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48 unusual facts about Cornwall


1925 Open Championship

Born and raised in Cornwall, England, Barnes opened with a course record 70 to take a four stroke lead as the course was dry and fast.

Adam McQuaid

McQuaid played major midget hockey in his hometown of Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, Prince Edward Island for the Cornwall Thunder before playing major junior hockey with the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) for four seasons.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft.

Annette Penhaligon

From 1987 to 1994, she was a member of Carrick District Council and in 1993 was appointed a Dame of the Order of the British Empire for her services to politics and public service.

Atlantic FM

The station began broadcasting at 7:30am on 6 July 2006, and broadcast from studios at St Agnes.

BBC Home Service

The last Regional Home Service was an FM opt-out of Radio 4 for Devon and Cornwall as the "South West Region", also carried on several low power medium-wave transmitters, which continued until BBC Radio Cornwall and BBC Radio Devon opened on 17 January 1983.

Bisbee Riot

The town had "rules" prohibiting Mexican men from working underground in the mines, instead the work was reserved for Welsh and Cornish miners.

Bosom of Abraham Trinity

though it seems this news had not reached Cornwall by the early 16th century, when a stained glass Abraham with a napkin of souls was installed in the parish church at St Neot, Cornwall (picture below).

Castle Downs

Castle Downs, Cornwall, the site of an important hillfort in Cornwall, England

Celtic Fest Chicago

Not just an "Irish" festival, Celtic Fest Chicago is a cultural celebration of the ancient Celtic nations of Ireland; Brittany, France; Galicia, Spain; Scotland; the Isle of Man; Cornwall and Wales.

Columba the Virgin

There the prince cut off her head, and where the blood fell a spring gushed forth and the water following the course of her flight made the still unnamed river which empties itself at St Columb Porth.

Cornish Rebellion of 1497

The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 (Cornish: Rebellyans Kernow) was a popular uprising by the people of Cornwall in the far southwest of Britain.

Cornish Riviera Express

The Cornish Riviera Express is a British express passenger train that has run between London and Penzance in Cornwall since 1904.

Cornwall College Students' Union

Cornwall College Students' Union provides democratic representation, services, and welfare support to all Cornwall College students, including Duchy College and Falmouth Marine School, across seven campuses.

Cornwall, New York

Shea Farrell, Actor and Producer noted for playing Mark Danning in the television show Hotel created by Aaron Spelling

Cornwall, Ontario

Its flag also bears the insignia and colours of the flag of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Performers have included Collective Soul, Trooper, Tom Cochrane, April Wine, Sass Jordan, Glass Tiger, Dennis DeYoung, Chantal Kreviazuk, Theory of a Deadman, Kim Mitchell & Max Webster guitarist, Peter Fredette, Finger Eleven, Amanda Marshall, Our Lady Peace, and Marianas Trench.

It is named after the English Duchy of Cornwall; the city's coat of arms is based on that of the duchy with its colours reversed and the addition of a "royal tressure", a Scottish symbol of royalty.

Cornwall, Pennsylvania

In 1765 Peter's sons Curtis and Peter Jr. took over the operation, and in 1798 it passed to Robert Coleman and his family.

Cornwall, Prince Edward Island

Jared Connaughton, Canadian Sprinter, 2005 Canada Games gold medalist 100m & 200m

Dennis Whitty

Pascoe had previously worked as a labourer at Nanjarrow Farm, at Constantine, near Falmouth, and knew the farmer, William Rowe.

Deviock

Deviock civil parish was created as recently as April 1997 from part of the former St Germans Parish; it also includes parts of St Martin-by-Looe and part of Morval.

Dickie Burrough

Herbert Dickinson "Dickie" Burrough, born at Wedmore, Somerset, on 6 February 1909, and died at Padstow, Cornwall, on 9 April 1994, played 171 first-class cricket matches for Somerset in a career that last for 20 years from 1927.

Dod Procter

She died in 1972 and is buried next to her husband at St Hilary Church.

