred spring is a well, spring or small pool of water revered either in a Christian or pagan context, sometimes both.
House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Hugh Town
Hugh Town (Treworenys or Tre Huw) is the largest settlement on the Isles of Scilly and its administrative centre.
Hurling
Hurling (iománaíocht, iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men.
Ice cream
Ice cream is a frozen dessert typically made from milk or cream that has been flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit, such as strawberries or peaches.
Illogan
Illogan (pronounced il'luggan, Egloshalow) is a village and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, two miles (3 km) northwest of Redruth.
Index of Cornwall-related articles
Presented below is an alphabetical index of articles related to Cornwall.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Industry (economics)
In macroeconomics, an industry is a branch of an economy that produces a closely related set of raw materials, goods, or services.
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Ine of Wessex
Ine or Ini, (died in or after 726) was King of Wessex from 689 to 726.
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Institute of Cornish Studies
The Institute of Cornish Studies (ICS) is a research institute in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, affiliated with the University of Exeter.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".
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Isca Dumnoniorum
Isca Dumnoniorum, also known simply as Isca, was originally a Roman legionary fortress for the Second Augustan Legion (established) in the Roman province of Britannia at the site of present-day Exeter in Devon.
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Isle of Man
The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. Cornwall and isle of Man are Celtic nations.
Isle of Man Government
The Isle of Man Government (Reiltys Ellan Vannin) is the government of the Isle of Man.
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Isles of Scilly
The Isles of Scilly (label, Enesek Syllan, or Enesow Syllan) are a small archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Cornwall and Isles of Scilly are unitary authority districts of England.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
ITV West Country
ITV West Country is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the South West England franchise area on the ITV network.
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J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name, is a British author and philanthropist.
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Jack Clemo
Reginald John Clemo (11 March 1916 – 25 July 1994) was a Cornish poet and writer who was strongly associated both with his native Cornwall and his strong Christian belief.
Jack the Giant Killer
"Jack the Giant Killer" is a Cornish fairy tale and legend about a young adult who slays a number of bad giants during King Arthur's reign.
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Jamaica Inn (novel)
Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936.
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Jamie Oliver
Jamie Trevor Oliver MBE OSI (born 27 May 1975) is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur and cookbook author.
Jamie's Kitchen
Jamie's Kitchen is a five-part British documentary television series that aired on Channel 4 from 5 November to 10 December 2002.
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Jenny Colgan
Jenny Colgan (born 14 September 1972, Prestwick, Ayrshire) is a Scottish writer of romantic comedy fiction and science fiction.
John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman, (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster.
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John Capgrave
John Capgrave (21 April 1393 – 12 August 1464) was an English historian, hagiographer and scholastic theologian, remembered chiefly for Nova Legenda Angliae (New Reading from England).
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John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television.
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John Torode
John Douglas Torode (born 23 July 1965) is an Australian-British celebrity chef and TV presenter.
John Wesley
John Wesley (2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism.
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
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Kaolinite
Kaolinite (also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition: Al2Si2O5(OH)4.
Kate Tremayne
Kate Tremayne is a British novelist from East Tilbury in Essex.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kerrier
Kerrier (Keryer) was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
King Arthur
King Arthur (Brenin Arthur, Arthur Gernow, Roue Arzhur, Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain.
Kroaz Du
The Kroaz Du (Black Cross, Croix Noire) is a flag of Brittany, used as an emblem of the independent duchy in the late Middle Ages.
Kynance Cove
Kynance Cove (Porth Keynans, meaning ravine cove) is a cove on the eastern side of Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England.
Lamorna Birch
Samuel John "Lamorna" Birch, RA, RWS (7 June 1869 – 7 January 1955) was an English artist in oils and watercolours.
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Land's End
Land's End (Cornish Standard Written Form or Pedn an Wlas) is a headland and tourist and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the Penwith peninsula about west-south-west of Penzance at the western end of the A30 road.
Land's End Airport
Land's End Airport, situated near St Just in Penwith, west of Penzance, in Cornwall, is the most south westerly airport of mainland Britain.
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Lanner, Cornwall
Lanner (Lannergh) is a village and civil parish in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Last Glacial Period
The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.
