
The Great Eclipse of 1999: When Cornwall Went Dark
On August 11th, 1999, Cornwall experienced the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Britain since 1927. For two minutes and four seconds, day became ...
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On August 11th, 1999, Cornwall experienced the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Britain since 1927. For two minutes and four seconds, day became ...

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 ...

In 1990, Tim Smit was exploring the overgrown grounds of a derelict Cornish estate when he found something extraordinary: a door hidden beneath brambles, and be...

For over 400 years, Dolcoath Mine near Camborne was the deepest, richest, and most famous tin and copper mine in Cornwall — and arguably the world. The Cornish ...

On the morning of March 18th, 1967, the supertanker Torrey Canyon struck Pollard's Rock on the Seven Stones reef between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly. She...

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...

Cornwall has never had a professional rugby team. It doesn't need one. When the county team plays, the whole of Cornwall turns out. The County Championship h...

Cornwall's patron saint arrived, legend says, floating across the Irish Sea on a millstone. St Piran had been thrown from a cliff by Irish pagans who objected t...

Last week, we had the immense privilege of witnessing a spectacular display in our Cornish sky. As I stood there, gazing upward, I could hardly believe my eyes....