Daphne du Maurier, a former resident, chose Bolventor as the setting for her novel about Cornish smugglers titled Jamaica Inn.

The adult du Maurier's Cornish home near Fowey, called Menabilly, was influential in her descriptions of the setting.

Hammond Innes's * novel, The Killer Mine ; also has a Cornish setting.

His own garden in Cornish, made between 1892 and 1912, exemplifies a new style, essentially an Arts and crafts setting for Beaux-Arts Neo-Georgian and Colonial Revival architecture.

Among his best were the 1958 Castle Dracula / Baskerville Hall for Horror of Dracula and The Hound of the Baskervilles, respectively, the gothic castle doubling for Dracula, Prince of Darkness and Rasputin, the Mad Monk in 1965, and perhaps supremely, the 19th-century Cornish village that provided the setting for The Plague of the Zombies and The Reptile in 1966.

Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as an Insular Celtic language.

Breton is most closely related to Cornish, as both are thought to have evolved from a Southwestern Brythonic protolanguage.

It has been suggested that the town's name comes from an archaic word in the Cornish " bod " ( meaning a dwelling ; the later word is " bos ") and a contraction of " menegh " ( monks ).

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.

Bodmin Parkway railway station is served by main line trains and is situated on the Cornish Main Line about 3½ miles ( 5½ km ) south-east from the town centre.

The Cornish Guardian is a weekly newspaper: it is published in 7 separate editions, including the Bodmin edition.

Bodmin is also the home of Localfusion ; a community based local business network geared to provide information on Cornish news, events and social groups.

Its Cornish name, Goen Bren, is first recorded in the 12th century.

The village is said to take its name from the " Bold Venture " that it must have appeared to build a farm in this moorland, but this is probably folk etymology, as " Bol -" is a common prefix in Cornish placenames.

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.

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

In Devonshire a local word for a cist in Modern Cornish is kistvaen.

In the Welsh language who's origins, like Cornish is from the ancient British or Brythonic language line, ' Cist ' is also used for such ancient graves, but in modern use, can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box, or even the boot / trunk of a car.

The Dumnonii gave their name to the English county of Devon, and their name is represented in Britain's two extant Brythonic languages as Dewnans in Cornish and Dyfnaint in Welsh.

In the late 15th / early 16th century Middle Cornish play Beunans Ke, Arthur's sword is called Calesvol, which is etymologically an exact Middle Cornish cognate of the Welsh Caledfwlch.

He appears in folklore as a trickster, and in County Mayo thunderstorms were referred to as battles between Lugh and Balor, so he is sometimes considered a storm god: Alexei Kondratiev notes his epithet lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker ") and concludes that " if his name has any relation to ' light ' it more properly means ' lightning-flash ' ( as in Breton luc ' h and Cornish lughes )".

These were used for pumping water out of the Cornish Tin mines, and therefore the efficiency and efficacy of the engines was an important factor in the amount of tin, and money, which could be extracted from a mine.

The most important structure of the site is certainly the fogou ( Cornish for cave ), a man-made underground passage which is covered with massive stone slabs.

This book is also an important source for its linguistic description of the Cornish language.

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 ).

There is also a Cornish word dur meaning " land " or " earth "; hence the Durotriges might also be " land-dwellers ", referring to their already important farming tradition: it is known that they were exporting grain to the Roman Empire in large quantities already by the first century BC.

It was named for being the " holy place of St Petrock " ( not to be confused with St Patrick ), an important Cornish saint.

An important part of the open Gorseth is the awarding of bardships to individuals for meritorious work for Cornish culture.

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 ).

One of the most important times of the year in a Cornish rugby fan's calendar is the County Championship.

In 2001 this important work was translated back into Cornish by Julyan Holmes.

The most important work of literature surviving from the Middle Cornish period is the Cornish Ordinalia, a 9000-line religious verse drama which had probably reached its present form by 1400.

It was named for being the " holy place of St Petrock " ( not to be confused with St Patrick ), an important Cornish saint.