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Last speaker of the Cornish language
Identifying the last native speaker of the Cornish language was a subject of academic interest in the 18th and 19th centuries, and continues to be a subject of interest today.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Latinisation of names
Latinisation (or Latinization) of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation, is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style.
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Launceston, Cornwall
Launceston (rarely spelled Lanson as a local abbreviation; Lannstevan) is a town, ancient borough, and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is west of the middle stage of the River Tamar, which constitutes almost the entire border between Cornwall and Devon. The landscape of the town is generally steep particularly at a sharp south-western knoll topped by Launceston Castle.
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Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar.
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Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)
The Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition, more commonly referred to as the Leader of the Opposition, is the person who leads the Official Opposition in the United Kingdom.
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Lewiston, New York
Lewiston is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States.
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Liberal Democrats (UK)
The Liberal Democrats (colloquially known as the Lib Dems) are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1988.
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Lifeboat (shipboard)
A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship.
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List of Cornish saints
This is a list of Cornish saints, including saints more loosely associated with Cornwall: many of them will have links to sites elsewhere in regions with significant ancient British history, such as Wales, Brittany or Devon.
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List of parliamentary constituencies in Cornwall
The ceremonial county of Cornwall, which includes the Isles of Scilly, is divided into six parliamentary constituencies.
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List of revived languages
A revived language is a language that at one point had no native speakers, but through revitalization efforts has regained native speakers.
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List of water sports
Water sports or aquatic sports are sports activities conducted on waterbodies and can be categorized according to the degree of immersion by the participants.
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Lizard complex
The Lizard complex, Cornwall is generally accepted to represent a preserved example of an exposed ophiolite complex in the United Kingdom.
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Lizard Point, Cornwall
Lizard Point in Cornwall is at the southern tip of the Lizard Peninsula.
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Local government in England
Local government in England broadly consists of three layers: civil parishes, local authorities, and regional authorities.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
London Paddington station
Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area.
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Looe
Looe (Logh) is a coastal town and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, with a population of 5,280 at the 2011 census.
Luke Vibert
Luke Vibert (born 26 January 1973) is a British electronic musician and producer, also known for his work under several aliases such as Plug and Wagon Christ.
Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
Lys Kernow
Lys Kernow, known as New County Hall between 1966 and 2009, is a municipal facility at Treyew Road in Truro, Cornwall.
M5 motorway
The M5 is a motorway in England linking the Midlands with the South West.
Mabel Quiller-Couch
Florence Mabel Quiller-Couch (17 June 1865England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 – November 1924) was an English editor, compiler and children's writer.
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Mark of Cornwall
Mark of Cornwall (Marcus, Margh, March or Marchell, Marc'h) was a sixth-century King of Kernow (Cornwall), possibly identical with King Conomor.
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Marsland Valley
Marsland Valley is a nature reserve situated in two large valleys which straddle the northern end of the Devon-Cornwall border.
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Mary Wesley
Mary Aline Siepmann CBE (24 June 191230 December 2002), known by the pen name Mary Wesley, was an English novelist.
MasterChef (British TV series)
MasterChef is a British competitive cooking reality show produced by Endemol Shine UK and Banijay and broadcast in 60 countries around the world.
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Matter of Britain
The Matter of Britain (matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.
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Mead
Mead, also called hydromel (particularly when low in alcohol content), is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops.
Mebyon Kernow
Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall (MK; Cornish for Sons of Cornwall) is a Cornish nationalist, centre-left political party in Cornwall, in southwestern Britain.
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Menabilly
Menabilly (Men Ebeli, meaning stone of colts) is a historic estate on the south coast of Cornwall, England, situated within the parish of Tywardreath on the Gribben peninsula about west of Fowey.
Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
Metamorphism
Metamorphism is the transformation of existing rock (the protolith) to rock with a different mineral composition or texture.
Methodism
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.
Michael (archangel)
Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i faith.
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Michael Bond
Thomas Michael Bond (13 January 1926 – 27 June 2017) was an English author.
Mick Fleetwood
Michael John Kells Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician, songwriter and actor.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Mineralization (geology)
In geology, mineralization is the deposition of economically important metals in the formation of ore bodies or "lodes" by various process.
