The Cornish peninsula is at the south-western tip of Great Britain

The Eden Project, near St Austell

The Minack Theatre, near Land's End

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Cornwall:
Cornwall – ceremonial county and unitary authority area of England within the United Kingdom. Cornwall is a peninsula bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea,^[1] to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall is also a royal duchy of the United Kingdom. It has an estimated population of half a million and it has its own distinctive history and culture.

General reference[edit]

• Etymology of "Cornwall"


• Common English name(s): Cornwall
  


• Common endonym(s): Kernow
  


• 
  Adjectival(s): Cornish
  


• 
  Demonym(s): Cornish
  

Geography of Cornwall[edit]

Geography of Cornwall

• 
  Cornwall is a mainland county of Great Britain and part of the British Isles. It reaches from the south-westernmost point into the Atlantic Ocean and English Channel. It is in Eurasia (but not on the mainland) in the Northern Hemisphere.

Environment of Cornwall[edit]

• Climate of Cornwall – see climate of England
  
  • Brown Willy effect


• 
  Geology of Cornwall
  
  • Geology of Lizard, Cornwall


• List of Special Areas of Conservation in Cornwall


• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall

Natural geographic features of Cornwall[edit]

Extreme points[edit]

• Extreme points of Cornwall


• Lands End

Beaches of Cornwall[edit]

• Beaches of Penwith


• Carbis Bay


• Crackington Haven


• Downderry


• Fistral Beach


• Gwithian


• Harlyn


• Maenporth


• Marazion


• Mawgan Porth


• Newquay


• Perranporth


• Polzeath


• Porthcothan


• Porthcurno


• Porthleven


• Porthtowan


• Portreath


• Praa Sands


• Rame Peninsula


• Rock, Cornwall


• Sennen


• St Mawes


• Widemouth Bay


• Whitsand Bay

Bodies of water of Cornwall[edit]

• 
  Rivers of Cornwall
  
  • River Truro
  
  
  • River Camel
  
  
  • River Fal
  
  
  • River Gannel
  
  
  • Gover Stream
  
  
  • Hamoaze
  
  
  • Helford River
  
  
  • River Looe
  
  
  • River Lynher
  
  
  • St Austell River
  
  
  • River Tamar
  
  


• Bays of Cornwall
  
  • Carbis Bay
  
  
  • Widemouth Bay
  
  
  • Whitsand Bay
  
  


• Coastal waters adjacent to Cornwall


• 
  Atlantic Ocean
  
  • Celtic Sea
  
  
  • English Channel
  
  

Islands of Cornwall[edit]

Scilly Isles: map by John Bartholomew

• It has several islands islands of Cornwall, the largest archipelago being the Isles of Scilly.
  
  • West Cornwall Steam Ship Company
  
  
  • History of the Isles of Scilly
  
  
  • Islands in the Isles of Scilly
  
  
  • Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly: category, list
    
  
  
  • Transport in the Isles of Scilly
  
  
  • Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the Isles of Scilly
  
  

Wildlife of Cornwall[edit]

• 
  Flora and fauna of Cornwall
  
  • Cornish symbols

Flora of Cornwall[edit]

• Cornish Gilliflower


• Cornish heath

Fauna of Cornwall[edit]

• 
  Birds of Cornwall
  
  • Red-billed chough
  
  
  • Cornish game hen
  
  


• Mammals of Cornwall
  
  • Large Black (pig)

Wildlife conservation[edit]

• Cornwall Wildlife Trust


• The Guild of Cornish Hedgers


• Frederick Hamilton Davey

Places in Cornwall[edit]

• 
  Population of Cornwall: 536,000 (2014 estimate)
  

Places in Cornwall

• List of places in Penwith


• 
  Places of interest in Cornwall
  
  • List of public art in Cornwall

Towns and settlements in Cornwall[edit]

Further places of interest[edit]

indicates Access Land

Demography of Cornwall[edit]

Demographics of Cornwall

Politics of Cornwall[edit]

Politics of Cornwall

• Cornish nationalism


• Celtic League (political organisation)


