After defeating the Army of Sir William Waller at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, King Charles marched west in pursuit of the Parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex, who was invading the Royalist stronghold of Cornwall.

This setback for Parliament in Cornwall, and the last major victory for the Royalists, was reversed by Sir Thomas Fairfax leading the New Model Army at or near Tresillian Bridge, close to Truro on 12 March 1645.

In Europe, the major source for tin was Great Britain's deposits of ore in Cornwall, which were traded as far as Phoenicia in the Eastern Mediterranean.

It was formerly the county town of Cornwall until the Crown Courts moved to Truro which is also the administrative centre ( before 1835 the county town was Launceston ).

Bodmin was in the administrative North Cornwall District until local government reorganisation in 2009 abolished the District ( see also Politics of Cornwall # Cornwall Council ).

In the 15th century the Norman church of St Petroc was largely rebuilt and stands as one of the largest churches in Cornwall ( the largest after the cathedral at Truro ).

The existing church building is dated 1469-72 and was until the building of Truro Cathedral the largest church in Cornwall.

It was established in 1878, two years after the Diocese of Truro was created, by splitting the Archdeaconry of Cornwall.

St. Petroc's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School Athelstan Park, Bodmin, Cornwall was given this title in September 1990 after the amalgamation of St. Petroc's Infant School and St. Petroc's Junior School.

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.

A son, Henry, Duke of Cornwall, was born on New Year's Day 1511.

As the eldest living son of the sovereign, Charles automatically gained several titles ( including Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay ), and subsequently was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in November 1616.

West Cornwall, around Mount's Bay, was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean During the first millennium BC trade became more organised, first with the Phoenicians, who settled Gades ( Cadiz ) around 1100 BC, and later with the Greeks, who had settled Massilia ( Marseilles ) and Narbo ( Narbonne ) around 600 BC.

Although not very much is known about Allen's childhood, the town of Cornwall was frontier territory in the 1740s.

The expansion of the iron works was apparently costly to Allen ; he was forced to sell off portions of the Cornwall property to raise funds, and eventually sold half of his interest in the works to his brother Heman.

In 1831 he was elected member for St Ives in Cornwall, after which he was returned for Lincoln in 1832, and sat in Parliament for that city for nine years.

Through Cornwall, Gardner was introduced to many locals, whom he soon befriended, including members of the Senoi and Malay peoples.

Cornwall was however an unorthodox Muslim, and his interest in local peoples included their magical and spiritual beliefs, to which he also introduced Gardner, who took a particular interest in the kris, a ritual knife with magical uses.

Types of franchise courts included Courts Baron, Courts Leet, merchant courts, and the Stannary Courts which dealt with disputes involving the tin miners of Cornwall.

An amendment to the bill by Lord Teverson that would have ensured that " all parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly must be included in constituencies that are wholly in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly " was defeated by 250 to 221 votes in the House of Lords with 95 % of the aforementioned parties rejecting it.

The Inquisitio Eliensis is a record of the lands of Ely Abbey ; and the Exon Domesday ( so called from the preservation of the volume at Exeter ), which covers Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire ( however only one manor of Wiltshire is included and parts of Devon, Dorset and Somerset are also wanting ) also all contain the full details supplied by the original returns.

Bossiney ( which included Trevena ) was held from the monks of Bodmin by the Earl of Cornwall: there was land for 6 ploughs and of pasture ( before the Conquest it had been held from the monks by Alfwy ).

Alongside the ledger, which included the price of the pasty in Plymouth, Devon in 1509, the discovery sparked a controversy between the neighbouring counties of Devon and Cornwall as to the origin of the dish.

Another version is Thomas Hardy's The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse, a one act play which was published in 1923 ( the book included an imaginary drawing of the castle at the period ).

This included the Cornwall Estate, between the Borough Gardens and the Great Western Railway, from 1876 and the Prince of Wales Estate, centred on Prince of Wales Road, from 1880.

Her maternal uncles included Henry III of England and Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall.

It is often defined to encompass the historic counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, and the City and County of Bristol, while the counties of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire are also often included.

It was centred in the area later known as Devon, but included Cornwall and parts of Somerset and Dorset, its eastern boundary changing over time.

Thus Dumnonia would have included later Cornwall, Devon, most of Somerset and most of Dorset.

The West Cornwall Railway Act included a clause that it would be converted to broad gauge once it had been connected to another broad gauge line, but the company could not raise the funds to do so.

Their tours have often included unusual locations such as the Scillonian Club on the Isles of Scilly, Grasmere Village Hall, the Czech Embassy in London and Carnglaze Caverns in Cornwall.

* The element Titanium is discovered included in ilmenite in Cornwall, England, by local amateur geologist Rev.

The district covered all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which included an area of land to the east that fell outside the peninsula, being the most westerly district on mainland England.

This region encompasses the city of Bristol and the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, while Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Wiltshire are usually also included, although the northern and eastern boundaries of the area are hard to define and historically Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, which were also part of Wessex, were, and sometimes still are included.

The City of Cornwall and the sovereign Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne are included in the census division, but are politically separated from Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties.

Pirate FM's original jingles were sung by JAM productions, Dallas in 1992, which included the famous " Tamar Bridges " Cornwall theme tune, which used to be played after midnight and before 6am every day.

His wife's property included the borough of St Mawes in Cornwall, and Nugent sat for that constituency from 1741 to 1754, after which date he represented Bristol until 1774, when he returned to St Mawes.

The name was given at an unknown date to a portion of Cornwall that included several members of the Dudley family.

Cornwall was part of the territory of the tribe of the Dumnonii which included Devon and parts of Somerset.

Between 1013-1035 the Kingdom of Cornwall, Wales, much of Scotland and Ireland were not included in the territories of King Canute the Great.