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Mining in Cornwall and Devon
Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the southwest of Britain, is thought to have begun in the early-middle Bronze Age with the exploitation of cassiterite.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
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Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)
Mixed is an ethnic group category that was first introduced by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics for the 2001 Census.
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Modern English
Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed by the 17th century.
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Monica Furlong
Monica Furlong (17 January 1930 – 14 January 2003) was a British author, journalist, and activist.
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Mousehole
Mousehole (Porthenys) is a village and fishing port in Cornwall, England, UK.
Mousehole A.F.C.
Mousehole Association Football Club is a football club based in Paul, Cornwall.
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Mummers' play
Mummers' plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, wrenboys, and galoshins).
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My Cousin Rachel
My Cousin Rachel is a Gothic novel written by English author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951.
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Nanstallon
Nanstallon is a village in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
National Counties of English and Welsh cricket
The National Counties, known as the Minor Counties before 2020, are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that do not have first-class status.
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National Health Service (England)
The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom.
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National League South
The National League South, formerly Conference South, is one of the two second divisions of the National League in England, immediately below the top division National League.
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Naum Gabo
Naum Gabo, born Naum Neemia Pevsner (Russian: Наум Борисович Певзнер, Hebrew: נחום נחמיה פבזנר) (23 August 1977) was an influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of twentieth-century sculpture.
NCB Radio
NCB Radio is an internet community radio station serving the community of North Cornwall in England, UK.
Nectan of Hartland
Saint Nectan, sometimes styled Saint Nectan of Hartland, was a 5th-century holy man who lived in Stoke, Hartland, in the nowadays English, and at the time Brythonic-speaking, county of Devon, where the prominent St Nectan's Church, Hartland is dedicated to him.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Newlyn
Newlyn (Lulyn: Lu 'fleet', Lynn/Lydn 'pool') is a seaside town and fishing port in south-west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Newlyn School
The Newlyn School was an art colony of artists based in or near Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, on the south coast of Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early twentieth century.
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Newquay
Newquay (label) is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Newquay Airport
Cornwall Airport Newquay (Cornish: Ayrborth Tewynblustri Kernow) is the main commercial airport for Cornwall, England, located at Mawgan in Pydar, northeast of the town of Newquay on Cornwall's north coast.
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Nicholas Orme
Nicholas Orme FSA FRHistS (born 1942) is a British historian specialising in the Middle Ages and Tudor period, focusing on the history of children, and ecclesiastical history, with a particular interest in South West England.
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Nicola Bayley
Nicola Mary Bayley (born August 18, 1949) is a Singaporean-born British children's book illustrator and author.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Norman Conquest
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.
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Norman Garstin
Norman Garstin (28 August 1847 – 22 June 1926) was an Irish artist, teacher, art critic and journalist associated with the Newlyn School of painters.
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North Cornwall
North Cornwall (An Tiredh Uhel) is an area of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Northern Ireland Assembly
The Northern Ireland Assembly (Tionól Thuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlan Assemblie), often referred to by the metonym Stormont, is the devolved legislature of Northern Ireland.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
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Ophiolite
An ophiolite is a section of Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle that has been uplifted and exposed, and often emplaced onto continental crustal rocks.
Ordinalia
The Ordinalia are three medieval mystery plays dating to the late fourteenth century, written primarily in Middle Cornish, with stage directions in Latin.
Orogeny
Orogeny is a mountain-building process that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin.
Outline of Cornwall
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Cornwall: Cornwall – ceremonial county and unitary authority area of England within the United Kingdom.
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Over Sea, Under Stone
Over Sea, Under Stone is a contemporary fantasy novel written for children by the English author Susan Cooper, first published in London by Jonathan Cape in 1965.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Paddington Bear
Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature.
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Padstow
Padstow (Cornish Standard Written Form) is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.
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Passion Play
The Passion Play or Easter pageant is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus Christ: his trial, suffering and death.
Pasture
Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.
Pasty
A pasty is a British baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, South West England, but has spread all over the British Isles, and elsewhere through the Cornish diaspora.
Patrick Heron
Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 – 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, critic, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall.
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Penryn Campus
Penryn Campus (formerly Tremough Campus, Cornwall Campus and similar names) is a university campus in Penryn, Cornwall, England, UK.
