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it is a county on England’s rugged southwestern tip. It forms a peninsula encompassing wild moorland and hundreds of sandy beaches, culminating at the promontory Land’s End. 

Penryn is perhaps one of the oldest towns in the Cornwall districts. It first was founded in 1216; later being incorporated in 1621 by King James I. Centuries ago, the small port town served as home and educational quarters for many priests in training.

The first TV broadcast was handled by a satellite at Goonhilly in Cornwall. It was the site of the first parabolic satellite antenna on earth. That disc, installed in 1962 and dubbed Arthur, was built to monitor Telstar.

It has been the backdrop for many TV and film productions, shows such as Poldark, Taboo, Doc Martin, Jamaica Inn and Wycliffe. All of these shows have used the exquisite landscapes to capture their viewer’s imaginations.

It has over 300 beaches, including some with waves that can reach over 25 ft.

St Ives name comes from the arrive of Irish traveller Saint Ia, who came after Cornwall because part of a maritime trading network which saw trade between Ireland, England, France, Spain and Portugal.

Cornwall boasts the largest collection of plant species found in the British Isles and the sea is teaming with life as well, on average a Cornish fisherman can catch over forty species of fish in our waters! Making our water sport activities the perfect place to spot dolphins, seals, sun fish and even basking sharks!

Kernowek — the Cornish native tongue — was spoken by the Cornish throughout the Middle Ages, only gradually becoming obsolete as English began to dominate. But this archaic language is not to be kept down forever.

It has the longest coastline of any English county, which measures at about 433 miles long, offering up a wonderful array of activities such as surfing, coasteering, rock climbing and rambling to only name a few!

Cornwall has over 75,000 cows, which makes it the place to be for summer treats, such as delicious local ice cream as well as strawberries with a side of clotted cream.

In October 1998, the Eden Project’s largest biome is fifty metres high, which helped to set a world record. The scaffolding structure to support the build of the biome went into the Guinness World Records as the largest free-standing scaffold structure in the world.