• Cornish Nationalist Party


• Cornish Solidarity


• Cornwall 2000


• Cornish rotten and pocket boroughs


• Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

Elections in Cornwall[edit]

• 2005 United Kingdom general election result in Cornwall


• Local elections
  
  • Cornwall local elections
  
  
  • Caradon local elections
  
  
  • Carrick local elections
  
  
  • Kerrier local elections
  
  
  • North Cornwall local elections
  
  
  • Penwith local elections
  
  
  • Restormel local elections
  
  
  • Penwith Council election, 2007
  
  
  • Penwith Council election, 2004
  
  
  • Restormel Council election, 2003
  
  
  • Truro by-election, 1987
  
  
  • Cornwall Council election, 2009
  
  

Government of Cornwall[edit]

• Cornish Assembly


• 
  Cornwall Council
  
  • Cornwall Record Office


• Parliamentary representation from Cornwall


• Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament


• Shadow Minister for Cornwall


• South West Regional Assembly

Local government districts in Cornwall[edit]

• Penwith


• Kerrier


• Carrick, Cornwall


• Restormel


• North Cornwall


• Caradon

Constituencies[edit]

• European Parliament continuencies
  
  • Cornwall and Plymouth (European Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Cornwall and West Plymouth (European Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • South West England (European Parliament constituency)
  
  


• 
  UK Parliament constituencies
  
  • St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Falmouth and Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Truro and St Austell (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • South East Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Camborne and Redruth (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • St Austell and Newquay (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Truro and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Truro (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Bodmin (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Bossiney (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Callington (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Camelford (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • East Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • West Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • East Looe (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Fowey (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Grampound (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Helston (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Launceston (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Liskeard (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Newport (Cornwall) (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Penryn (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Penryn and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • St Austell (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • St Germans (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • St Mawes (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Saltash (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • Tregony (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  
  • West Looe (UK Parliament constituency)
  
  

Cornish politicians[edit]

• Mebyon Kernow


• 
  Andrew George MP for St. Ives


• 
  Julia Goldsworthy MP for Falmouth & Camborne


• 
  Matthew Taylor MP for Truro and St Austell


• 
  Scott Mann MP for Cornwall North


• 
  Colin Breed MP for South East Cornwall


• 
  Mark Prisk Shadow Minister for Cornwall

Law and order in Cornwall[edit]

• Constitutional status of Cornwall

Law enforcement in Cornwall[edit]

• Cornwall Police Force


• Falmouth Docks Police

Royal titles[edit]

• Duchy of Cornwall


• Duke of Cornwall


• Duchess of Cornwall


• High Sheriff of Cornwall


• Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall

Military in Cornwall[edit]

• Category:Military of the United Kingdom in Cornwall


• Vice-Admiral of Cornwall


• List of Cornish soldiers, commanders and sailors


• HMS Fisgard


• HMS Raleigh


• HMS St Austell Bay (K634)


• The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry


• Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry


• GCHQ Bude


• RNAS Culdrose


• RNAS Predannack


• RRH Portreath


• RAF Davidstow Moor


• RAF St Eval


• RAF St. Mawgan

History of Cornwall[edit]

History of Cornwall

• Timeline of Cornish history


• List of Cornish historians


• Battle of Deorham


• Celtic nations


• Clyst Heath


• Clyst St Mary


• Cornish saints


• Cornovii (Cornish)


• Cornwall (territorial duchy)


• Duchies in the United Kingdom


• Dumnonia


• Dumnonii


• Fowey Gallants


• Glasney College


• Keskerdh Kernow 500


• Lew Trenchard


• List of windmills in Cornwall


• Maps of Cornwall


• Perkin Warbeck


• Robert, Count of Mortain


• Royal charters applying to Cornwall


• Stannary Courts and Parliaments


• Stannary town


• Stateless nation


• Torrey Canyon


• Woodbury Common, Devon

History of Cornwall by period[edit]

