Cornwall (UK)
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Cornwall (UK)
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 in her 1942 novel of that name. Although born in London and educated in Paris, she settled and spent most of her adult life in Cornwall, where the majority of her books are also set.', copy:'(Image © RM)'});)
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 lived around 1900. Just along the coast is the site of the Poldhu Wireless Station from where, on 12 December 1901, Marconi transmitted the first radio signal, a letter ‘S,’ across the Atlantic to St John\'s in Nova Scotia.', copy:'(Image © RM)'});)
. In October 1917, with the war worsening and suspicion falling on all German nationals in the UK, Lawrence and his wife were ordered to leave Cornwall.', copy:'(Image © RM)'});)
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 at the Poldhu Wireless Station, near Lizard Point in Cornwall. Lizard Point is the most southerly point on mainland Britain.', copy:'(Image © RM)'});)
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County in southwest England including the Isles of Scilly (Scillies).
Area
(excluding Scillies) 3,550 sq km/1,370 sq mi
Towns and cities
Truro (administrative headquarters), Camborne, Launceston; Bude, Falmouth, Newquay, Penzance, St Ives (resorts)
Physical
Bodmin Moor (including Brown Willy 419 m/1,375 ft); Land's End peninsula; rivers Camel, Fal, Fowey, Tamar
Features
St Michael's Mount; Poldhu, site of first transatlantic radio signal (1901); the Stannary or Tinners' Parliament; Tate St Ives art gallery; the Mineral Tramways Project, which aims to preserve the mining landscape, once the centre of the world's hard-rock mining industry; Eden Project, two ‘biomes’ (tropical rainforest and Mediterranean) built in a disused china-clay pit near St Austell, formed a Millennium Commission Landmark Project, the first part of which opened in 2000; the ‘Lost’ Gardens of Heligan; the Minack Theatre, carved from the cliff face at Porthcuno
Agriculture
crops are early in some places: fruit, oats, and vegetables, including swedes, turnips, and mangolds (a root vegetable used as cattle fodder); spring flowers; cattle and sheep rearing; dairy farming; fishing (Mevagissey, Newlyn, and St Ives are the principal fishing ports)
Industries
tourism; electronics; kaolin (a white clay used in the manufacture of porcelain; St Austell is the main centre for production)
Population
(1996) 483,300
Famous people
John Betjeman, Humphry Davy, Daphne Du Maurier, William Golding
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