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.
Georgian harbour village east of St Austell, still used as a working port.
Small fishing village on Mevagissey Bay, with a sheltered beach at low tide.
Former harbour village on the south coast, now a quiet base for coastal walks.
North-coast village in a steep valley, with a wide sandy beach at the stream mouth.
Cornwall's only city: cathedral, river port, and the administrative centre of the Duchy.
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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