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50 unusual facts about Cornwall


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.

Adrian Goldsmith

On 10 December 1941, Goldsmith married Dorothea Rosemary Britton in a ceremony at Tuckingmill, Cornwall.

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.

Arthur's Stone

Arthur stone (more properly, Artognou stone), a find discovered in 1998 in a sixth-century archaeological context from the Tintagel Castle, in Cornwall

Atlantic FM

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

Bewnans Ke

In Cornwall, he soon comes into conflict with the king, Teudar, but is eventually given land near the king's favourite hunting grounds in Kea parish.

Britton Bath Osler

His father, Featherstone Lake Osler (1805-1895), the son of a shipowner at Falmouth, Cornwall, was a former Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and served on H.M.S. Victory.

Camborne, British Columbia

The name is derived from that of the mining town of Camborne, Cornwall in England, or to the School of Mines in that town, which was a mining college of the time (1902).

Castle Downs

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

Cornubia

A geologists' name for a former island which existed in the Mesozoic and during continental drift and orogeny became an area of land in or around Cornwall.

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

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.

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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.

Diogo Antônio Feijó

The Brazilian deputies were unsuccessful, and Feijó, with five others, left Lisboa secretly for Falmouth, where, on 22 October 1822, they published a manifesto explaining their conduct.

Dod Procter

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

Euchre

Also, it may have been introduced by immigrants from Cornwall, England, where it remains a popular game.

Farm Boy

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

Feock

Feock, Cornwall, a village and civil parish south of Truro in Cornwall, United Kingdom

Grady McWhiney

McWhiney and Forrest McDonald were the authors of the "Celtic Thesis," which holds that most Southerners were of Celtic ancestry (as opposed to Anglo-Saxon), and that all groups he declared to be "Celtic" (Scots-Irish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish) were descended from warlike herdsmen, in contrast to the peaceful farmers who predominated in England.

Gudwal

Afterwards he led a party of 188 monks across the sea to Cornwall, where they were hospitably received by Mevor, a prince of the country, and Gudwal founded a monastery not far off (according to the Bollandists, in Devon).

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.

Ida Levin

She also regularly plays in Open Chamber Music in Cornwall, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and Houston Da Camera.

James Rusbridger

He was born in Jamaica, son of Gordon Rusbridger an Army colonel, and died in Tremorebridge, Cornwall.

Lapeer County, Michigan

The first settler in Lapeer was Alvin N. Hart, who was born in Cornwall, Connecticut on February 11, 1804.

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.

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.

Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor

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

Maurice Southgate

Fortunately, Southgate was able to swim away, being picked up by another vessel which later docked in Falmouth, Cornwall.

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.

Nick Nieland

Dr Nicholas ("Nick") Nieland (born 31 January 1972 in Truro, Cornwall) is a British javelin thrower.

Norman Potter

Potter died of a heart attack in 1995 while bicycling in Falmouth.

North Isles

These also happen to be the most northerly British territorial claims currently in existence, since Canadian independence, in contradistinction to those of Cornwall, which only represent the southernmost parts of the UK, and not those of British overseas territories, such as the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and British Antarctic Territory.

Olisipo

The city came to be very prosperous through suppression of piracy and technological advances, which allowed a boom in the trade with the newly Roman Provinces of Britannia (particularly Cornwall) and the Rhine, and through the introduction of Roman culture to the tribes living by the river Tagus in the interior of Hispania.

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.

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McCourt played his entire, brief career with Cornwall of the Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) – save for a two-game stint with the Montreal Shamrocks of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association in 1907 – and blossomed into stardom in his final two seasons.

Perranarworthal

Perranarworthal parish is bordered on the north by Kea parish, on the east by Restronguet Creek and Mylor parish, on the south by St Gluvias and Stithians parishes and on the west by Gwennap parish.

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.

Rancho Novato

Francis C. DeLong (June 10, 1808, Cornwall, Vermont – February 11, 1885, Novato) came to California in 1850, and opened a grocery store in San Francisco.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two Bridges, Cornwall

It is situated four miles (6 km) west-southwest of Launceston at the point where the A30 trunk road crosses the River Inny.

Valmouth

The town's name is a parody of actual seaside towns in the southwest peninsula of Britain, such as Falmouth, Dartmouth, Teignmouth, Exmouth and Weymouth.


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.

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.

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).

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.

Cornish cuisine

Cornwall has influenced and been influenced by other British cuisine, as well as having similarities with the cuisine of its neighbour, Devon.

Cornish Rebellion of 1497

The Crown decided to take the offensive and test the strength and resolve of the Cornish forces.

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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.

Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School

Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School was founded in 1806 by John Strachan as the Cornwall Grammar School.

Cornwall, Ontario

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

Cubert

The village is named after the Welsh missionary St Cubert who, as a companion of St Carantoc, brought the Christian faith to this part of Cornwall, and to whom the church is dedicated.

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.

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.

Frank Hutchens

Scholarships in composition are awarded annually in his name to students under 25, and his portrait, by Cornish painter Stanhope Forbes, is held by the Sydney Conservatorium to which he devoted so much of his working life.

Fumaria occidentalis

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

George Perry-Smith

Perry-Smith then spent some time travelling around Europe before settling in Helford, Cornwall, where he opened Riverside, a restaurant with rooms.

Harry Manson

He played one further season with Cornwall, and subbed in a Stanley Cup challenge for the Ottawa Victorias.

Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715

Whetter, James (1995) "Jacobitism in Cornwall", in: Old Cornwall; Vol.

Jim Wearne

In spring 2002 at Castel Pendynas, Pendennis, Falmouth in Cornwall, Wearne was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd for services to Cornish Music in America (in Cornish: Rag gonys dhe Ylow Kernewek yn Ameryky) with the bardic name Canor Gwanethtyr - Singer of the Prairie.

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.

Lifton, Devon

Lifton is a village and civil parish in Devon, South West England near the confluence of the rivers Wolf and Lyd, 1¼ miles south of the A30 trunk road and very near the border between Devon and Cornwall.

Lyonesse

The Trevelyan family of Cornwall takes its coat of arms from a local legend, in which a man named Trevelyan escaped the inundation by riding a white horse.

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.

Mount Edgcumbe House

The country park, on the Rame Peninsula, is the earliest landscaped park in Cornwall and is very popular with walkers.

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.

Peril at End House

Transposed from Devon to Cornwall, the Majestic Hotel of the book is based on the Imperial Hotel in Torquay.

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.

Ronald Firbank

Valmouth (1919) is based on the lives of various people in a health resort on the West Coast of England; most of the inhabitants are centenarians, and some are older ("the last time I went to the play...was with Charles the Second and Louise de Querouaille, to see Betterton play Shylock").

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.

Sally Jones

She has presented a string of other TV and radio programmes, including several series of "On the Line", the BBC TV sports politics show, the daytime show "The Garden Party", real tennis documentaries for Channel 4, coverage of women's British Open golf (St Mellion, Cornwall), international tennis, women's rugby and NBA basketball (BBC TV), "Transworld Sport" (Channel 4) and international gymnastics (ITV).

Sasso Marconi

In 1902, Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal at Poldhu Cove, Cornwall, UK.

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.

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.

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.

Stephen Eva

He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Cornwall.

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.

Transport in Cornwall

Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick (who was developing high pressure stationary steam engines for Cornwall's industries) produced the world's first locomotive in 1802 by mounting an engine on wheels to run on rails.

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.