Cornwall
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Far West Places
Splattenridden , Cripplesease . Tripping off the tongue, but cemented to the soil. Would going there, I wonder, take the edge off enjoyment of the...
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Trencrom Hill
Running down the hillfort’s flank, pockets full of wind thrift apples, fleeing from the small hound that has latched onto my shadow, the shades of...
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Mid Cornwall Ten Year Blues
Well, I woke up this morning and found myself here, woke up this morning and found myself here, covered in clay dust and full of the fear. Woke up...
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Cornish Saints
I like the fact that few of you came from here; why wouldn’t you visit this peninsula for your holidays? More than that, the people accepted the love...
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Star Gazey Pie
Perverse Cornish pie you'd swear they made up as a joke to scare incomers. But it's as true as I breathe, fish heads peeking perversely over the rim...
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Knave-Go-By
Straggle of semi-rural homes on the lee side of Camborne, the west lane pointing down the peninsula towards Land's End. Dog does somersaults with its...
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Cornish Ghetto Wedding
In the meadow (which is a ghetto), the well-heeled and so-so dressed make do with luxury. Basilisk businessmen become mellow-eyed, and the wives,...
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St Rumon's Space (Redruth)
It looks like a bombed out place, this quiet vacancy in an unfashionable town. To one side, over the walls, traffic drones, and on the other a...
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Kernow Song
This is the land of another language beneath its paper thin English skin. Green sward on the headland's heath, a statement thrust into the Celtic Sea...
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The Coming of Industry to Cornwall
They were people, but not as you and I, in that nineteenth century haze who saw the native hills erupt around them, fields that had been pregnant an...
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The Gallos Statue, Tintagel
See through statue on the island's heart, seeing the Celtic Sea through the unrendered gaps in the chest, an unguessed at warrior, eight feet high in...
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On The Coastal Path at Pedngwinian
On the south-west coastal path we are alerted, Lorraine and I, to the coming of a marvel. Four women wrinkle faces in the wind, spotting sight of a...
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The Heritage Man
The volunteer stands in the grassy courtyard of the ruined castle, a heritage knight armed already at 9:15 with enough leaflets to vanquish the...
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Fifty Cornish Sunsets
We are called upon to come here, to cliff, to strand, to hilltop, summoned to the coast to make the most of sundown. With hundreds silently watching...
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The Silence at Penwarna
The was a stream one would assume was dreaming, until you see the bank side sign that warns it's polluted with arsenic. The poison a remnant of long...
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