The culture of Cornwall (Cornish: Gonisogeth Kernow) forms part of the culture of the United Kingdom, but has distinct customs, traditions and peculiarities...
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though it retained its own culture. The remainder of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period were relatively settled, with Cornwall developing its tin mining...
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Cornish mythology (redirect from Folklore of Cornwall)
folk tradition and mythology of the Cornish people. It consists partly of folk traditions developed in Cornwall and partly of traditions developed by Britons...
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Sport in Cornwall includes two sports not found elsewhere in the world, except in areas influenced by Cornish culture i.e. the Cornish forms of wrestling...
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Cornwall had fallen under the control of Wessex, but it kept its own culture. In 1337, the title Duke of Cornwall was created by the English monarchy,...
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family, spoken in Cornwall Cornish people Cornish Americans Cornish Australians Cornish Canadians Cornish diaspora Culture of Cornwall Cornish may also...
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Pixie (category Culture of Cornwall)
pisky, pixy, pixi, pizkie, piskie, or pigsie in parts of Cornwall and Devon) is a mythical creature of British folklore. Pixies are speculated to be particularly...
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Hiraeth (category Culture of Cornwall)
University of Wales Dictionary, s.v. 'hiraeth' Williams, Robert (1865). Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in...
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Spriggan (category Culture of Cornwall)
Cornish folklore. Spriggans are particularly associated with West Penwith in Cornwall. Spriggan is a dialect word, pronounced with the grapheme <gg> as /d͡ʒ/...
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Cornwall is a Celtic nation with a long musical history. Strengthened by a series of 20th century revivals, traditional folk music has a popular following...
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culture. Etymology of "Cornwall" Common English name(s): Cornwall Common endonym(s): Kernow Adjectival(s): Cornish Demonym(s): Cornish Geography of Cornwall...
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Gorsedh Kernow (redirect from Bard of Cornwall)
Cornish organisation, based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, which exists to maintain the national Celtic spirit of Cornwall. It is based on the Welsh-based...
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Poldark (category Culture of Cornwall)
the series and published The Black Moon in 1973. Each of the novels is subtitled A Novel of Cornwall. In a preface to The Black Moon, Graham explained his...
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Bro Goth agan Tasow (category Culture of Cornwall)
Cornish people.[citation needed] Cornwall portal List of topics related to Cornwall Cornish language Culture of Cornwall Gorseth Kernow See Help:IPA, Standard...
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Nickanan Night (category Culture of Cornwall)
Sometimes called roguery night in West Cornwall, England, UK, this event was an excuse for local youths to undertake acts of minor vandalism and play practical...
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Devon (redirect from Culture of Devon)
and Cornwall to the west. The city of Plymouth is the largest settlement, and the city of Exeter is the county town. The county has an area of 2,590 sq mi...
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Bard (category Culture of Cornwall)
In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by...
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"Mermaid of Zennor". 2015 saw the premier of "The Mermaid of Zennor" by Philip Harper, a work for brass band. Commissioned for the Cornwall Youth Brass...
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Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, situated where the provinces of Ontario and Quebec and the U.S. state of New York converge. It is the seat...
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Newlyn School (redirect from Newlyn School of Painting)
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...
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The Bolitho novels (redirect from Band of Brothers (novel))
Reeman's novels. Bolitho was born in 1756 in Falmouth, Cornwall, in Great Britain, the second son of a prestigious naval family. He joined the navy in 1768...
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Oggy Oggy Oggy (category Culture of Cornwall)
times. The phrase may be of Cornish origin, possibly deriving from the Cornish language (a pasty is known in Devon and Cornwall as an Oggie, possibly deriving...
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Queen Camilla (redirect from Duchess of Cornwall Camilla)
accession, she was known as the Duchess of Cornwall. On 8 September 2022, Charles became king upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, with Camilla...
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Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek (category Culture of Cornwall)
running of Cornish classes throughout Cornwall and beyond. It maintains links with a wide range of other cultural organisations both in Cornwall and beyond...
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Nos lowen (category Culture of Cornwall)
with the introduction of the Standard Written Cornish, the spelling nos lowen is now used. Cornwall portal Cèilidh Culture of Cornwall Feis Fest noz Noson...
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proposed as part of a five-year culture strategy agreed upon by Cornwall Council's cabinet in January 2012. The National Theatre of Cornwall will be a collaboration...
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Tom Bawcock (category Culture of Cornwall)
sky. Robert Morton Nance, Old Cornwall, 1927 Tom Bawcock is a legendary character from the village of Mousehole, Cornwall, England. He appears to have...
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Cornish people (redirect from People from Cornwall)
People of Cornwall. cornwall.gov.uk, the website of Cornwall Council cornishculture.co.uk, an online guide to Cornish Celtic culture Portal: Cornwall...
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Cornish symbols (category Culture of Cornwall)
associated with Cornwall, a region which has disputed constitutional status within the United Kingdom (confer the Constitutional status of Cornwall). Saint Piran's...
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The White Rose (song) (category Culture of Cornwall)
lily white rose. The Real Heroes Are Dead - New Yorker, 2002-02-11 issue Cornwall portal Read the sheet music from the An-Daras website Hear the song (from...
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