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Penryn, Cornwall
Penryn (Pennrynn, meaning 'promontory') is a civil parish and town in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Pentire Head
Pentire Head (Penn Tir, meaning "headland") is a headland and peninsula on the Atlantic coast in North Cornwall, England, and is about one mile square.
Penwith
Penwith (Pennwydh) is an area of Cornwall, England, located on the peninsula of the same name.
Penwith Society of Arts
The Penwith Society of Arts is an art group formed in St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK, in early 1949 by abstract artists who broke away from the more conservative St Ives School.
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Penzance
Penzance (Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Perranporth
Perranporth (label) is a seaside resort town on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
Peter Lanyon
George Peter Lanyon (8 February 1918 – 31 August 1964) was a British painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction.
Phoenicia
Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.
Pictish language
Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.
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Plymouth
Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. Cornwall and Plymouth are unitary authority districts of England.
Poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.
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Poldark
Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, published from 1945 to 1953 and continued from 1973 to 2002, beginning with the first novel entitled of the eponymous protagonist Ross Poldark, was named for the protagonist of the series.
Polperro
Polperro (Porthpyra, meaning Pyra's cove) is a large village, civil parish, and fishing harbour within the Polperro Heritage Coastline in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Polzeath
Polzeath (label, meaning dry creek) is a small seaside resort village in the civil parish of St Minver in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Porthtowan
Porthtowan (Cornish Standard Written Form, meaning landing place at the sand dunes) is a small village in Cornwall, England, UK, which is a popular summer tourist destination.
Portrait of (book series)
The Portrait of books is a series of topographical works describing the cities, counties, and regions of Britain and some of the regions of France.
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Praa Sands
Praa Sands (Poll an Wragh.
Prayer Book Rebellion
The Prayer Book Rebellion or Western Rising was a popular revolt in Cornwall and Devon in 1549.
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Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
Prevailing winds
In meteorology, prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction.
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Primary sector of the economy
The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining.
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Proto-Celtic language
Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the hypothetical ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European.
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Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Public university
A public university or public college is a university or college that is owned by the state or receives significant funding from a government.
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Pytheas
Pytheas of Massalia (Ancient Greek: Πυθέας ὁ Μασσαλιώτης Pythéās ho Massaliōtēs; Latin: Pytheas Massiliensis; born 350 BC, 320–306 BC) was a Greek geographer, explorer and astronomer from the Greek colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, France).
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass).
Radio St Austell Bay
CHAOS Radio (formerly known as Radio St Austell Bay and RSAB, often incorrectly called St Austell Bay Radio) is a non-profit, community radio station.
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Ravenna Cosmography
The Ravenna Cosmography (Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names covering the world from India to Ireland, compiled by an anonymous cleric in Ravenna around 700 AD.
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Rebecca (novel)
Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel written by English author Daphne du Maurier.
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Redruth
Redruth (Resrudh) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Regional policy of the European Union
The Regional Policy of the European Union (EU), also referred as Cohesion Policy, is a policy with the stated aim of improving the economic well-being of regions in the European Union and also to avoid regional disparities.
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Restormel
Restormel (Rostorrmel) was a borough of Cornwall, England, one of the six administrative divisions that made up the county.
Restormel Castle
Restormel Castle (Kastel Rostorrmel) lies by the River Fowey near Lostwithiel in Cornwall, England, UK.
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Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament
The Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament (Cornish: Seneth Stenegow Kernow), was a pressure group which claimed to be a revival of the historic Cornish Stannary Parliament last held in 1753.
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RFL League 1
The Rugby Football League One (known as the Betfred League One) is the third-highest division of rugby league in Britain.
Ria
A ria (ría, feminine noun derived from río, river) is a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley.
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Richard Rufus of Cornwall
Richard Rufus (Ricardus Rufus, "Richard the Red") was a Cornish Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian.
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").
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Rick Stein
Christopher Richard Stein, (born 4 January 1947) is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur, writer and television presenter.
River Camel
The River Camel (Dowr Kammel, meaning crooked river) is a river in Cornwall, England.
River Fal
The River Fal (label) flows through Cornwall, rising at Pentevale on Goss Moor (between St. Columb and Roche) and reaching the English Channel at Falmouth.