• Cornish Uprising of 1497


• Cornish Uprising of 1497 - An Gof


• Cornish Uprising of 1497 - Thomas Flamank


• Second Cornish Uprising of 1497


• Act of Uniformity 1549


• Cornish Uprising of 1549


• Battle of Sampford Courtenay


• Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715


• Cornwall in the English Civil War


• Battle of Cornwall


• Battle of Lostwithiel


• The Gear Rout


• Cornish Foreshore Case


• Penlee lifeboat disaster


• Newlyn riots


• POW Camp 115, Whitecross, St. Columb Major


• Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament

History of Cornwall by subject[edit]

• List of former administrative divisions in Cornwall


• Bishop of Cornwall


• Cornish currency


• Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall


• History of the Duchy of Cornwall


• Earl of Cornwall


• Cornish emigration


• 
  Hundreds of Cornwall
  
  • Penwith (hundred)
  
  
  • Kerrier (hundred)
  
  
  • 
    Triggshire (hundred)
  
  


• Kiddlywink


• List of legendary rulers of Cornwall


• Old Cornish units of measurement


• History of mining in Cornwall and Devon


• Early Cornish Texts

Disasters[edit]

• Boscastle flood of 2004


• 
  Penlee lifeboat disaster (1981)


• Sikorsky S-61 disaster 1983


• Torrey Canyon oil spill


• 
  List of shipwrecks of Cornwall
  
  • List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (19th century)
  
  
  • List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (20th century)
  
  

Culture of Cornwall[edit]

Culture of Cornwall

• 
  Celtic culture
  
  • Modern Celts
  
  
  • Celtic Congress
  
  
  • Pan-Celticism
  
  
  • Anglo-Celtic
  
  


• Cornish clothes
  
  • Cornish tartans


• Festivals and events
  
  • Royal Cornwall Show


• Cornish heritage organisations
  
  • Federation of Old Cornwall Societies
  
  
  • 
    The Cornish Gorseth (Gorseth Kernow) (bards)
  
  
  • Royal Institution of Cornwall
  
  
  • Cornwall Record Office
  
  


• 
  Museums in Cornwall
  
  • Royal Cornwall Museum

The arts in Cornwall[edit]

• Dance of Cornwall
  
  • Cornish dance


• List of public art in Cornwall


• Theatre in Cornwall
  
  • Kneehigh Theatre

Architecture in Cornwall[edit]

• Bodmin Parish Church


• Cornwall Railway viaducts


• Eden Project


• Jamaica Inn


• Grade I listed buildings in Cornwall


• 
  Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall
  
  • Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall (A–G)
  
  
  • Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall (H–P)
  
  
  • Grade II* listed buildings in Cornwall (Q–Z)
  
  


• List of museums in Cornwall


• Railway stations in Cornwall


• Royal Albert Bridge


• St German's Priory


• Tamar Bridge


• Tate St Ives


• Truro Cathedral


• List of windmills in Cornwall

Castles and houses in Cornwall[edit]

• Launceston Castle


• Pendennis Castle


• Restormel Castle


• Trematon Castle


• Tintagel Castle


• Lanhydrock House


• Cotehele House


• Country houses in Cornwall


• Historic houses in Cornwall

Lighthouses in Cornwall[edit]

• Bishop Rock


• Eddystone Lighthouse


• Godrevy


• Lizard Lighthouse


• Longships


• Pendeen Lighthouse


• Round Island Light, Isles of Scilly


• St. Anthony's Lighthouse


• Tater Du Lighthouse


• Trevose Head Lighthouse


• Wolf Rock, Cornwall

Literature of Cornwall[edit]

Literature in Cornish

• Cornish novels
  
  • The Camomile Lawn
  
  
  • Frenchman's Creek
  
  
  • Jamaica Inn (novel)
  
  
  • 
    Proper Job, Charlie Curnow (novel)
  
  
  • The Poldark Novels
  
  
  • Rebecca (novel)
  
  


• Cornish writers

Cornish folklore[edit]

Cornish folklore

• Allantide


• Beast of Bodmin


• Chewidden Thursday


• Golowan


• Guise dancing


• Guldize


• Helston Furry Dance


• Kernewek Lowender


• Knocker (folklore)


• Mermaid of Zennor


• Nickanan Night


• Owlman


• Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales


• Picrous Day


• Pixie (folklore)


• St Piran's Day


• Tom Bawcock's Eve


• West Cornwall May Day celebrations

Media in Cornwall[edit]

