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51 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.

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

Avena nuda

Avena nuda (called in Cornwall "pilez") was grown in Cornwall in the 18th century.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 Pasty Association

The Cornish Pasty Association is a British trade association, based in Cornwall.

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

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

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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 was later renamed Cornwall by the British for the Duke of Cornwall, by proclamation of Prince George, and in 1834 the town became one of the first incorporated municipalities in the British colony of Upper Canada.

Euchre

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

Euchre game variations

The Duchy of Cornwall lays claim to the origin of the Benny in Euchre, its usage being exported from Cornwall to the USA, Australia and Canada by emigrant Cornish miners in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Farm Boy

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

Fernand Guindon

In deference to his lengthy public service, the largest park in the west end of the City of Cornwall, Ontario was named in his honour while he was still an MPP.

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.

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.

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.

John de Bayeux

In 1218 he paid a relief of £100 and took possession of the family estates in Lincolnshire, and in the same year was judge itinerant for the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, along with "J. Bathon. et Glascon. Episc.."

Kanda Bongo Man

On July, 2005, he performed at the LIVE 8: Africa Calling concert in Cornwall.

Lapeer County, Michigan

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

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.

Mabe

Mabe, Cornwall, a village and civil parish in west Cornwall, United Kingdom

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.

Nick Nieland

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

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.

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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.

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.

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".

Sheryll Murray

Born Sheryll Hickman at Millbrook, Cornwall, to Cornish parents, her mother's family lived at Millbrook and her father's family originated from Calstock.

SS Dwinsk

Six of the lifeboats were rescued by other ships; the seventh lifeboat, in the charge of the Second Officer, Joseph William Coppin (born 1881, St Neot, Cornwall), with 22 men aboard was never heard from again.

St Gluvias

The village is now a suburb on the northern edge of Penryn which is situated two miles northwest of Falmouth.

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.

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.

William Bickford-Smith

His grandfather William Bickford had developed a method of making mining fuses using rope which was safer than previous methods and with Smith's father had established a factory at Tuckingmill, Cornwall.

Yn Chruinnaght

Whereas Cruinnaght Vanninagh Ashoonagh had been a festival only of Manx culture, Mona Douglas conceived Yn Chruinnaght in its modern form as an inter-Celtic festival, giving an opportunity for the six Celtic nations of the Isle of Man, Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall to participate.

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

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.

Bodmin Airfield

In keeping with the original ideals and dreams of its creator, Mike Robertson, Cornwall Flying Club operates as a non-profit organisation, to keep costs down to the end user.

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).

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.

Coombe Junction Halt railway station

Coombe Junction Halt railway station serves the villages of Coombe and Lamellion near Liskeard, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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

Cornwall, Prince Edward Island

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

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.

Cushendun

Cushendun village, was designed for Ronald McNeill, the Conservative MP and author later Lord Cushendun in the style of a Cornish village by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis.

Cuthbert Mayne

The few missionaries who arrived from Douai, once their existence was learned by agents of Elizabeth I's government, were then looked upon as a large force of papal agents meant to overthrow the Queen.The authorities began a systematic search in June 1576, when the Bishop of Exeter William Broadbridge came to the area in Cornwall.

Dicopper chloride trihydroxide

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

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.

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.

Harry Manson

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

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.

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.

John Blenkinsop

Richard Trevithick of Cornwall had experimented with various models of steam locomotive, and in 1805 his work had culminated in an engine for the Wylam Colliery.

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.

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.

Malcolm Burn

Born in Cornwall, Ontario, Burn grew up in Deep River, Ontario and became lead singer/keyboardist for the 1980s Canadian band Boys Brigade.

Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton

Apart from the many valuable manors inherited from her father she also inherited the patronage of the Rolle pocket borough of Callington in Cornwall, and nominated in 1761 as its MP her Devon agent Richard Stevens (1702-1776), of Winscott, in the parish of Peters Marland, adjacent to Petrockstowe, who was the brother-in-law of Margaret's distant, but locally resident, cousin Henry Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1708-1750) of Stevenstone.

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.

No. 61 Squadron RAF

It was detached from its base in Rutland to St Eval in Cornwall, and on the very first occasion that it operated from there, 17 July, a crew captained by Flight Lieutenant PR Casement (Lancaster I R5724) became the first Bomber Command crew to bring back irrefutable evidence that they had destroyed a U-boat at sea, in the form of a photograph showing the U-boat crew in the water swimming away from their sinking vessel.

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.

Patrick Coombe

He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Cornwall.

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.

Railtour

Locations – such as Carne Point at Fowey, Cornwall – which have not seen passenger trains for several decades, or locations that have never had a public passenger service – such as the MOD depot at Long Marston – can be traversed by such trains.

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.

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.

Stephen Perrin

From 1991 to 2005, he represented the county in 26 Trophy matches, the last of which came against Cornwall.

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.

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.