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Cornwall

Cornwall
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About Cornwall

Cornwall is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, Devon to the east, and the English Channel to the south. The largest urban area is the Redruth and Camborne conurbation.

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The most recent glacial maximum covered most of the UK, but it didn't cover Cornwall, because it didn't get that far south.

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More facts about Cornwall

  1. You can use horse urine to grow pineapples, which they do at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.

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  2. Radiation levels are higher in Cornwall than anywhere else in the UK.

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  3. Cornwall is king of daffodils.

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  4. Cornwall is quite behind the times in some aspects, and yet it had Tesco plastic bags as early as the 1400s.

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Coordinates: 50.4000, -4.9000

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