Hi This is a good vid about the Eden Project "They Built a Rainforest Ecosystem inside a Geodesic Dome. and there are few videos about St Michaels Mount well worth checking,
There is so much more to Cornwall, he barely touched on it all. Newlyn. Looe. Polperro. Fowey. St Mawes. St Just (both of them). Mevagissey. Newquay. Perranporth. St Agnes. Sennen. Portscatho. Pendower. Bodmin. Port Isaac. St Ives Falmouth (and Harbour 3rd Deepest natural harbour in the world and deepest in Europe) it is huge. The Scilly Isles. The Lizard peninsula the most southerly point in mainland Britain. Royal Navy Air Station Culdrose aka HMS Seahawk home of the Navy's Helicopter fleet when not deployed on ship. Earth Station Goonhilly Down, first Live Satellite TV link all so was a major player in receiving and retransmitting the Moon Landings and many other Space events. And finally Fragile Rock yes I said it aka St Anthony's Head Rocks and Lighthouse made famous by the Jim Henson TV Series. Just to mention a few, it's a truly magical place.
Those skinny roads have wider passing place's at frequent intervals, and the driver nearest too one would be the one to back up, often though, in straighter places if you spot a car coming and you get to a passing place you would pull in to let them pass, if you meet a tractor and trailer then you would reverse, but generally you never reverse for to long or too far, but these roads are usually never very busy so often you'd meet no one.
The stone dwellings of Skara Brae on Orkney is older than the great pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge st over 5 000. Yes the Eden Project had not been built yet.
I found a channel about three weeks ago called CJ Explores- they have made quite a few good videos of Cornwall. The dome you mentioned is the Eden Project. The castle you liked is called St. Michael's Mount.
The island that you saw looks even better during high tide when you catch a ferry from Marazion (a cute village near Penzance). When you come to UK, don't be planning on rushing things - you need a week ONLY for Cornwall, and it's only one of 47 other counties just in England, each one having at least one major highlight. And that's not counting Wales and Scoland. Two more weeks for EACH of those places.
Graves which exist near and around churches here in England are not called "cemetries" but graveyards instead. In Scoland, village churches are known as 'kirks'... In Wales, theyre often known as chapels... Cemetries are usually larger and set aside, near the boundaries, and thus away from dwellings. (originally, at least, til villages became larger, and later as towns grew into cities). In London there are seven large and well-known cemetries, and there are YT videos which give a great deal of information as to each cemetery's origins (and general to specific) history. In a separate point, ponies which seem to "run wild" in various areas of Britain, are usually owned but left to graze freely and 'rounded up' reglarly for general checks as to their health and numbers, the colts and fillies may be sold to prevent the herds from becoming too large and overgrazing the moors etc. 'Dartmoor' ponies, 'Exmoor' ponies and 'New Forest' ponies make excellent rides for teenagers and / or suitably sized adults, used in showing, showjumping, hacking, Pony Trekking etc. The Native Ponies of Britain are generally found to be tough, surefooted, and hardy, and also include 'Fell' ponies, 'Dales' ponies, 'Highland' Ponies, and in Ireland, 'Connemara' Ponies.🐴🇬🇧❤️🇮🇪🙂🖖
I moved from my native London to Cornwall and I feel like I’m home. The beaches by themselves are awesome but add in the magic,history,legend and mystique and beautiful countryside…….why would I live anywhere else.
Yea the last mine to close in Cornwall was in 1998 named south crofty it will reopen again in 2026 I can't wait to see the head gear working again! To bad me dad not here to see it as he was miner for 25 year at south crofty.
I worked down a Coal Mine as a kid has soon as reached 17▪︎5 I left and went into Engineering. So I know the hard conditions your Dad worked in or similar anyway.
@hardywatkins7737 If you Notice that was 4 months ago. It's gone very quiet I was Exited for the Local Cornish people Especially young people. Getting well paid jobs .I'm from Derbyshire worked down a Coal Mine .along time ago . But not heard alot since.
The last time I went to Land's End it wasn't anywhere nears touristy as in this film. There was just a couple of buildings, and you could take photos with the sign-post for free. I think it's terrible that such a site can be commercialised.
