* Weatherhill, Craig ( 1995 ) Cornish Place Names & Language.

The former post office in Alma Place is now known as the Cornish Studies Centre: also housed there is the collection of Tregellas Tapestries which depict the history of Cornwall in embroidery.

Probably born in South Wales, he primarily ministered to the Britons of Devon ( Dewnans ) and Cornwall ( Kernow ), where he is associated with monasteries at Padstow, which is named after him ( Pedroc-stowe, or ' Petrock's Place ') and which appears to have been his earliest major cult centre, and Bodmin, which became the major centre for his veneration when his relics were moved there in the later ninth century, Bodmin monastery becoming one of the wealthiest Cornish foundations by the eleventh century.

* Place, based on the Cornish word plas meaning Mansion

Lambourne made a wager he would obtain an introduction to a certain young lady under the steward Foster's charge at Cumnor Place, seat of the Earl of Leicester, and the Cornish stranger begged permission to accompany him.

Tallentire means " land ( or world )' s end " in old Cumbrian though the Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names describes the name as Cornish.

Bodmin is one of the oldest towns in Cornwall, and the only large Cornish settlement recorded in the Domesday Book of the late 11th century.

It was clearly unpopular in the parishes of Devon and Cornwall where, along with severe social problems, its introduction was one of the causes of the " commotions ", or rebellions in the summer of that year, partly because many Cornish people lacked sufficient English to understand it ,.

The Cornish Nationalist Party ( CNP ),, was a political party in the United Kingdom, led by Dr James Whetter which campaigned for independence for Cornwall.

The CNP worked to preserve the identity of Cornwall and improve its economy, and encouraged links with Cornish people overseas and with other regions which have distinct identities.

Today, the Cornish Nationalist Party is seen as more of a pressure group as they do not put up candidates for any elections, although their visibility and influence within Cornwall is negligible.

Mebyon Kernow ( MK ; Cornish for Sons of Cornwall ) is a left-of-centre political party in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

It primarily campaigns for devolution to Cornwall in the form of a Cornish Assembly, as well as social democracy and environmental protection.

In less than two years, it had collected signatures from over 50, 000 people, of whom 41 650 were resident in Cornwall, which is about 10 percent of the total Cornish electorate.

In August 2008 MK deputy leader, Conan Jenkin, expressed Mebyon Kernow's support for a proposed legal challenge by Cornwall 2000 over the UK Government's exclusion of the Cornish from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

Saint Piran or Perran ( traditionally in Cornwall, saints are simply named, without this title ) () is an early 6th century Cornish abbot and saint, supposedly of Irish origin.

The 14th century ' Life of Saint Piran ', probably written at Exeter Cathedral, is a complete copy of an earlier Irish life of Saint Ciarán of Saighir, with different parentage and a different ending that takes into account Piran's works in Cornwall, and especially details of his death and the movements of his Cornish shrine ; thus " excising the passages which speak of his burial at Saighir " ( Doble ).

In Cornwall at the time, many of the people could only speak the Cornish language, so the uniform English Bibles and church services were not understood by many.

Alternative proposals for English regional government have stalled, following a poorly received referendum on devolved government for the North East of England, which had hitherto been considered the region most in favour of the idea, with the exception of Cornwall, where there is widespread support for a Cornish Assembly, including all five Cornish MPs.

Two sets of accents are spoken in the West Country, Cornish ( primarily in South Cornwall ) and West Country ( the counties of Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Dorset ( Not so much in east Dorset ), Wiltshire ( again, less so in eastern Wiltshire ), and also in East Cornwall ).

Cornish is the adjective and demonym associated with Cornwall, the most southwesterly part of the United Kingdom.

On 7 September 1497, Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay, near Land's End, in Cornwall hoping to capitalise on the Cornish people's resentment in the aftermath of their uprising only three months earlier.

The Cornish Rex is a genetic mutation that originated from a litter of kittens born in the 1950s on a farm in Cornwall, UK ; hence the first part of the breed's name.

Cornish chough ( P. p. pyrrhocorax ) flying in west Cornwall

Traditionally Cornish people refer to the Duke of Cornwall in the Loyal Toast, much like the Duke of Normandy in the Channel Islands.

