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Cornwall

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1 Cornwall borders the county of ________ at the River Tamar.

2 Which of the following is South of Cornwall?

3 Which of the following places is northeast of Cornwall?

4 Which of the following is Southwest of Cornwall?

5 Who played centre in the Cornwall?

6 With its comparatively small, rural population, major contribution by the Cornish to national ________ has been limited.

7 Which of these places is north of Cornwall?

8 There are also claims that the patron saint of Cornwall is ________ or Saint Petroc, but Saint Piran is by far the most popular of the three and his emblem is internationally[74][75] recognised as the flag of Cornwall.

9 During the 6th and 7th centuries, the name Cornubia became corrupted by extensive changes in the ________.

10 The ________ are served by ferry (from Penzance), helicopter (Penzance Heliport) and fixed wing aeroplane (Land's End Airport, near St Just) and from Newquay Airport.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • most trains stop before reaching the platform at Coombe railway station in Cornwall, UK, and then reverse away?
  • seven Cornish fishermen sailed to Australia in the lugger Mystery in 1854–55, a journey which is being recreated today by the Spirit of Mystery?
  • some of the disused railway stations between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, England, were closed during the "Beeching Axe" in the 1960s?
  • in 2002, Devon and Cornwall set up a scheme where travellers on rural railways were rewarded for visiting pubs along the route?
  • about 600 ships have been wrecked on the Doom Bar at the estuary of the River Camel on Cornwall's north coast in the past 200 years?
  • Cornwall's South West Coast Path came into being as a working path used by Revenue Officers to patrol the coast near Polperro in search of smugglers?
  • chalcocite, a profitable and desirable kind of copper ore, was particularly plentiful in the now-depleted copper mines of Cornwall, England and Bristol, Connecticut?
  • John Rogers, who helped to prepare a version of the Hebrew Bible, also helped to introduce the man engine, an important reform in Cornish mining?
  • Australian-born lumber executive John A. Campbell was said to have introduced surfing on the Cornwall coast of England?
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