That was a good video. I grew up in south Devon and now live just over the border, the Tamar river, in Launceston in Cornwall. I've been to nearly all these places over the years, even lived up outside Chagford for a little while right up on Dartmoor which was a nice escape for a bit. Both Cornwall and Devon are a beautiful landscape. Even though Dartmoor is in Devon it's slopes reach the very border of Cornwall and i can see Dartmoor clearly from my window ... it's only a few miles away, and if i look in the opposite direction, there's Bodmin moor in Cornwall also. It's a fairly wet climate stuck between two moors. I do like Penzance, ... it's a little depressed these days, not quite like the bustling, busy town i remember as a teenager but alot of places are like that, it has a rail link which makes it easy to get to though.
It's the Duchy of Cornwall, part of the uk but not legally part of england. It was a nation before england existed. We have our own Head of State & its not King Charles. ❤❤
A nice video but if you drive North from Tintagel you go into the sea. You need to go South East to find Dartmoor which as stated is in Devon not Cornwall. His guide talking about Pasties said "Turnip or Swede as we call it.". Turnip is white and Swede is orange and are NOT the same thing. As mentioned in other comments the Eden Project is very good to visit but Cornwall is full of beautiful places and they can't all get a mention in a short video.
This is why it's best to watch videos made by natives. With the exception of Tintagel, he never went further than the little area he knew. There's a LOT more to Cornwall than that! It's an incredibly beautiful county, with hundreds of beautiful beaches, gardens, villages and historic sites but that wasn't really shown. The incredible beauty of the place wasn't shown much at all. Not a great introduction to Cornwall, as videos go. It's clear he only really knows a tiny area around Penzance and even that not particularly well. Tbh, the far tip of Cornwall is, in many ways, it's least interesting and least picturesque. I'm not saying it's lacking in those things, except in comparison to the 90% of the county that was totally ignored. It's not his fault. He's only following what some poor guide book or webpage has told him and he wasn't out to make a comprehensive guide but there must be better introductions to Cornwall than this! :)
It may sound strange, but you're as likely to see foxes roaming the streets and gardens of London, as you are in the countryside... We have a family of foxes living in (or near) our back garden, here on the outer edge of London, _not_ _within_ 'Inner London', yet not _within_ the _counties_ _outside_ of 'Inner London' (we're in Greater London, SE6 here!!)
I have connections with the next county to Cornwall, Devon; my grandfather's family have been there back to the 1600s. Dartmoor is in Devon, and my great-grandfather went out on Dartmoor every day of his life. ( (I've been across it at night. It's seriously spooky!) The ponies on the other great Moor of Devon, Exmoor, are even more interesting. They are a different, prehistoric, breed. And of course I completely disagree about how to put cream and jam on scones. As I was taught by my Great-aunt Edith, the cream goes on first, which is the Devon way! Clotted cream is simply wonderful. I believe in the USA, and possibly in Canada, the way milk is prepared stops it being made, which is criminal. We pasteurise the milk, as the USA does, but I think I've been told that the Yanks insist on homogenising it as well, which stops the cream being taken off. The rich pastures of the South-West produce rich cream from the grass-fed cows. Devon is a very beautiful county too.
Land's End was never considered the end of the known world. There are no indigenous people here, so everyone came from other lands. By the way, there is no evidence that the Celts ever csme here.