River Fowey
The River Fowey (label) is a river in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
River Looe
The River Looe (Logh, meaning deep water inlet) is a river in south-east Cornwall, which flows into the English Channel at Looe.
River Tamar
The Tamar (Dowr Tamar) is a river in south west England that forms most of the border between Devon (to the east) and Cornwall (to the west).
Robert Hawker (poet)
Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was a British Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian and reputed eccentric, known to his parishioners as Parson Hawker.
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Robert, Count of Mortain
Robert, Count of Mortain, first Earl of Cornwall of 2nd creation (–) was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother (on their mother's side) of King William the Conqueror.
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Robin Teverson, Baron Teverson
Robin Teverson, Baron Teverson (born 31 March 1952) is a Liberal Democrat politician, and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
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Rock, Cornwall
Rock (Pennmeyn) is a coastal fishing village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Rodda's
Rodda's is a dairy company in Scorrier, Cornwall, United Kingdom, known for clotted cream.
Roger Hilton
Roger Hilton CBE (1911–1975) was a pioneer of abstract art in post-Second World War Britain.
Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)
Roger Meddows Taylor (born 26 July 1949) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer.
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Roman Britain
Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth
The Diocese of Plymouth(Dioecesis Plymuthensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in England.
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Romano-British culture
The Romano-British culture arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia.
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Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (née Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall.
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Royal Albert Bridge
The Royal Albert Bridge is a railway bridge which spans the River Tamar in England between Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall.
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Ruddigore
Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse, originally called Ruddygore, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.
Rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and South America, and referred to colloquially as football, footy or league in its heartlands, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring wide and long with H-shaped posts at both ends.
Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
Rugby union in Cornwall
Rugby union in Cornwall (unyans rugbi) is Cornwall's most popular spectator sport with a large following.
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Rule Britannia (novel)
Rule Britannia is Daphne du Maurier's last novel, Retrieved 4 August 2013 published in 1972 by Victor Gollancz.
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Rutabaga
Rutabaga (North American English) or Swede (English and some Commonwealth English) is a root vegetable, a form of Brassica napus (which also includes rapeseed).
Saffron bun
A saffron bun, Cornish tea treat bun or revel bun, is a rich, spiced yeast-leavened sweet bun that is flavoured with saffron and contains dried fruit including currants and raisins similar to a teacake.
Saint Boniface
Boniface (born Wynfreth; 675 – 5 June 754) was an English Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of Francia during the eighth century.
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Saint Petroc
Petroc or Petrock (Petrocus; Pedrog; Perreux) was a British prince and Christian saint.
Saint Piran
Piran or Pyran (Peran; Piranus), died c. 480,. Oecumenical Patriarchate, Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain.
Saltash
Saltash (Cornish: Essa) is a town and civil parish in south Cornwall, England.
Samson of Dol
Samson of Dol (also Samsun; born late 5th century) was a Welsh saint, who is also counted among the seven founder saints of Brittany with Pol Aurelian, Tugdual or Tudwal, Brieuc, Malo, Patern (Paternus) and Corentin.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.
Scorrier
Scorrier is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots Pairlament) is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Scotland.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
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Senedd
The Senedd, officially known as the Welsh Parliament in English and Senedd Cymru in Welsh, is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Wales.
Serpentinite
Serpentinite is a metamorphic rock composed predominantly of one or more serpentine group minerals formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic to ultramafic rocks.
Sharp's Brewery
Sharp's Brewery is a British brewery founded in 1994 in St Minver Lowlands, Rock, Cornwall, by Bill Sharp.
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Shinty
Shinty (camanachd, iomain) is a team sport played with sticks and a ball.
Sir James Smith's School
Sir James Smith's School is a coeducational secondary school located in the town of Camelford, North Cornwall, England.
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Skinner's Brewery
Skinner's is a British brewery founded in 1997 by Steve Skinner in Truro, Cornwall, England.
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Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.
Smuggling
Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.
Source FM
Source FM is a community radio station, for the combined Falmouth and Penryn community and the wider area.
South Crofty
South Crofty is a metalliferous tin and copper mine located in the village of Pool, Cornwall, England.
