Travel Cornwall Map

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Cornwall tourist guide map of landmarks & destinations by Walkfo

Cornwall history

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Prehistory, Roman and post-Roman periods

The area now known as Cornwall was first inhabited in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods . It continued to be occupied by Neolithic and Bronze-Age people . During the British Iron Age, Cornwall was inhabited by a Celtic people known as the Britons . Tin, required for the production of bronze, was a relatively rare and precious commodity in the Bronze Age .

Conflict with Wessex

Battle of Deorham in 577 saw the separation of Dumnonia (and therefore Cornwall) from Wales, following which the Dumnonii often came into conflict with the expanding English kingdom of Wessex .

Breton–Norman period

By this time the native Cornish landowning class had been almost completely dispossessed and replaced by English landowners, particularly Harold Godwinson . Two leading Cornish figures nominally had Saxon names, but these were both glossed with Cornish names .

Later medieval administration and society

Stannary parliaments and stannary courts were legislative and legal institutions in Cornwall and in Devon (in the Dartmoor area) The Cornish language continued to be spoken and acquired a number of characteristics establishing its identity as a separate language from Breton . During the 17th and 18th centuries Cornwall was a major smuggling area .

Heraldry

The name appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 891 as On Corn walum . In the Domesday Book it was referred to as Cornualia and in 1198 as Cornwal . Other names for the county include a latinisation of the name as Cornubia .

  

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