It really isn't. Except to the tiny, tiny number of diehard "Cornish nationalists". Most Cornish people (most of whose roots lie elsewhere) even the ones whose families have been there for generations, are perfectly fine with being called English or British, because that's what they are. However, they WILL let you know that they're a proud Cornish man or woman too. Cornwall has been part of England, since England's very formation! Cornish nationalism has attempted a revival but as most of it's ancient culture is unkown, much of it is assumed, or made up. It's a similar story with the language. It's effectively a dead language, with no native speakers. It hadn't been the majority language in Cornwall since medieval times. The hanful of people that speak it now, haved learned it for academic reasons, or as part of this attempted 'revival'. Even the language they learn is completely different to that that the native speakers would have spoken. Little was written down, so they had to assume, or make large parts of it up, borrowing vast amounts from Welsh and Breton and having to just make up words, terms and phrases for virtually everything that is a product of the modern era of the last couple of hundred years. 99.99% of Cornish people can't speak or understand this largely made up tongue. English is the native tongue for virtually all Cornish people. For the small number for whom it isn't, French and Polish are more likely their native tongue. There are no native speakers of "Cornish". The whole Celtic thing, across the board, is very dubious but it's useful to nationalists, as it provides a victim narrative and a cultural identity focus, even if large parts are false. For instance, the idea of 'clan tartans' and kilts are a romantic invention of the Victorian era, popularised by Sir Walter Scott and enthusiastically adopted by the British monarchy, partly to show the 'Britishness of the largely German royal family. Your average English person is likely to have as much Celtic dna as someone from Scotland, Ireland or South Wales and 'Cornish dna' is not really a thing. The Celts in England weren't pushed out, they just adopted the more successful cultures of various waves of immigrants and invaders. Most notably, the Angles, Saxons, Vikings and Normans. You may have noticed that I left out North Wales.earlier. That's because North and parts of central Wales have a lot more Celtic dna than anywhere else in the British Isles, including Ireland (most of the major Irish towns, including Dublin, were founded by the Vikings). Welsh is also the only truly living Celtic language, with tens of thousands of real native speakers. There are still plenty of places in North and central Wales, where Welsh remains the first language. Although they all speak English too and English remains the native tongue of well over 90% of Welsh people. There's been a push, in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, for the last 50 years or so, last hundred years in Ireland, to revive what were dead, or close to dead, languages and to promote an idea of 'Celticness'. All largely for political reasons. Thus huge amounts of money have been spent teaching these languages in schools, even though, outside of North Wales, they'll probably never speak it or have any practical use for it. Large amounts of money has been spent on making roadsigns bilingual. The same is true of all local government documents etc and the returning officers in elections have to read the results in English and Welsh/Gaelic etc. Watching them struggle with that can be a sight to behold! lol. Next time you here about 'Celtic' culture, just be aware that, outside of Wales, much of it will be imaginary, made up, a modern invention. Some of it will have a seed of truth to it but I'd take it with a pinch of salt, until you can look into it further. :)
@@Codex7777 The bit that's offensive is the possessive aspect of the statement, saying any part of the UK is England's implies a hierachy of possession. Saying Cornwall is part of Britain, British or even Britain's Carnwall is fine. Saying England's Cornwall is stating that England, part of Britain, has possession over other parts of the UK. It's true what you say about the loss of Celticness, but you omit why that happened. It was literally taught out of the people by mandatory schooling. You are also right about the current cultural aspects of part of the UK not bearing much simularitary with the original, but that's also true of English cultural aspects, which has always been a mix of other cutures (Anglo Saxon, Celtic, Norse, Roman and Ancient British) anyway and has changed over the centuries to what it is now. DNA is a dodgy thing anyway as we define our culture by a single male line in the UK, according to that I'm from Norman descent, but the single thread going back to those times is literally that, a thread. 99% of my DNA comes from other sources, mostly Anglo Saxon plus a little Norse, and 25% Scottish.
Somebody needs to point out that Cornwall is a Duchy not a county, the title was held by Charles when he was Prince of Wales but I don't know if the title has passed to William.
Duchy merely refers to the holdings of a Duke. It's rarely in one place and the Duke's main estate may not even be in the same place as his title name. Cornwall is a county, just as Norfolk is a county, Sussex is a county, Somerset is a county etc etc, despite all having duchies and Dukes, named after them. :)
@@Sams4kWalks Shhh... Don't say _that_ in front of the Cornish !! Cornwall does indeed have it's own culture, language and flag... (...and _is_ in the far West of England, _but_ , shhhhh, _don't_ mention _that to any true Cornish person...!!) I'm a Londoner (partly of Southetn Irish descent) but _I_ _always_ think of _Cornwall_ as being 'separate' to the rest of England... 🤔😏🥺❤️🖖 In fact, they've more in common with the other Celtish folks of Wales, and Eire, than to the English ...and thats just the truth of it!
