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  Cornwall - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow or occasionally Curnow) is a county of England, the part of Great Britain's south-west peninsula that is west of the River Tamar, often known as the Cornish peninsula or plateau.
Cornwall is particularly known for its igneous outcrops, which include the granite of Bodmin Moor and the areas around Camborne and Land's End, and the dark green serpentine of the Lizard Peninsula.
Cornwall is one of the smaller counties by population and has around a fifth of the population of the smallest region of England.
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 Cornwall - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county at the extreme South-West of England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar.
Cornwall's population is 513,527, and population density 144 people per square kilometre, ranking it 40th and 41st respectively compared to the other 47 counties of England.
Cornwall has a relatively high level of population growth, however, at 11.2% in the 1980s and 5.3% in the 1990s, giving it the fifth highest population growth of the English counties.Office for National Statistics, 2001.
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 CORNWALL FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cornwall (Cornish: ''Kernow'') is a county on England's south west peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar.
Cornwall has a relatively high level of population growth, however, at 11.2% in the 1980s and 5.3% in the 1990s, giving it the fifth highest population growth of the English counties.
Cornwall is famous for clotted cream and many types of cider, these are also made in the neighbouring English counties.
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 Duke of Cornwall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The current Duke of Cornwall is Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of the current British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
Cornwall was the first dukedom ever conferred in the Kingdom of England, being created for Edward, the Black Prince, the eldest son of Edward III in 1336.
The current Duke received his dues at Launceston Castle in 1973, which included a pair of white gloves, a pair of greyhounds, a pound of pepper and cumin, a pair of gilt spurs, one hundred silver shillings, a bow, a spear and firewood.
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 Cornwall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cornwalls motto is "One And All"(Cornish: "Onan Hag Oll").
Cornwall is featured heavily in the beginning of The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley as the home of Igraine, wife of Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall.
Cornwall is well known for some of its unusual folk survivals such as the Padstow&8217;s Obby Oss, Helston&8217;s Furry Dance and Mummers Play&8217;s.
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 Cornwall xmpg.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cornwall (Cornish language : Kernow) is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England at the extreme South West England of England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar.
Cornwall is well known for its unusual folk survivals such as Mummers Play s, the Furry Dance in Helston, and Obby Oss in Padstow.
Cornwall's other county sport is Hurling the Silver Ball, a kind of medieval football played with a silver ball.
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 math lessons - Kingdom of Cornwall
It was known to the English of neighbouring Wessex as the kingdom of the West Welsh, later as Cornwall.
Its territory in the 5th century and the first half of the 6th century appears to have been the modern counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, and the Brythonic colony on the Continent later known as Brittany.
Legendary Dukes of Cornwall for the pseudohistoric rulers of Cornwall mentioned by Geoffrey of Monmouth
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 Cornwall - Gnorx.com, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Mebyon Kernow, the MK, or 'Sons of Cornwall', was formed in 1951 to attempt to assert some degree of autonomy (see Cornish nationalism); 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, although they do have some councillors.
In 2001 for the first time in the UK the inhabitants of Cornwall could record their ethnicity as Cornish on the national census and in 2004 the schools census in Cornwall carried a Cornish option as a subdivision of white British.
Cornwall is one of four UK regions that qualifies for poverty-related grants from the EU (European Social Fund).
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 History of Cornwall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cornwall and neighbouring Devon had large reserves of tin, which was mined extensively during the Bronze Age by people associated with the Beaker culture.
Cornwall now became attached to the Kingdom of England, although the amount of its autonomy from Saxon and Norman England is currently the subject of controversy and reevaluation.
Cornwall played a fairly significant role during the English Civil War, as it was a Royalist enclave in the generally Parliamentarian southwest.
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 Informat.io on Cornwall
Cornwall is the only area in Southern Britain to qualify for Objective One funding (GDP per capita for the region must be below 75% of the EU average).
Just under 7% of the population of Cornwall gave their ethnicity as Cornish in the last census, however, in a survey by Morgan Stanley 44% of the population considered themselves Cornish.
There are also many types of beers brewed in Cornwall — the St Austell brewery is the best-known — including a stout and there is some small scale production of wine, mead and cider.
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 Cornwall - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Image:StIvesHarbour Lifeboat.JPG Parliamentary representation for Cornwall is dominated by the Liberal Democrats.
Image:Flag of Cornwall.svg Saint Piran's Flag is regarded as the national flag of Cornwall and an emblem of the Cornish people.
Image:Brown Willy Bodmin Moor.jpg Cornwall's population is 513,527, and population density 144 people per square kilometre, ranking it 40th and 41st respectively compared to the other 47 counties of England.
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 Cornwall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow or occasionally Curnow) is a county of England's south-west peninsula, lying west of the River Tamar.
It is worthy of note that on many maps produced before the 18th century Cornwall was depicted as a nation of Great Britain; famous example are Gerardus Mercator's Atlas[5] (http://www.walkingtree.com/) and the famous Mappa Mundi.
Cornwall is famous for its pasties (a pastry dish- traditionally a Cornish Past contains meat and vegetables, often peppered), but saffron buns, Cornish Heavy (Hevva) Cake, Cornish fairings (biscuit), Cornish fudge and Cornish ice cream are also quite common.
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 HOME - Asclepiodotus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Asclepiodotus (Welsh language : Alyssglapitwlws) was a Roman Empire praetorian preƒect who re-established Roman rule in Britain ƒollowing the illegal rules oƒ Carausius and Allectus.
Geoƒƒrey oƒ Monmouth and the Wales chronicles establish Asclepiodotus as the Legendary DukesCornwallCornwall beƒore he became king oƒ the Britons.
In response to Asclepiodotus's acceptance oƒ these atrocities¸ Old King Cole ¸ Duke oƒ Colchester ¸ began a rebellion against the king's tyrannical rule.
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 Informat.io on List Of Topics Related To Cornwall
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This is a list of topics related to Cornwall, UK.
The Cornwall category contains a more comprehensive selection of Cornish articles.
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