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The Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery, formerly known as the Royal Cornwall Museum, [1] is a museum in Truro, England, which holds an extensive mineral collection rooted in Cornwall's mining and engineering heritage (including much of the mineral collection of Philip Rashleigh).
Mount St Michael, Cornwall is an 1830 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. [1] Stanfield, a former sailor , specialised in marine paintings . [ 2 ] This view of St Michael's Mount in stormy weather was a breakthrough for him.
Pelynt (Cornish: Pluwnennys or Pluwnonna) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth and four miles (6.5 km) west-northwest of Looe. [1] Pelynt had a population of around 1,124 at the 2001 census which increased to 1,296 at the 2011 census. [2]
St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, [1] meaning "hoar rock in woodland") [2] is a tidal island in Mount's Bay near Penzance, Cornwall, England (United Kingdom).The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a causeway of granite setts, passable (as is the beach) between mid-tide and low water.
The Lost Gardens of Heligan (Cornish: Lowarth Helygen, meaning willow tree garden) are located near Mevagissey in Cornwall, England and are considered to be amongst the most popular in the UK. [citation needed] The gardens are typical of the 19th century Gardenesque style with areas of different character and in different design styles.
Aerial photo looking across Land's End to Cape Cornwall Celtic cross near St Loy's Cove, St Buryan Rocky cove at St Loy in the south of the district. Penwith (/ ˌ p ɛ n ˈ w ɪ θ /; Cornish: Pennwydh) is an area of Cornwall, England, located on the peninsula of the same name.
Trevose Head (right of photo) seen from the north-west (the two nearer headlands (left of photo) are Stepper Point and Gunver Head) Trevose Head Lifeboat Station. Trevose Head (Cornish: Penn Trenfos, meaning farm of the wall's headland [citation needed]) (grid reference) is a headland on the Atlantic coast of north Cornwall, on the south-western coast of Great Britain.
Cornwall Council, formerly Cornwall County Council until 2009, is a unitary authority based at Lys Kernow in Truro. The Isles of Scilly are governed by the sui generis Council of the Isles of Scilly based in Hugh Town, [132] [133] and have been administered by their own unitary authority since 1890.