Particularly important was the Cornish contribution of a unique system of pumps, operated on steam, which emptied the depths of the mine of its constant water seepage.

Pilchards ( large sardines ), feature in the Cornish speciality, Stargazy Pie.

The demonstrations feature most of the throws and moves of the Cornish style and also feature demonstration bouts usually with a variety of wrestlers from youngsters, girls, lightweights and heavyweights.

In 1999, Cornish was awarded the Australian Film Institute Young Actor's Award for her role in the ABC's television show Wildside and was offered her first role in a feature film, The Monkey's Mask.

The Adam and Joe Show is a British television comedy show, written and presented by Adam and Joe, that is, Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, which ran for four series on Channel 4 between 1996 and 2001.

In 1995, he hosted the show itself, and following this he and Joe Cornish, along with World of Wonder, created The Adam and Joe Show for the same channel, which ran for four series.

His work with Cornish has extended beyond their Channel 4 series, with the pair presenting radio shows on Xfm and later BBC Radio 6 Music.

This was put on hold during 2010 while Cornish directed Attack the Block ; a new series began on Saturday 2 April 2011.

Nigel Edward Buxton ( born 1924 ) is a British travel writer and wine critic, also known for appearing as BaaadDad in the Channel 4 comedy series The Adam and Joe Show, which was written and presented by his son Adam Buxton along with Adam's friend Joe Cornish.

Malory Towers is a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton, featuring the fictional Cornish seaside boarding school of the same name.

In " Jack and Arthur: An Introduction to Jack the Giant Killer ", Thomas Green writes that Jack has no place in Cornish folklore, but was created at the beginning of the eighteenth century simply as a framing device for a series of gory, giant-killing adventures.

The St Austell Guardian is part of the Cornish Guardian series published by Cornwall and Devon Media Ltd.

He worked as an extra on Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns second series in 1979, appearing as a German spy, pretending to be a Cornish fisherman, in Whinfrey's Last Case.

Fifteen-minute sections of Clive Gunnell's walk along the Cornish coast were broadcast by the US Public Broadcasting Service as curtain raisers to the BBC drama " Poldark " in PBS's " Masterpiece Theatre " series.

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.

*“‘ Linguistically sound principles ’: the case against Kernewek Kemmyn ”, in Cornish Studies Second series: Four.

The series explores the life and influence of Francis Cornish.

Resisting the established church, many ordinary Cornish people were Roman Catholic or non-religious until the late 18th century, when Methodism was introduced to Cornwall during a series of visits by John and Charles Wesley.

Couch contributed two series of articles to the periodical Notes and Queries-The Folklore of a Cornish Village 1855 and 1857, and these were incorporated in the History of Polperro, to which he also contributed a sketch of his father's life.

He is most famous for his work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the TV series Spaced, and for directing the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and co-writing Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin with Joe Cornish and Steven Moffat.

In 2012 filming began on a second series around the Cornish coast, taking in the Channel Islands and the Isles of Scilly.

A later example was the Cornish stamps, consisting of a series of iron hammers mounted in a vertical frame, raised by cams on the shaft of a waterwheel and falling on to the ore under gravity.

Writers for the 2008-2010 series include Meer, Grahn, O ' Connor, Cathleen Rootsaert, Dana Andersen, Ian Boothby, Jeff Haslam, Jocelyn Ahlf, Belinda Cornish, Josh Dean, Ron Pederson, Kurt Smeaton, George Westerholm, Chris Craddock, Matt Watts, Maggie Castle, Nile Seguin and writers from Mostly Water Theatre, Gordon's Big Bald Head, and Lobster Telephone.

It is best known for the Cornish Heritage series but also publishes transport and mining books.

The earliest surviving examples of Cornish prose are the Tregear Homilies, a series of 12 Catholic sermons written in English and translated by John Tregear around 1555-1557, to which a thirteenth homily The Sacrament of the Alter was added by another hand.