South West Coast Path
The South West Coast Path is England's longest waymarked long-distance footpath and a National Trail.
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South West England
South West England, or the South West of England, is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom.
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South West of England Regional Development Agency
The South West of England Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) was one of the nine Regional Development Agencies set up by the United Kingdom government in 1999.
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South West Peninsula
The South West Peninsula is the area of England between the Bristol Channel to the north and the English Channel to the south. Cornwall and south West Peninsula are peninsulas of England.
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South Western Ambulance Service
The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is the organisation responsible for providing ambulance services for the National Health Service (NHS) across South West England.
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Sport in the United Kingdom
Sport in the United Kingdom plays an important role in British culture and the United Kingdom has played a significant role in the organisation and spread of sporting culture globally.
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St Agnes, Cornwall
St Agnes (label) is a civil parish and a large village on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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St Austell
Saint Austell (label) is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, south of Bodmin and west of the border with Devon.
St Austell Brewery
St Austell Brewery is a brewery founded in 1851 by Walter Hicks at St Austell, Cornwall, England.
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St Columb Major
St Columb Major is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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St Columb Minor
St Columb Minor (Sen Kolumm Vyghan) (Latin: Columba Minor Sancta) is a village in the civil parish of Newquay, on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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St Enodoc's Church, Trebetherick
St.
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St Gennys
St Gennys (label) is a coastal civil parish and small settlement in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives (Porth Ia, meaning "St Ia's cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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St Just in Penwith
St Just (Lan(n)ust), also known as St Just in Penwith, is a town and civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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St Mabyn Church of England Primary School
St Mabyn C of E Primary School is a Church of England Primary School with academy status located in the village of St Mabyn between Bodmin and Wadebridge in Cornwall, England, UK.
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St Mary's Airport, Isles of Scilly
St Mary's Airport or Isles of Scilly Airport is an airport located east of Hugh Town on St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly, to the south west of Cornwall, UK.
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St Mawgan
St Mawgan or St Mawgan in Pydar (Lanherne) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
St Michael's Mount
St Michael's Mount (Karrek Loos yn Koos, meaning "hoar rock in woodland") is a tidal island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Stanhope Forbes
Stanhope Alexander Forbes (18 November 1857 – 2 March 1947) was a British artist and a founding member of the influential Newlyn school of painters.
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Stannary law
Stannary law (derived from the stannum for tin) is the body of English law that governs tin mining in Cornwall and Devon; although no longer of much practical relevance, the stannary law remains part of the law of the United Kingdom and is arguably the oldest law incorporated into the English legal system.
Stargazy pie
Stargazy pie (Cornish: Hogen Ster-Lagatta; sometimes called starrey gazey pie, stargazey pie and other variants) is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards (sardines), along with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust.
Stout
Stout is a type of dark beer, that is generally warm fermented, such as dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout and imperial stout.
Sub-Roman Britain
Sub-Roman Britain is the period of late antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the Anglo-Saxon settlement.
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Surfing
Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.
Susan Cooper
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books.
Swansea
Swansea (Abertawe) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales.
Tamar Bridge
The Tamar Bridge is a suspension bridge over the River Tamar between Saltash, Cornwall and Plymouth, Devon in southwest England.
Tamar Valley National Landscape
Tamar Valley National Landscape is a legally designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Devon and Cornwall in England.
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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.
Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Terry Frost
Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall.
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
"The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" from 1910 is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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The Birds (story)
"The Birds" is a horror story by the British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree.
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The Bolitho novels
The Bolitho novels are a series of nautical war novels written by British author Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent).
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The Book Collector
The Book Collector is a London-based journal that deals with all aspects of the book.
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The Camomile Lawn
The Camomile Lawn is a 1984 novel by Mary Wesley beginning with a family holiday in Cornwall in the last summer of peace before the Second World War.
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The Cornwall College Group
The Cornwall College Group (TCCG; Kolji Kernow) is a further education college situated on eight sites throughout Cornwall and Devon, England, United Kingdom, with its headquarters in St Austell.
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The Famous Five
The Famous Five is a series of children's adventure novels and short stories written by English author Enid Blyton.
