They used similar methods to work cassiterite deposits in Cornwall and lead ore in the Pennines.

Many Newfoundland dialects are similar to the West Country dialects of West Country, England, particularly the city of Bristol and counties Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, while others resemble dialects of Ireland's southeast, particularly Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny and Cork.

The Duchy of Cornwall is a similar estate held in trust to meet the expenses of the monarch's eldest son.

The similar red-billed species, formerly particularly common in Cornwall, became known initially as " Cornish Chough " and then just " Chough ", the name transferring from one species to the other.

The similar Red-billed Chough, formerly particularly common in Cornwall, became known initially as " Cornish Chough " and then just " Chough ", the name transferring from one species to the other.

However Henry attempted to create a separate legal status for Brittany vis-a-vis the Kingdom of France similar to the position of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Like many similar secondary schools in Cornwall, from the late 1970s it housed the Upper School ( 3rd Year / Year 9 upwards ), when it merged with the town's grammar school to create a split-site comprehensive school.

There are also similarities with the ' Obby ' Oss festival in Padstow, Cornwall, and with similar events in Minehead, Somerset, and Combe Martin in Devon.

Cornwall appears to have had a significantly larger militia than other areas of a similar size.

A similar area is covered by the North Cornwall parliamentary constituency.

As well as being a fishing harbour, Boscastle was once a small port ( similar to many others on the north coast of Cornwall ) importing limestone and coal and exporting slate and other local produce.

The county of Cornwall although not strictly a county palatine had a similar status to Lancashire, in that it was a duchy ; according to custom, a duchy had more independence from the sovereign than a county.

While the stannaries of Devon and Cornwall had the most developed legal systems, a number of other mining communities had similar privileges.

A similar pudding, known as Hog's pudding, is made in Cornwall and Devon though it is much spicier than white pudding, as it contains black pepper, cumin, basil, and garlic.

A similar earthquake which happened in 1944 caused significant damage to buildings in Cornwall as this was before earthquake resistant architecture became commonplace.

The bill proposes a devolved Assembly for Cornwall, similar to the Welsh and Scottish setup.

They compare the situation of the Duchy of Cornwall with that of the Duchy of Lancaster, which has similar rights in Lancashire, which is indisputably part of England.

He probably started work on this before his friend Richard Carew began writing his similar Survey of Cornwall.

There appears to be little doubt that it existed, and British archaeologists and linguists have attempted to identify it with a number of sites in Cornwall and in Wales as well, for example Din Draithou, which is phonetically similar.

Also prevalent at Ogmore ( and all across the Vale of Glamorgan coastline ) was organised shipwrecking ; similar to tales in Cornwall where lanterns would be tied to a bull / cow at night resting onto top of a cliff ; passing ships would mistake a flickering light as a lighthouse and be lured to destruction.

The NDBs were stored under U. S. Marine guard at RAF St. Mawgan, Cornwall, UK, with 60 similar weapons stored there for RAF Shackleton and Nimrod aircraft.

Whether or not that's true, the Arena has a near twins in the Cornwall Civic Complex in Cornwall, Ontario ( built in 1976 ) and similar facilities in the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine and WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, West Virginia ( both built in 1977 ).

The church's dedication is extremely unusual — there are three similar dedications in the UK, two in Cornwall, and one at Swaffham Prior, in Cambridgeshire.

Other dishes include Guinevere, Tristan and Isolde after characters in Arthurian legend, much of which takes place in Cornwall.

* Mark of Cornwall, a figure from Arthurian legend

* The Trevelyan family of Cornwall takes its coat of arms from a local legend, in which a man named Trevelyan escaped the innundation by riding a white horse.

According to legend, Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall under King Uther Pendragon, rebelled against the latter's rule when the king became obsessed with Gorlois ' wife Igraine.

The origin of St Ives is attributed in legend to the arrival of the Irish Saint Ia of Cornwall, in the 5th century.

Corineus, in medieval British legend, was a prodigious warrior, a fighter of giants, and the eponymous founder of Cornwall.

As with many things in Cornwall, there is a legend as to how the Doom Bar came about ; a local fisherman is reputed to have shot a mermaid with an arrow, with the result that she cursed Padstow by putting this sandbar between the harbour and the sea.

The college arms are modelled closely on the arms of the Trevelyan family, whose crest features a swimming horse, commemorating the legend of the first Trevelyan, who swum his horse from St Michael's Mount to the mainland of Cornwall for a wager, the other knights of Arthur's court having drowned.

Another legend surrounding stargazy pie, along with the other unusual pies of Cornwall, is that they were the reason that the Devil never came to Cornwall.

The Elder Isles, situated southwest of Cornwall and west of Brittany consist of a large island Hybras ( the Hy-Brasil of ancient Irish legend ), about the size of Ireland itself, surrounded by numerous smaller islands of various sizes.

According to legend they also evangelised north Cornwall.

Gorlois of Tintagel ( Welsh: Gwrlais ) was a Duke of Cornwall and Igraine's first husband before her marriage to Uther Pendragon, according to the Arthurian legend.

In addition to its use in literature, and film, the hotel is referenced in " Jamaica Inn ", a song written by Tori Amos on her album The Beekeeper, written while she was travelling by car along the road of the Cornwall cliffs, and inspired by the legend she had heard of the inn.

Cornwall's Early Medieval history, in particular the early Welsh and Breton references to a Cornish ' king ' named Arthur, have featured in such legendary works as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, predating later Arthurian legend ( see legendary Dukes of Cornwall ).

In Arthurian legend Gorlois ( Gwrlais in Welsh ) is attributed the title " Duke of Cornwall " but evidence of his existence is scant.

There is no current tin mining undertaken in Cornwall, however a popular legend says that wherever you may go in the world, if you see a hole in the ground, you'll find a Cornishman at the bottom of it.

* Igraine, mother of King Arthur, was Duchess of Cornwall when she caught the eye of King Uther Pendragon in many retellings of Arthurian legend.

A level of Tomb Raider: Legend, a videogame dealing with Arthurian legend, takes place in Cornwall at a tacky museum above King Arthur's tomb.

There is a legend which says that Brân was a Cornish prince, the son of the Duke of Cornwall, another suggests Brân could be named for King Bran Fendigaid ( the Blessed ) also called Bendigeidfran, a Celtic God who appears in both Welsh and Irish mythology.