Media in Cornwall

• Doc Martin


• Jamaica Inn (film)


• Rebecca (1940 film)


• Straw Dogs


• Wild West (sitcom)


• Wycliffe (TV series)

Music of Cornwall[edit]

Cornish music

• The Cornish National Anthem


• Genres
  
  • Britpop
  
  
  • Celtic music
  
  


• Bands
  
  • Thirteen Senses
  
  
  • The Onyx
  
  
  • Kubb (band)
  
  


• Instruments
  
  • Cornish bagpipes


• Musical works
  
  • The Pirates of Penzance
  
  
  • 
    Tintagel – symphonic poem composed by Arnold Bax in 1919; it is perhaps his best-known orchestral work.
  
  
  • 
    Four Cornish Dances by Malcolm Arnold
    
  
  


• 
  Cornish musicians
  
  • Al Hodge
  
  
  • Dudley Savage
  
  
  • Aphex Twin
  
  
  • Luke Vibert
  
  
  • Brenda Wootton
  
  

Cuisine of Cornwall[edit]

Cuisine of Cornwall

• Food
  
  • List of Cornish cheeses
  
  
  • Cornish pasty
  
  
  • Clotted cream
  
  
  • Cornish fairings
  
  
  • Cornish Gilliflower
  
  
  • Heavy cake
  
  
  • Hog's pudding
  
  
  • Saffron bun
  
  
  • Stargazy pie
  
  
  • Cornish Yarg
  
  


• Drink
  
  • Cyder
  
  
  • Meadery
  
  
  • Sharp's Brewery
  
  
  • Skinner's Brewery
  
  
  • St Austell Brewery
  
  

Icons of Cornwall[edit]

Flag of Cornwall.

• List of Cornish flags


• Cornish symbols


• Saint Piran's Flag


• The Song of the Western Men


• Bro Goth Agan Tasow

Language in Cornwall[edit]

• 
  Languages of Cornwall
  
  • 
    Cornish language
    
    • Modern Cornish
    
    
    • Unified Cornish
    
    
    • Anglo-Cornish
    
    
    • List of linguists and writers in Cornish
    
    
    • List of Cornish dialect words
    
    
    • Cornish surnames
    
    
    • Oggy Oggy Oggy
    
    
  
  
  • Kernowek Standard
  
  
  • Kernewek Kemmyn
  
  

Cornish words and names[edit]

• List of Cornish dialect words


• Emmet (Cornish)


• Penna (surname)


• Cornish surnames


• Treffry


• Baragwanath

Linguistics organizations[edit]

• Agan Tavas


• Kesva an Taves Kernewek


• Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek


• Cornish Language Council (Cussel an Tavas Kernuak)


• Dalleth

Linguists[edit]

• Vanessa Beeman


• John Boson (writer)


• Nicholas Boson


• Bernard Deacon


• Richard Gendall


• Ken George


• E. G. Retallack Hooper


• Henry Jenner


• Rod Lyon


• Robert Morton Nance


• Nicholas Williams

People of Cornwall[edit]

• Celts


• List of people from Cornwall


• 
  Cornish people
  
  • Cornish diaspora
  
  
  • Cornish people
  
  
  • Cornish saints
  
  
  • Cornish writers
  
  
  • List of Cornish artists, architects and craftspeople
  
  
  • List of Cornish Christians
  
  
  • List of Cornish engineers and inventors
  
  
  • List of Cornish geologists and explorers
  
  
  • List of Cornish historians
  
  
  • List of Cornish musicians
  
  
  • List of Cornish philanthropists
  
  
  • List of Cornish scientists and inventors
  
  
  • List of Cornish soldiers, commanders and sailors
  
  
  • List of Cornish sportsmen and sportswomen
  
  
  • List of Cornish writers
  
  
  • List of notable residents of Cornwall
  
  

Noble and notable families[edit]

• Earl of Cornwall


• Duke of Cornwall


• Duchess of Cornwall


• Great Cornish Families


• Fox family of Falmouth

Religion in Cornwall[edit]