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The House on the Strand
The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in the UK in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, with a jacket illustration by her daughter, Flavia Tower.
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The King's General
The King's General is a novel, published in 1946, by English author and playwright Daphne du Maurier.
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The Loving Spirit
The Loving Spirit was the first novel of Daphne du Maurier and was published in 1931 by William Heinemann.
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The Mind Parasites
The Mind Parasites is a science fiction horror novel by English author Colin Wilson.
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The Mousehole Cat
The Mousehole Cat is a children's book written by Antonia Barber and illustrated by Nicola Bayley.
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The Outsider (Wilson book)
The Outsider is a 1956 book by English writer Colin Wilson.
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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.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet.
Tin
Tin is a chemical element; it has symbol Sn and atomic number 50.
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Tin mining in Britain
Tin mining in Britain took place from prehistoric times, during Bronze Age Britain, until the 20th century.
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Tintagel
Tintagel or Trevena (Tre war Venydh, meaning Village on a Mountain) is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Tom Bawcock
Tom Bawcock is a legendary character from the village of Mousehole, Cornwall, England.
Tom Bawcock's Eve
Tom Bawcock's Eve is an annual festival, held on 23 December, in Mousehole, Cornwall.
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Tomb Raider: Legend
Tomb Raider: Legend is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive.
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Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.
Tori Amos
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.
Torpoint
Torpoint (Penntorr) is a town and civil parish on the Rame Peninsula in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Torpoint Ferry
The Torpoint Ferry is a car and pedestrian chain ferry connecting the A374 which crosses the Hamoaze, a stretch of water at the mouth of the River Tamar, between Devonport in Plymouth and Torpoint in Cornwall.
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Trematon Castle
Trematon Castle (Kastel Tremen) is situated near Saltash in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Tristan and Iseult
Tristan and Iseult, also known as Tristan and Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century.
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Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg.
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Truro
Truro (Cornish Standard Written Form) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Truro and Penwith College
Truro and Penwith College is a further education college in Cornwall, England.
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Truro City F.C.
Truro City Football Club is an English football club based in Truro, Cornwall.
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UK City of Culture
UK City of Culture is a designation given to a city (or a local area from 2025) in the United Kingdom for a period of one calendar year, during which the successful bidder hosts cultural festivities through culture-led regeneration for the year.
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Ultramafic rock
Ultramafic rocks (also referred to as ultrabasic rocks, although the terms are not wholly equivalent) are igneous and meta-igneous rocks with a very low silica content (less than 45%), generally >18% MgO, high FeO, low potassium, and are composed of usually greater than 90% mafic minerals (dark colored, high magnesium and iron content).
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Unitary authorities of England
The unitary authorities of England are a type of local authority responsible for all local government services in an area.
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Unitary authority
A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national government.
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United Kingdom constituencies
In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons.
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University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon.
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Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer.
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Vug
A vug, vugh, or vugg is a small- to medium-sized cavity inside rock.
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W. S. Graham
William Sydney Graham (19 November 1918 – 9 January 1986) was a Scottish poet, who was often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic group of poets.
Wadebridge School
Wadebridge School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the town of Wadebridge, Cornwall, England.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Cornwall and Wales are Celtic nations.
Wallonia
Wallonia (Wallonie), officially the Walloon Region (Région wallonne), is one of the three regions of Belgium—along with Flanders and Brussels.
Watergate Bay
Watergate Bay (label, meaning cove at Coryan's farmstead/village) is a long bay or beach flanked by cliffs centred two miles NNE of Newquay below the B3276 Newquay to Padstow road near the hamlet of Tregurrian in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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Wave-cut platform
A wave-cut platform, shore platform, coastal bench, or wave-cut cliff is the narrow flat area often found at the base of a sea cliff or along the shoreline of a lake, bay, or sea that was created by erosion.
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Welsh Government
The Welsh Government (Llywodraeth Cymru) is the devolved government of Wales.
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.
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Welsh people
The Welsh (Cymry) are an ethnic group native to Wales.
Wendron
Wendron (Egloswendron (village), Pluw Wendron (parish); historically St. Wendron) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Wessex
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886. Cornwall and Wessex are former kingdoms.
West Country
The West Country (An Tir West) is a loosely defined area within southwest England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.
