
1940s•Fowey
Daphne du Maurier: The Writer Who Made Cornwall Famous
When Daphne du Maurier first saw the ruins of Menabilly House near Fowey in 1927, she was twenty years old and instantly bewitched. "I stood there like someone ...
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When Daphne du Maurier first saw the ruins of Menabilly House near Fowey in 1927, she was twenty years old and instantly bewitched. "I stood there like someone ...

Every December 23rd, the village of Mousehole celebrates Tom Bawcock's Eve with a peculiar dish called Stargazy Pie — a fish pie with whole pilchards poking the...

On Christmas Eve, 1801, a crowd gathered on the road above Camborne to witness something that had never been seen before in all of human history: a machine that...

The image of Cornish villagers luring ships onto the rocks with false lights is one of the most persistent legends of the county. But how much of it is true? ...