@@JennieShaw-b2iIt used to be. The kingdom of Kernow was a separate entity to Saxon England. It wasn't brought under Saxon rule for a very long time. Hence it's continuing existence as a Duchy and a Ceremonial County. After a conflict with what was Wessex, the boundary was set at the river Tamar, with tribute paid to the Saxons in return for continuing autonomy. Even as far as the 1500s, Cornwall had its own Stannary Parliament which was authorised by the monarchy to overrule Westminster in certain areas should they be deemed inappropriate or detrimental to the region and its governance. Cornish people were also known as the West Welsh and, in terms of heritage, have far more in common with the various Bretonic tribespeople than they do with the Saxons/Normans.
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The Eden project is near St Austell in Cornwall. There are lots of beautiful coastal towns in Cornwall, there was just a glimpse on this video.
The ancient sites in Cornwall are amazing.
Look up the beautiful beaches in cornwall white sands clear waters ..like qwithian beach ..kynance cove ..perranporth beach ..newquay beach ..etc so beautiful ..mullen cove ..sennen cove .😊
Hi This is a good vid about the Eden Project "They Built a Rainforest Ecosystem inside a Geodesic Dome. and there are few videos about St Michaels Mount well worth checking,
There is so much more to Cornwall, he barely touched on it all.
Newlyn.
Looe.
Polperro.
Fowey.
St Mawes.
St Just (both of them).
Mevagissey.
Newquay.
Perranporth.
St Agnes.
Sennen.
Portscatho.
Pendower.
Bodmin.
Port Isaac.
St Ives
Falmouth (and Harbour 3rd Deepest natural harbour in the world and deepest in Europe) it is huge.
The Scilly Isles.
The Lizard peninsula the most southerly point in mainland Britain.
Royal Navy Air Station Culdrose aka HMS Seahawk home of the Navy's Helicopter fleet when not deployed on ship.
Earth Station Goonhilly Down, first Live Satellite TV link all so was a major player in receiving and retransmitting the Moon Landings and many other Space events.
And finally Fragile Rock yes I said it aka St Anthony's Head Rocks and Lighthouse made famous by the Jim Henson TV Series.
Just to mention a few, it's a truly magical place.
Those skinny roads have wider passing place's at frequent intervals, and the driver nearest too one would be the one to back up, often though, in straighter places if you spot a car coming and you get to a passing place you would pull in to let them pass, if you meet a tractor and trailer then you would reverse, but generally you never reverse for to long or too far, but these roads are usually never very busy so often you'd meet no one.
Thank you 👍
The stone dwellings of Skara Brae on Orkney is older than the great pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge st over 5 000. Yes the Eden Project had not been built yet.
Kernow is Kernow...not Englands
There is a very old saying it is"if theres a hole theres a Cornish man at the bottom of it" because they were such good miners, all over the world.
I found a channel about three weeks ago called CJ Explores- they have made quite a few good videos of Cornwall. The dome you mentioned is the Eden Project. The castle you liked is called St. Michael's Mount.
The Eden Project is in Cornwall and should have been in this, but he left out a lot.
The water isn't cold in the summer time in Cornwall 👍🏻
I saw The Three Musketeers at the Minack Theatre. The sunset over the sea behind the stage.
The island that you saw looks even better during high tide when you catch a ferry from Marazion (a cute village near Penzance).
When you come to UK, don't be planning on rushing things - you need a week ONLY for Cornwall, and it's only one of 47 other counties just in England, each one having at least one major highlight.
And that's not counting Wales and Scoland. Two more weeks for EACH of those places.
Ya id want to stay for months and still wouldn't see everything 👍
I'm on holiday in Mousehole in a month's time. This has got me in the mood for it.
Graves which exist near and around churches here in England are not called "cemetries" but graveyards instead.
In Scoland, village churches are known as 'kirks'... In Wales, theyre often known as chapels...