Wheal Coates
Wheal Coates is a former tin mine situated on the north coast of Cornwall, UK, on the cliff tops between Porthtowan and St Agnes.
White British
White British is an ethnicity classification used for the indigenous White population identifying as English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Northern Irish, or British in the United Kingdom Census.
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White people in the United Kingdom
White people in the United Kingdom are a multi-ethnic group consisting of indigenous and European UK residents who identify as and are perceived to be 'white people'.
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William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
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William of Malmesbury
William of Malmesbury (Willelmus Malmesbiriensis) was the foremost English historian of the 12th century.
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William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror (Bates William the Conqueror p. 33– 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death.
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Winston Graham
Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the ''Poldark'' series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary thrillers, period novels, short stories, non-fiction and plays.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Wrecking (shipwreck)
Wrecking is the practice of taking valuables from a shipwreck which has foundered or run aground close to shore.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
2001 United Kingdom census
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.
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2005 United Kingdom general election
The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 5 May 2005, to elect 646 members to the House of Commons.
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2005 United Kingdom local elections
The 2005 United Kingdom local elections were held on Thursday 5 May 2005, with various councils and local government seats being contested in England and Northern Ireland, and a local referendum taking place on the Isle of Wight on the issue of a directly elected mayor.
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2009 Cornwall Council election
The Cornwall Council election, 2009, was an election for all 123 seats on the council.
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2010 United Kingdom general election
The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010, to elect Members of Parliament (or MPs) to the House of Commons.
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2011 United Kingdom census
A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.
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2015 United Kingdom general election
The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 May 2015 to elect 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.
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2017 United Kingdom general election
The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015; it was the first since 1992 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections.
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2019 United Kingdom general election
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 12 December 2019, with 47,567,752 registered voters entitled to vote to elect 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.
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2021 United Kingdom census
The 2021 United Kingdom census is the 23rd official census of the United Kingdom.
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2024 United Kingdom general election in England
The 2024 United Kingdom general election in England was held on Thursday 4 July across 543 constituencies within the nine regions in England.
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See also
Celtic nations
- Brittany
- Celtic nations
- Cornwall
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Scotland
- Wales
Counties in South West England
Counties of England established in antiquity
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- City of London
- Cornwall
- Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844
- County Durham
- Cumberland
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Hexhamshire
- Historic counties of England
- Huntingdonshire
- Kent
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- List of counties of England and Wales in 1964 by highest point
- List of county exclaves in England and Wales 1844–1974
- Middlesex
- Norfolk
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832
- Rutland
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Warwickshire
- Westmorland
- Wiltshire
- Winchcombeshire
- Worcestershire
- Yorkshire
English unitary authorities created in 2009
- Borough of Bedford
- Central Bedfordshire
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Cornwall
- County Durham (district)
- Durham County Council
- Northumberland
- Shropshire Council
- Wiltshire
Local government districts of South West England
NUTS 2 statistical regions of the United Kingdom
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- County Durham (district)
- Cumbria
- East Anglia
- East Wales
- Essex
- Greater Manchester
- Highlands and Islands
- Inner London
- Isle of Wight
- Lancashire
- List of regions of the United Kingdom by GRDP
- List of regions of the United Kingdom by GRP per capita
- List of settlements in Essex by population
- List of settlements in Greater Manchester by population
- List of settlements in Merseyside by population
- List of settlements in South Yorkshire by population
- List of settlements in Surrey by population
- List of settlements in Tyne and Wear by population
- List of settlements in West Yorkshire by population
- Merseyside
- North Yorkshire (district)
- Northern Ireland
- Northumberland
- Outer London
- Tyne and Wear
- West Midlands (county)
- West Wales
- West Wales and the Valleys
Peninsulas of England
- Cartmel Peninsula
- Cornwall
- Dengie Peninsula
- Filey Brigg
- Furness
- Greenwich Peninsula
- Hambleton Peninsula
- Hamworthy
- Hoo Peninsula
- Isle of Dogs
- Isle of Portland
- Isle of Purbeck
- Manhood Peninsula
- Rotherhithe
- Shotley Peninsula
- South West Peninsula
- Steart Peninsula
- Wirral Peninsula
References
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