Gwinear

Gwinear, Cornwall, a village in the United Kingdom, named for the saint

Gwithian

The pub takes its name from the nearby Red River which, in turn, got its name from the discolouration caused by mining effluent.

Irish Jam

In its review of the DVD release, Empire called it a "worst possible Eddie Murphy knock-off" and questioned why would Ireland still have had an evil aristocratic English landlord in 2006, noting it was filmed in Cornwall because, presumably, any attempts to mount stereotypes this broad, in Ireland, would have seriously offended the people of Ireland.

James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn

He died, unmarried, from consumption at Falmouth, soon after landing from Lisbon, where he had been wintering in the warmer winter clime.

Lokata Company

The Ministry of Defence tried to requisition his patent, but he defied the secrecy order and went public and a public row arose about possible loss of employment making Lokata Watchmans in Falmouth, Cornwall where he lived.

The Lokata Company (pronounced low-kay-tah, "locator") was formed in the late 1970s in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.

Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway

There were close links with the Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway; some directors and officers served both companies, and offices were in a shared building at Par.

Marjorie Blamey

Marjorie Blamey lives with her husband Philip at their home in the Cornish village of St Germans.

Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor

Thomas and Garner Ltd provide business consultancy services, based in Roche, Cornwall.

Mojácar

Due to tourism, the Indalo Man has spread in popularity and has been seen on houses in various parts of Europe such as Brittany in France and Cornwall in England.

Newlyn School of Art

Newlyn School of Art is a not-for-profit educational organisation based in West Cornwall offering short art courses and mentoring by way of professional development for artists.

Nicholas Randall

In 1546 he obtained a lease on the manor of Tybesta in Creed.

No. 236 Squadron RAF

The squadron was formed on 20 August 1918 from No's 493, 515 & 516 Flights at Mullion, in Cornwall.

Owen McCourt

On March 6, 1907, McCourt was playing for the Cornwall Hockey Club against the Ottawa Vics in a replay of a match on February 15 protested by Ottawa because McCourt and one other player had played for the Montreal Shamrocks of a rival league.

Plymouth University Hockey Club

UPHC are well known throughout Devon and Cornwall and have become one of the biggest clubs within the University.

QinetiQ 1

In 2003 the launch was initially set to take place on September 2 from the deck of RV Triton off the coast of St Ives.

Safety fuse

In 1831 William Bickford, an English merchant and a Methodist, originally from Ashburton, Devon, moved to the heart of the Cornish mining district near Camborne; where at Tuckingmill he developed the first practical and reliable means for igniting gunpowder when mining, the "Safety Fuze".

Sharp's Brewery

Orchard Cider (4.5% alcohol by volume) is a Cornish kegged cider manufactured in collaboration with Cornish Orchards in Duloe.

Shōji Hamada

Having spent three years in St Ives with Bernard Leach, he returned to Japan in 1923 and eventually established his workshop in Mashiko, about 100 km north-east of Tokyo.

St Just in Penwith

In summer it is served by the route 300 open-top bus, to Penzance via St Ives or Lands End.

Strawberry Marshmallow

:Ana is an eleven-year-old girl who originally came from Cornwall, England, five years before the series, but seems to have forgotten how to speak English.

The Wrigley Sisters

The success of this album moved them into the UK folk circuit but this proved arduous (Cornwall to Middlesbrough in back-to-back gigs) and eventually they moved to Edinburgh after launching their second album The Watch Stone.

Viscount Launceston

The peerage title of Viscount Launceston, named for Launceston in Cornwall, has been twice created, each time for an individual connected with the British Royal Family.

Zelah

Zelah, Cornwall, village in Cornwall named after the Biblical Zelah


Andrew Climo

Following John Prescott's (then Deputy Prime Minister) policy to create directly elected English regional assemblies, Climo went on to edit The Case for Cornwall, again published by the Convention.

Andrew Parker

Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939), retired English military officer, first husband of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall

Annabel Vernon

Annie started rowing at Castle Dore Rowing Club at Golant in Cornwall when she was 17; influenced by her elder brother and father.

