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Cornish chough. The chough (in Cornish = palores) is also used as a symbol of Cornwall. In Cornish poetry the chough is used to symbolise the spirit of Cornwall. Also there is a Cornish belief that King Arthur lives in the form of a chough. "Chough" was also used as a nickname for Cornish people.
Penarth (Cornish - penn ors, bear head) - Argent, a chevron between three bears' heads erased Sable muzzled Or. Penwyn (Cornish - penn gwynn, white head) - Gules, three boars' heads erased in pale Argent; Penberthy (Cornish - penn perthy, head bushes) - Argent, two choughs heads above a gorse bush proper. Gwyn (Cornish - gwynn, white) - Per ...
The current logo of Cornwall Council features a Cornish chough and the 15 Cornish golden bezants on a black field as used in the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall. [7] The arms of Cornwall County Council were: Sable fifteen bezants in pile within a bordure barry wavy of eight Argent and Azure.
The chough (Cornish: palores) is also used as a symbol of Cornwall. In Cornish poetry the chough is used to symbolise the spirit of Cornwall. [clarification needed] Also there is a Cornish belief that King Arthur lives in the form of a chough. "Chough" was also used as a nickname for Cornish people. [clarification needed]
The Cornish chough used as an emblem. [citation needed] c.1940–1944: Flag of the 11th (Newquay) Battalion, Cornwall Home Guard: A light yellow flag with a black Cornish chough, used by the Newquay unit of the Cornwall Home Guard (the unit's nickname was "The Choughs"). [3] [4] [5]
The Merry Maidens at St Buryan Celebration of St Piran's Day in Penzance. Cornish mythology is the folk tradition and mythology of the Cornish people.It consists partly of folk traditions developed in Cornwall and partly of traditions developed by Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium, often shared with those of the Breton and Welsh peoples.
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The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough (/ ˈ tʃ ʌ f / CHUF; Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its eight subspecies breed on mountains and coastal cliffs from the western coasts of Ireland and Britain east through southern Europe and North Africa to Central ...