Cemetries are usually larger and set aside, near the boundaries, and thus away from dwellings. (originally, at least, til villages became larger, and later as towns grew into cities). In London there are seven large and well-known cemetries, and there are YT videos which give a great deal of information as to each cemetery's origins (and general to specific) history.
In a separate point, ponies which seem to "run wild" in various areas of Britain, are usually owned but left to graze freely and 'rounded up' reglarly for general checks as to their health and numbers, the colts and fillies may be sold to prevent the herds from becoming too large and overgrazing the moors etc.
'Dartmoor' ponies, 'Exmoor' ponies and 'New Forest' ponies make excellent rides for teenagers and / or suitably sized adults, used in showing, showjumping, hacking, Pony Trekking etc.
The Native Ponies of Britain are generally found to be tough, surefooted, and hardy, and also include 'Fell' ponies, 'Dales' ponies, 'Highland' Ponies, and in Ireland, 'Connemara' Ponies.🐴🇬🇧❤️🇮🇪🙂🖖
Oh wow thank you👍
I moved from my native London to Cornwall and I feel like I’m home.
The beaches by themselves are awesome but add in the magic,history,legend and mystique and beautiful countryside…….why would I live anywhere else.
I don’t know why he includes Dartmoor , that’s in Devon.
A vast deposit of Rare Earth minerals have been found in Cornwall so the mining industry is set to start again in Cornwall or Under Cornwall.
Yea the last mine to close in Cornwall was in 1998 named south crofty it will reopen again in 2026 I can't wait to see the head gear working again! To bad me dad not here to see it as he was miner for 25 year at south crofty.
I worked down a Coal Mine as a kid has soon as reached 17▪︎5 I left and went into Engineering. So I know the hard conditions your Dad worked in or similar anyway.
That's really good news.
@hardywatkins7737 If you Notice that was 4 months ago. It's gone very quiet I was Exited for the Local Cornish people Especially young people. Getting well paid jobs .I'm from Derbyshire worked down a Coal Mine .along time ago . But not heard alot since.
The last time I went to Land's End it wasn't anywhere nears touristy as in this film. There was just a couple of buildings, and you could take photos with the sign-post for free. I think it's terrible that such a site can be commercialised.
That was a good video. I grew up in south Devon and now live just over the border, the Tamar river, in Launceston in Cornwall. I've been to nearly all these places over the years, even lived up outside Chagford for a little while right up on Dartmoor which was a nice escape for a bit. Both Cornwall and Devon are a beautiful landscape. Even though Dartmoor is in Devon it's slopes reach the very border of Cornwall and i can see Dartmoor clearly from my window ... it's only a few miles away, and if i look in the opposite direction, there's Bodmin moor in Cornwall also. It's a fairly wet climate stuck between two moors. I do like Penzance, ... it's a little depressed these days, not quite like the bustling, busy town i remember as a teenager but alot of places are like that, it has a rail link which makes it easy to get to though.
Even more of a connoisseurs Lands End is Carn Les Boel - the SW extremity of the St Michaels alignment
The mining in Cornwall devastated the landscape - it was far more beautiful before this destructive industry
It's the Duchy of Cornwall, part of the uk but not legally part of england. It was a nation before england existed. We have our own Head of State & its not King Charles. ❤❤
A nice video but if you drive North from Tintagel you go into the sea. You need to go South East to find Dartmoor which as stated is in Devon not Cornwall.
His guide talking about Pasties said "Turnip or Swede as we call it.". Turnip is white and Swede is orange and are NOT the same thing.
As mentioned in other comments the Eden Project is very good to visit but Cornwall is full of beautiful places and they can't all get a mention in a short video.
This is why it's best to watch videos made by natives. With the exception of Tintagel, he never went further than the little area he knew. There's a LOT more to Cornwall than that! It's an incredibly beautiful county, with hundreds of beautiful beaches, gardens, villages and historic sites but that wasn't really shown. The incredible beauty of the place wasn't shown much at all. Not a great introduction to Cornwall, as videos go. It's clear he only really knows a tiny area around Penzance and even that not particularly well. Tbh, the far tip of Cornwall is, in many ways, it's least interesting and least picturesque. I'm not saying it's lacking in those things, except in comparison to the 90% of the county that was totally ignored.