Ashburton, Devon

Saint Gudula Well and Cross in Old Totnes Road is probably named after St Gulval, also honoured at Gulval in Cornwall.

Bert Solomon

He was a member of the Cornwall rugby union team, which on 26 October 1908 won the Olympic silver medal for Great Britain.

Brian Shantry

Shantry played 13 Minor Counties matches for Dorset, with his final match for the county coming against Cornwall in 1985.

Brown podzolic

Thus they are common in Ireland, Scotland, Wales (where they occupy about 20% of the country) and western England, especially Devon, Cornwall and the Lake District.

Cape Cornwall

Cape Cornwall Mine, a tin mine on Cape Cornwall, operated intermittently between 1838 and 1883.

Cornish Pump

Cornish engine, a type of steam engine developed in Cornwall, England, mainly for pumping water from a mine.

Cornish Rebellion of 1497

The Cornish Rebellion of 1497 is the main inspiration for the name of Cornwall's Rugby League team, The Cornish Rebels

Cornish symbols

The original settlement of colonial Cornwall was established in 1784, by disbanded Loyalist soldiers, their families and other United Empire Loyalists--primarily from New York-- following the 1776 American Revolution.

Dan Rogerson

Born in Cornwall to an English father and Welsh mother, Rogerson went to Bodmin College (comprehensive school), then studied Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth.

Dicopper chloride trihydroxide

This rare mineral was first found, and later identified, in the Botallack mine in Cornwall, England.

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Surfing Tommies is a 2009 play by the Cornish author Alan M. Kent which follows the lives of three members of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on a journey from the mines of Cornwall to the fields of Flanders, where they learned to surf with South African troops.

Economy of Cornwall

There are many types of beer brewed in Cornwall, including Sharp's Brewery, Skinner's Brewery and St Austell Brewery.

Edwin Dingle

Edwin John Dingle (6 April 1881, Cornwall – 27 January 1972) was an English journalist, author and founder of the Institute of Mentalphysics in California, US.

Emily Hobhouse

Born in St Ives, near Liskeard in Cornwall, she was the daughter of Caroline (née Trelawny) and Reginald Hobhouse, an Anglican rector and the first Archdeacon of Bodmin.

Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act

Both sides of the Ontario-Quebec border are highly populated with major population centres on both sides - Ottawa and Cornwall on the Ontario side, and Montreal and Hull on the Quebec side.

Farm Boy

The company started in December 1981, with its first store in Cornwall, Ontario.

Fumaria occidentalis

Fumaria occidentalis, the western ramping-fumitory, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Fumaria that is endemic to Cornwall.

Hangable Auto Bulb

The records are influenced by the early EPs of fellow Cornish producer Plug (Luke Vibert), as well as other Drum and bass movements of the day.

Hannibal Gamon

Gamon was instituted to the rectory of Mawgan-in-Pyder, on the north coast of Cornwall, on 11 February 1619, on presentation of Elizabeth Peter, the patroness for that turn, on the assignment of Sir John Arundell, knight, the owner of the advowson.

Jane Gregory

At the age of seven she started to learn to ride, going weekly to a riding centre near her home in Cornwall.

John Denison-Pender, 2nd Baron Pender

Denison-Pender ran C&W services during the war years and it was some feat that it remained undisrupted during that time, despite numerous setbacks including the Electra House HQ (London), Brentwood wireless station, the Moorgate-Porthcurno landlines and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (Cornwall) all receiving direct hits in 1940 and up to 1945.

Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company

Schlitz on died May 7, 1875 while returning from a visit to Germany; his ship hit a rock near Land's End, Cornwall, and sank.

Liber Exoniensis

It contains a variety of administrative materials concerning the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire.

Marcus Ervine-Andrews

Ervine-Andrews attempted to return home to his native County Cavan after the war, but was driven out by local members of the IRA and later settled in Cornwall.

