I love Cornwall, but I haven't been down there in a while. Most of my dads side of the family is living there. If you meet a Pellow, you never know, I could be related to them

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Cornwall is a county of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain. It is bordered to the north by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Taken with the Isles of Scilly Cornwall has a population of 531,600, covering an area of 3,563 km2 (1,376 sq mi). The administrative centre and only city is Truro.

The area now known as Cornwall was first inhabited by Neolithic and then Bronze Age peoples, and later (in the Iron Age) by Celts. Cornwall is part of the Brythonic (Celtic) area of Britain, separated from Wales after the Battle of Deorham, often coming into conflict with the expanding English kingdom of Wessex before King Athelstan in 922 A.D. set the boundary between English and Cornish people at the Tamar.[4] Today, Cornwall's economy struggles after the decline of the mining and fishing industries, and has become more dependent on tourism. The area is noted for its wild moorland landscapes, its extensive and varied coastline and its mild climate.

Cornwall is the homeland of the Cornish people and diaspora, and is considered one of the six "Celtic nations" by many residents and scholars.[5] The county continues to retain its distinct identity, with its own history, language and culture. Many inhabitants question the present constitutional status of Cornwall, and a self-government movement seeks greater autonomy within the UK.

The name Cornwall comes from a merger of two different terms from separate languages.

The Roman term for the Celtic tribe which inhabited what is now Cornwall at the time of Roman rule, Cornovii, came from a Brythonic tribal name which gave modern Cornish Kernow, also known as Corneu to the Brythons. This could be from two sources; the term may be related to the common Celtic root cern, or the Latin cornu, both of which mean "horn" or "peninsula", suggestive of the shape of Cornwall's landmass. The Cornovii were sufficiently established for their territory to be recorded as Cornubia by AD 700, the name meaning "people of the horn", and remained as such into the Middle Ages. Even earlier 'Cornovia' is attested in the Ravenna Cosmography where its principal town (associated with Tintagel)[citation needed] is shown in Latin as 'Duro Cornovii' (Stronghold of the Cornovians).

During the 6th and 7th centuries, the name Cornubia became corrupted by extensive changes in the Old English language.[ The Anglo-Saxons provided the suffix wealas, meaning "foreigners", creating the term Corn-wealas. Some historians note that this was the word for Wales, however it is understood that the term applied instead to all Brythonic peoples and lands, who were considered foreign by the Anglo-Saxons. As Cornwall was known as West Wales and present-day Cumberland as North Wales during those times, the "Wales" meaning is probable: this is because the word 'wealhas' is Anglo-Saxon (i.e. Old English) and from the perspective of Winchester, the capital of the Kings of Wessex from whom the English Crown derives, Cownwall is to Winchester's west, and Cumberland is to Winchester's north -- hence the use of the terms West Wales and North Wales by English kings.

The present human history of Cornwall begins with the reoccupation of Britain after the last Ice Age. The pre-Roman inhabitants included speakers of a Celtic language that would develop into the Brythonic language Cornish. After a period of Roman rule, Cornwall reverted to independent Celtic chieftains. The first account of Cornwall comes from the Sicilian Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (c.90 BC–c.30 BC), supposedly quoting or paraphrasing the fourth-century BC geographer Pytheas, who had sailed to Britain:

The inhabitants of that part of Britain called Belerion (or Land's End) from their intercourse with foreign merchants, are civilised in their manner of life. They prepare the tin, working very carefully the earth in which it is produced ... Here then the merchants buy the tin from the natives and carry it over to Gaul, and after travelling overland for about thirty days, they finally bring their loads on horses to the mouth of the Rhône.

The identity of these merchants is unknown. There has been a theory that they were Phoenicians, however there is no evidence for this.

There is a theory that once silver was extracted from the copper ores of Cornwall in pre-Roman times, as silver is easily converted to its chloride (AgCl) by surface waters containing chlorine.

Welsh bard writing later in the 19th Century name the "seat of government" of Cornwall;

Three kingdoms are governed in subordination to the crown of the supreme monarch of Britain ; which are, Wales, which, originally, had its seat of government at Caerlleon upon Usk, but now it is at Aberffraw; — the next, Cornwall and Devon, the royal residence having been, originally, at Gelliwig, but now it is at Caervynyddawg, and Cumbria.

Cornwall forms the tip of the south-west peninsula of the island of Great Britain, and is therefore exposed to the full force of the prevailing winds that blow in from the Atlantic Ocean. The coastline is composed mainly of resistant rocks that give rise in many places to impressive cliffs. Cornwall has a border with only one other county, Devon.

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