• Religion in Cornwall
  
  • 
    Christianity in Cornwall
    
    • Archdeacon of Cornwall
    
    
    • List of Cornish saints
    
    
    • Bishop of Truro
    
    
    • Celtic Christianity
    
    
    • Diocese of Exeter
    
    
    • Diocese of Truro
    
    
    • List of notable Cornish Christians
    
    
    • Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth
    
    
    • Truro Cathedral
    
    

Sport in Cornwall[edit]

Economy and infrastructure of Cornwall[edit]

Economy of Cornwall

• 
  Agriculture of Cornwall
  
  • List of farms in Cornwall
  
  
  • Fishing in Cornwall
  
  
  • Royal Cornwall Show
  
  


• Communications in Cornwall
  
  • Media in Cornwall


• Companies based in Cornwall


• Economic development
  
  • South West Regional Assembly
  
  
  • South West of England Regional Development Agency
  
  

Mining in Cornwall[edit]

Mining in Cornwall

Transport in Cornwall[edit]

Transport in Cornwall

Air travel in Cornwall[edit]

• Bodmin Airfield


• British International Helicopters


• Isles of Scilly Skybus


• Land's End Airport


• Newquay Cornwall International Airport


• Penzance Heliport


• Perranporth Airfield


• St. Mary's Airport


• Tresco Heliport


• Truro Aerodrome

Rail transport in Cornwall[edit]

Railways (present day)[edit]

• Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall


• Cornish Main Line


• Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership


• Looe Valley Line


• Maritime Line


• Railway stations in Cornwall


• St Ives Bay Line


• Tamar Valley Line

Railways (heritage & history)[edit]

• Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway


• Cornish Riviera Express


• Cornwall Minerals Railway


• Cornwall Railway


• Cornwall Railway viaducts


• GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro


• Disused railway stations (Bodmin to Wadebridge line)


• Disused railway stations (Plymouth to Penzance Line)


• Helston Railway Preservation Company


• Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway


• Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway


• Truro and Newquay Railway


• Treffry Viaduct


• West Cornwall Railway

Roads in Cornwall[edit]

• A30


• A374


• A38


• 
  A39 (Atlantic Highway)

Buses and coaches in Cornwall[edit]

• First South West


• Truronian


• Western Greyhound

Maritime transport in Cornwall[edit]

Ships and boats in Cornwall[edit]

• Clio (barque)


• Falmouth Lifeboat Station


• Falmouth Quay Punt


• List of shipwrecks of Cornwall


• Penlee Lifeboat Station


• Scillonian (disambiguation)


• Spirit of Mystery


• Torpoint Ferry

Canals[edit]

• Bude Canal


• Liskeard & Looe Union Canal


• Par Canal


• Parnall's Canal


• St. Columb Canal

Healthcare in Cornwall[edit]

Healthcare in Cornwall – same as healthcare in England

• Ambulance services in Cornwall
  
  • Cornwall Air Ambulance


• Hospitals in Cornwall
  
  • Camborne Redruth Community Hospital
  
  
  • Bodmin Hospital
  
  
  • Royal Cornwall Hospital
  
  
  • St Michael's Hospital, Hayle
  
  
  • West Cornwall Hospital
  
  

Education in Cornwall[edit]

• List of museums in Cornwall


• List of schools in Cornwall


• Secondary education
  
  • Combined Universities in Cornwall
  
  
  • Cornwall College
  
  
  • Camborne School of Mines
  
  
  • Institute of Cornish Studies
  
  
  • Falmouth University
  
  
  • Glasney College
  
  
  • Tremough
  
  
  • University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
  
  

See also[edit]

• Index of Cornwall-related articles


• 
  Outline of the United Kingdom
  
  • Outline of England


• List of railway stations in Cornwall


• List of residents of Penzance


• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall


• List of Special Areas of Conservation in Cornwall


• List of foreign-language names for Cornwall


• Kernow - Cornish language Wikipedia

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Atlas of Cornwall

• Cornwall Council


• 
  Outline of Cornwall at Curlie (based on DMOZ)


• 
  Images of Cornwall at the English Heritage Archive
  


• 
  Online books, and library resources in your library and in other libraries about Outline of Cornwall