It's not his fault. He's only following what some poor guide book or webpage has told him and he wasn't out to make a comprehensive guide but there must be better introductions to Cornwall than this! :)
Dydh da ma yw Kernowek .
translation Hello this is Cornish. (or as i should say Kernewek)
The Cornish lanes are lovely. We met a fox in a lane near Carn Euny.
It may sound strange, but you're as likely to see foxes roaming the streets and gardens of London, as you are in the countryside... We have a family of foxes living in (or near) our back garden, here on the outer edge of London, _not_ _within_ 'Inner London', yet not _within_ the _counties_ _outside_ of 'Inner London' (we're in Greater London, SE6 here!!)
didn't show bilingual signs
I have connections with the next county to Cornwall, Devon; my grandfather's family have been there back to the 1600s. Dartmoor is in Devon, and my great-grandfather went out on Dartmoor every day of his life. ( (I've been across it at night. It's seriously spooky!) The ponies on the other great Moor of Devon, Exmoor, are even more interesting. They are a different, prehistoric, breed.
And of course I completely disagree about how to put cream and jam on scones. As I was taught by my Great-aunt Edith, the cream goes on first, which is the Devon way! Clotted cream is simply wonderful. I believe in the USA, and possibly in Canada, the way milk is prepared stops it being made, which is criminal. We pasteurise the milk, as the USA does, but I think I've been told that the Yanks insist on homogenising it as well, which stops the cream being taken off.
The rich pastures of the South-West produce rich cream from the grass-fed cows.
Devon is a very beautiful county too.
I was wondering what that cream was. Thank you.
You can't really go wrong with a Rick Steves tourguide episode, can you? Very accurate and balanced descriptions, well filmed and thought out.
@@frglee yes for sure
Cornwull not corn wall
Land's End was never considered the end of the known world. There are no indigenous people here, so everyone came from other lands. By the way, there is no evidence that the Celts ever csme here.
Can you provide evidence of that? The Cornish language is Celtic
In the map where is Anglesey ?
Cornish folk are just a little different to the rest of England 😁
If you are Cornish, saying England's Conwall is about as offensive as saying America's Canada.
Lol
It really isn't. Except to the tiny, tiny number of diehard "Cornish nationalists". Most Cornish people (most of whose roots lie elsewhere) even the ones whose families have been there for generations, are perfectly fine with being called English or British, because that's what they are. However, they WILL let you know that they're a proud Cornish man or woman too. Cornwall has been part of England, since England's very formation!
Cornish nationalism has attempted a revival but as most of it's ancient culture is unkown, much of it is assumed, or made up. It's a similar story with the language. It's effectively a dead language, with no native speakers. It hadn't been the majority language in Cornwall since medieval times. The hanful of people that speak it now, haved learned it for academic reasons, or as part of this attempted 'revival'. Even the language they learn is completely different to that that the native speakers would have spoken. Little was written down, so they had to assume, or make large parts of it up, borrowing vast amounts from Welsh and Breton and having to just make up words, terms and phrases for virtually everything that is a product of the modern era of the last couple of hundred years. 99.99% of Cornish people can't speak or understand this largely made up tongue. English is the native tongue for virtually all Cornish people. For the small number for whom it isn't, French and Polish are more likely their native tongue. There are no native speakers of "Cornish".
The whole Celtic thing, across the board, is very dubious but it's useful to nationalists, as it provides a victim narrative and a cultural identity focus, even if large parts are false. For instance, the idea of 'clan tartans' and kilts are a romantic invention of the Victorian era, popularised by Sir Walter Scott and enthusiastically adopted by the British monarchy, partly to show the 'Britishness of the largely German royal family. Your average English person is likely to have as much Celtic dna as someone from Scotland, Ireland or South Wales and 'Cornish dna' is not really a thing. The Celts in England weren't pushed out, they just adopted the more successful cultures of various waves of immigrants and invaders. Most notably, the Angles, Saxons, Vikings and Normans.
