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  Encyclopedia article: Charlestown, Cornwall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although Charlestown is approximately 2 miles (3.2km) from St Austell town centre, if you walk between the two you see that they have grown into each other and there is scarcely a break between them.
Charlestown is popular with tourists who go to see the unspoiled architecture, paddle in the sea and visit the Charlestown Shipwreck, Rescue and Heritage Centre.
The turquoise/blue colour of the sea at Charlestown is due to particles of china clay in the water reflecting the light.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charlestown,_cornwall.htm   (405 words)

  
 Cornwall - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cornwall borders the county of Devon at the River Tamar.
Cornwall is also a duchy possessed by the Heir Apparent to the British throne as Duke of Cornwall.
Cornwall was the principal source of tin for the civilisations of the ancient Mediterranean, and at one time the Cornish were the world's foremost experts at mining.
open-encyclopedia.com /Cornwall   (1306 words)

  
 Cornwall
A political party, Mebyon Kernow, the MK, or 'Sons of Cornwall', has been formed in order to attempt to reassert Cornish independence, and although increasingly the flag of St. Piran is seen across Cornwall at protests and demonstrations, the party has not achieved significant success at the ballot box.
In 1841 there were nine hundred (division)s of Cornwall, East, Kerrier, Lesneweth, Penwith, Powder, Pydar, Stratton, Trigg and West.
Saint Piran is the more popular of the two; his emblem (a vertical white cross on a fl background) is recognised as the flag of Cornwall, and his day (March 5) is celebrated by Cornish people around the world.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/co/cornwall.html   (1011 words)

  
 The Family Name by Dr. Carl Enoch Hill - Pages 1 - 6
He was the father of Robert, who had a son named Robert, who was the father of Thomas of County Cornwall and William of Shropshire, of whom the last was the father of William, who had a son Thomas, who was the father of Thomas.
Joseph Hills of Charlestown, Mass., in 1638 came from Malden, England, with his first wife, Rose Dunster, by whom he was the father of Joseph, Rebecca, Amy, Mary, Hannah, Gershom, Mehitable, and John.
It appears that Richard Hill or Hills of Charlestown in 1638, who was probably the brother of the preceding emigrant Joseph, died without issue.
www.pitzer-legacy.com /TheFamilyName/Pages1-6.html   (1559 words)

  
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Yet of all the things that he did with his life, the one Baring-Gould himself valued most highly was the collection of the folk songs of Devon and Cornwall, a quest which started at a dinner table in Tavistock when Baring-Gould was already 54 years old and which was to last for 30 years.
We also find his love of old rogues like William Houghton, one-time smuggler, then Harbourmaster at Charlestown or John Woodrich, the flsmith who had deserted his wife and children to roam Britain in search of songs and seen the inside of several gaols in the process.
One of the most interesting discoveries in the manuscripts has been the confirmation that Baring-Gould entertained other collectors at Lewtrenchard and that song collecting was part of that entertainment when they visited him.
www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk /Articles.html   (6553 words)

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