Matthew Montagu, 4th Baron Rokeby

He represented the Cornish constituencies of Bossiney (1786–90), Tregony (1790–95) and St Germans (1806–12) in the British Parliament and succeeded his brother as 4th Baron Rokeby in 1829.

Newquay Zoo

2009 – the old wildlfe and hedgehog hospital section refurbished as a Native Wildlife Centre with Harvest mouse and displays on heathland by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust to match the Sand lizard section.

Packet Newspapers

The earliest, founded in 1801, was the Cornwall Gazette & Falmouth Packet, which lasted under that title for less than two years when the proprietor, one Thomas Flindell (1767-1824), was imprisoned for debt.

Penrose Methodist Chapel

The Methodist societies established by William O’Bryan (1778-1868) became known as the Bible Christians, and the first formed at Launcells and Shebbear along the Devon and Cornwall border largely on agricultural land.

Protea eximia

This versatility has resulted in it being brought into bloom outside as far north as the coast of Cornwall in the United Kingdom.

Rugby league in Cornwall

The first rugby league matches to take place in Cornwall were a series of exhibition matches between Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers which took place on three consecutive evenings in June 1962.

Rumsey Hall School

Founded in 1900 by Lillias Rumsey Sanford (1850–1940) as an all-boys school in Seneca Falls, New York, Rumsey Hall School moved to Cornwall, Connecticut in 1906 and then to its current location in 1949, at which point it became coeducational.

Sax Impey

Sax Impey currently lives and works in St Ives, Cornwall, occupying one of the prestigious Porthmeor Studios continuing in the tradition of Patrick Heron, Ben Nicholson and other recognized artists.

Second Cornish Uprising of 1497

Warbeck proclaimed that he would put a stop to extortionate taxes levied to help fight a war against Scotland and was warmly welcomed in Cornwall.

Skywave

In June and July 1923, Guglielmo Marconi's transmissions were completed during nights on 97 meters from Poldhu Wireless Station, Cornwall, to his yacht Ellette in the Cape Verde Islands.

SS Rushen Castle

Constructed in the yards of Vickers Sons, and Maxim Ltd at Barrow-in-Furness in 1898, Duke of Cornwall had a tonnage of 1724 GRT.

St Piran's Day

Dan Rogerson MP said of the 2012 event "The aim is to increase understanding of Cornwall’s Celtic heritage and culture in order to inform future debates on devolution, identity and government policy... and we are aiming to go bigger and better next year."

Starvation

In the English county of Cornwall in 1671, John Trehenban from St Columb Major was condemned to be starved to death in a cage at Castle An Dinas for the murder of two girls.

The 7.30 Report

Current reporters include political editor Heather Ewart, together with Deborah Cornwall, Greg Hoy, Mark Willacy, Michael Brissenden, Murray McLaughlin, Mary Gearin, Mike Sexton, John Taylor, Peter McCutcheon, Paul Lockyer, Matt Peacock, Lisa Whitehead, Natasha Johnson, David Mark, Genevieve Hussey, Mark Bannerman and Jonathan Harley.

The Veitch Memorial Medal

Michael Nelson for his outstanding practical work over many years in the restoration of the Lost Gardens of Heligan, one of Cornwall's best-known tourist attractions.

There is a Tavern in the Town

The song first appeared in the 1883 edition of William H. Hill’s Student Songs and may trace its origins to a traditional miners’ song from Cornwall in the United Kingdom.

Transatlantic crossing

Transatlantic radio communication was first accomplished on December 12, 1901 by Guglielmo Marconi who, using a temporary receiving station at Signal Hill, Newfoundland, received a Morse code signal representing the letter "S" sent from Poldhu, in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Vermont Frost Heaves

The formation of the team was announced in December, 2005 by founding owner Alexander Wolff, a Cornwall, Vermont resident and writer for Sports Illustrated.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

At the suggestion of the College's Principal Hubert Wellington, she moved to St Ives, Cornwall, in 1940, near to where a group of Hampstead-based modernists had settled, at Carbis Bay, to escape the war.This was a pivotal moment in her life.