The battle is also considered by some to have begun the differentiation of Welsh and Cornish into two separate languages, by cutting off the Britons in Wales from those in Devon and Cornwall, by land.

Over eleven months members of the Cornish Stannary removed 18 signs and a letter was sent to English Heritage saying " The signs have been confiscated and held as evidence of English cultural aggression in Cornwall.

In 2011 Conservative MP George Eustice stated that Cornish heritage " is not English " and that there is " a growing feeling that Cornwall should have its own heritage organisation, taking over from English Heritage.

* The Cornish Pasty by Stephen Hall, Agre Books, Nettlecombe, UK, 2001 ISBN 0-9538000-4-0

Among important articles by Williams Cornish one might include the following: "' Linguistically sound principles ': the case against Kernewek Kemmyn ", Cornish Studies, 4, ( 1997 ); " Pre-occlusion in Cornish ", Studia Celtica 32 ( 1998 ); " Indirect Statement in Cornish and Breton ", Cornish Studies 6, ( 1998 ); " Saint in Cornish ", Cornish Studies 7 ( 1999 ) and the review, "' A modern and scholarly Cornish-English dictionary ': Ken George ’ s Gerlyver Kernewek Kemmyn ( 1993 )", Cornish Studies, 9 ( 2001 ).

More recently he won first prize for Cornish poetry in the Cornish Gorsedd in 1997, 1998 and 1999.

* Clappya Kernowek: an introduction to Unified Cornish Revised ( Agan Tavas, Portreath 1997, ISBN 1-901409-01-5 )

It received a further boost when Paul Dunbar and Ken George claimed in their book Cornish for the 21st Century, published in 1997, that criticisms of this system were without foundation, as by that time Kernewek Kemmyn was very widely used-a large majority of people sitting examinations in the Cornish language were choosing to be examined in Kernewek Kemmyn.

: Blight's Cornish Crosses ; Penzance: Oakmagic Publications, 1997 )

* G. H. Doble ( 1935 ) " Saint Meriadoc, Patron of Camborne " ( Cornish Saints Series ; n ° 34 ) in: The Saints of Cornwall ; Part 1: Saints of the Land ’ s End District, Truro ( 1960 ), reissued by Llanerch, Felinfach, 1997.

Research has shown that knowledge about the competitors ’ strategies is very important to help distinguish failures from the successes in product software ( Cornish “ Product ”, 1997 ).

Ciji Ware * set her 1997 novel A Cottage by the Sea on the Cornish coast.

) was a commemorative march which retraced the original route of the Cornish from St. Keverne to Blackheath, London, to celebrate the Quincentennial — 500th anniversary — of the Cornish Rebellion.

A statue depicting the Cornish leaders, " Michael An Gof " and Thomas Flamank was unveiled at An Gof's village of St. Keverne and a commemorative plaque was also unveiled on Blackheath common.

* The Fugger family is referenced frequently in Robertson Davies ' What's Bred in the Bone ( the second volume in " The Cornish Trilogy ").

His best-seller was his first volume of autobiography A Cornish Childhood, first published by Jonathan Cape in 1942, that has gone on to sell nearly half a million copies worldwide.

Cornish worthies: sketches of some eminent Cornish men and families, volume 2 ( London: E. Stock, 1884 ) pp. 243 – 278.

* D. R. Shackleton Bailey in volume six of the Loeb classical library: Gaius Valerius Catullus, Tibullus and Pervigilium veneris, G. P. Goold, editor, translated by Francis Warre Cornish, John Percival Postgate, John William Mackail, second edition, revised ( Harvard University Press, 1988 )

The first five titles, Worzel Gummidge, Cornish Adventure, The Cuckoo Clock, Garram the Hunter and Smokey were published in the three horizontal stripes company livery of the rest of the Penguin output, a practice abandoned after the ninth volume when full-bleed colour illustrated covers were introduced, a fact that heralded the much greater design freedom of the Puffin series over the rest of Penguin's books.

Cornish Worthies, volume 1 pp. 159 – 166 ( London: E. Stock, 1884 ).