A guide to Kernow
Three hundred miles of coastline. A thousand years of working harbours. Every town, every beach, every tor, written down properly.
Places
From Saltash on the Tamar to the granite tip at Sennen: a deep guide to every place worth knowing in Cornwall.
Atlantic surf town on the north coast, built around a working harbour.
A working harbour town turned art colony, built into a granite bay on the Atlantic side.
A working fishing harbour at the mouth of the Camel estuary, still dependent on the tide.
Deep-water port on the Fal: the third-deepest natural harbour in the world.
Market town at the western end of the railway: gateway to Mount's Bay.
Things to know
A reference layer for the things tourist guides leave out: language, history, geology, the working life of the county.
Kernewek, near-extinct in the 18th century, recovered through the 20th. A working introduction with pronunciation.
Bronze-age trade, Brittonic kingdoms, tin and copper, the long industrial decline, the tourism century.
Granite tors, drowned valleys, two coastlines, one moor. Why Cornwall looks the way it does.
Cornwall isn’t a county in any ordinary sense. It is a Celtic nation administered as English, a peninsula nearly an island, with its own language, its own flag, and a coastline longer than the country it is officially part of.
This site is an attempt to write that down properly, slowly, and with care.
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