You may have noticed that I left out North Wales.earlier. That's because North and parts of central Wales have a lot more Celtic dna than anywhere else in the British Isles, including Ireland (most of the major Irish towns, including Dublin, were founded by the Vikings). Welsh is also the only truly living Celtic language, with tens of thousands of real native speakers. There are still plenty of places in North and central Wales, where Welsh remains the first language. Although they all speak English too and English remains the native tongue of well over 90% of Welsh people. There's been a push, in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, for the last 50 years or so, last hundred years in Ireland, to revive what were dead, or close to dead, languages and to promote an idea of 'Celticness'. All largely for political reasons. Thus huge amounts of money have been spent teaching these languages in schools, even though, outside of North Wales, they'll probably never speak it or have any practical use for it. Large amounts of money has been spent on making roadsigns bilingual. The same is true of all local government documents etc and the returning officers in elections have to read the results in English and Welsh/Gaelic etc. Watching them struggle with that can be a sight to behold! lol.
Next time you here about 'Celtic' culture, just be aware that, outside of Wales, much of it will be imaginary, made up, a modern invention. Some of it will have a seed of truth to it but I'd take it with a pinch of salt, until you can look into it further. :)
@@Codex7777 The bit that's offensive is the possessive aspect of the statement, saying any part of the UK is England's implies a hierachy of possession. Saying Cornwall is part of Britain, British or even Britain's Carnwall is fine. Saying England's Cornwall is stating that England, part of Britain, has possession over other parts of the UK.
It's true what you say about the loss of Celticness, but you omit why that happened. It was literally taught out of the people by mandatory schooling. You are also right about the current cultural aspects of part of the UK not bearing much simularitary with the original, but that's also true of English cultural aspects, which has always been a mix of other cutures (Anglo Saxon, Celtic, Norse, Roman and Ancient British) anyway and has changed over the centuries to what it is now.
DNA is a dodgy thing anyway as we define our culture by a single male line in the UK, according to that I'm from Norman descent, but the single thread going back to those times is literally that, a thread. 99% of my DNA comes from other sources, mostly Anglo Saxon plus a little Norse, and 25% Scottish.
Somebody needs to point out that Cornwall is a Duchy not a county, the title was held by Charles when he was Prince of Wales but I don't know if the title has passed to William.
Duchy merely refers to the holdings of a Duke. It's rarely in one place and the Duke's main estate may not even be in the same place as his title name. Cornwall is a county, just as Norfolk is a county, Sussex is a county, Somerset is a county etc etc, despite all having duchies and Dukes, named after them. :)
Cornwall is not in England. It is a country in its own right, although not sovereign in the UK. It has its own flag, language and culture.
@@Sams4kWalks
Shhh... Don't say _that_ in front of the Cornish !! Cornwall does indeed have it's own culture, language and flag...
(...and _is_ in the far West of England, _but_ , shhhhh, _don't_ mention _that to any true Cornish person...!!) I'm a Londoner (partly of Southetn Irish descent) but _I_ _always_ think of _Cornwall_ as being 'separate' to the rest of England... 🤔😏🥺❤️🖖
In fact, they've more in common with the other Celtish folks of Wales, and Eire, than to the English ...and thats just the truth of it!
Since when is Cornwall a separate country?
@@JennieShaw-b2i
Lol...
@@JennieShaw-b2iIt used to be. The kingdom of Kernow was a separate entity to Saxon England. It wasn't brought under Saxon rule for a very long time. Hence it's continuing existence as a Duchy and a Ceremonial County. After a conflict with what was Wessex, the boundary was set at the river Tamar, with tribute paid to the Saxons in return for continuing autonomy.
Even as far as the 1500s, Cornwall had its own Stannary Parliament which was authorised by the monarchy to overrule Westminster in certain areas should they be deemed inappropriate or detrimental to the region and its governance.
Cornish people were also known as the West Welsh and, in terms of heritage, have far more in common with the various Bretonic tribespeople than they do with the Saxons/Normans.
Saying it used to be doesn't wash, so was Kent and Northumberland but they don't claim to be separate now.