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Largest town in Cornwall?

I am not sure about St Austell being the largest town by population.
Have a look at this....

Restormel Borough Council website says that St Austell, Porthpean and Tregrehan - have a population of 19,710
Camborne Town Council Web Site states 'The Town of Camborne has population of approximately 22,500

Talskiddy 18:38, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

According to the UK 2001 Census (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/census2001/ks_ua_ew_part1.pdf, Table KS01, page 30), the population of St. Austell is 22,658, more than Truro at 20,920. Also at http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/towns/staustell/staustell.htm, St. Austell is said to be the largest town, however the population figure is doubtful. The census information for Redruth and Camborne is given together, so I haven't found invididual data for Camborne. A bit more web searching and I can give you an answer :-) --Joowwww 20:07, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article requests

Does anyone have any requests for articles that they would like to see featured on the portal?Mammal4 12:03, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cornwall stub

Does anyone else think it could be helpful to have a 'Cornwall stub' to use on stubs that don't fall into the 'Cornwall geo stub'; eg people, foods, books, etc relating to Cornwall? DuncanHill 17:32, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This has been proposed before and was rejected by the powers that be as there aren't enough pages. In principle I'm not against the idea. Mammal4 15:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Cornwall stub has been approved and is up and running - please add {{Cornwall-stub}} to relevant articles when editing. I hope people find it useful. DuncanHill 17:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stannary parliament - Only active veto of legislation ?

The 1508 Charter states, "No [Westminster] Act or Statute shall have effect in the Stannaries without the assent and consent of the twenty-four stannators." Acting in its capacity as appeal court for the colonies, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has declared that any reference to The Stannaries means the whole of Cornwall. I think this means that no act made after the last meeting of the Stannery parliament can have any effect in Cornwall. The right to "veto the legislation", as stated in the article sounds like the parliament had to make a dicision to stop the acts. Does anybody know which laws before the last meeting were not assented? And what sense does the sentence "The 1508 Charter states, "No [Westminster] Act or Statute shall have effect in the Stannaries without the assent and consent of the twenty-four stannators." Acting in its capacity as appeal court for the colonies, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has declared that any reference to The Stannaries means the whole of Cornwall." I didn't know Cornwall was a colony.--Son sonson 07:43, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Duke of Cornwall

I just added the sentence "The current Duke of Cornwall is Charles, Prince of Wales heir to the throne of the United Kingdom." to the intro as I thought it was important enought to merit inclusion. --Camaeron (talk) 20:47, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK Cornish language

DYK that several Cornish mining words are still in use in English language mining terminology, such as costean, gunnies, and vug. ^[1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Talskiddy (talk • contribs) 21:18, 23 May 2009

Added to DYK, thanks. It won't show up on the portal main page until the 7th section has a few more. --Joowwww (talk) 22:31, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms by American Geological Institute and U S Bureau of Mines (pages 128, 249, and 613)

s:Portal:Cornwall

I have started up the corresponding portal at English Wikisource to start to capture Cornwall specific and related text. I am starting to populate with works that have been transferred to Wikisource. — billinghurst sDrewth 13:14, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Quote nomination

Portal:Cornwall/Selected quote/Layout Talskiddy (talk) 14:48, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Doc Martin?

How can this article forget the character that put Cornwall on the map on the telly: Martin Clunes' portrayal of Doc Martin ?174.18.6.30 (talk) 14:21, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Penzance?

DYK that Penzance in Cornwall was, obviously, the setting for Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance ?174.18.6.30 (talk) 14:25, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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2020 updates and additions

This portal had not received any new article additions for quite some time, since at least 17 May 2018 (UTC) (perm link), so I expanded the Selected article section with the following articles listed below. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:42, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FA-class articles: Doom bar, Loss of MV Darlwyne
FL-class article: List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall
GA-class articles: Cornish people, St Mawes Castle, Penhallam, Pasty, Bal maiden

The following updates have been performed to the portal today. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:36, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Added GA-class articles: Oliver's Battery, Tresco, Tamar Bridge
Added FL-class article: List of Cornwall County Cricket Club List A players
Added some B-class articles to diversify and round-out the portal, to provide a more comprehensive topical overview:

Penzance, Blowing house, Cornwall Railway, Tetha, Daphne du Maurier, History of Cornwall, Eden Project, Cuthbert Mayne, Tintagel, John Arnold (watchmaker), Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Camelford water pollution incident, Ulmus minor 'Stricta', St Carantoc's Church, Crantock, Edward Boscawen, Cape Cornwall Mine

Political divisions?

Greetings! I'm a stub sorter, trying to figure out how to split Category:Cornwall geography stubs to make more manageable sub-categories. I can't tell what constitutes the next level of Cornish administration below the Cornwall Council; I've considered parishes, parliamentary constituencies, even National Character Areas, but none seems suitable. Can anyone here advise me? Her Pegship (?) 19:42, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Pegship: Hi! First off, thanks for your work - it's a big job that's been needing doing. Cornwall's been a unitary authority since 2009, so there's not really an easy answer but I'll try and give some suggestions... Parishes is an option, but with a few hundred, probably not feasible. Rural/Urban Districts (governmental districts in from the 1930s to 1970s, can be found in Category:Local government in Cornwall) could work as they're drawn along surprisingly strong lines in regards identity and geo-societal trends, but they're kind of old school and it would be harder to find more exact boundaries that would probably be needed to sort geography stubs. Constituencies are probably set to change every decade or so from now on, so not a very stable way to sort stubs.

I would say there's two main suggestions: Cornwall's medieval hundreds which divide the Duchy into ten parts (Penwith, Kerrier, Pydar, Trigg (or Triggshire), Powder, Lesnewth, Stratton, East, West, and Scilly) or the six former government districts (pre-unitary authority; Caradon, Carrick, Kerrier, North Cornwall, Penwith, and Restormel) plus the Isles of Scilly.

Personally, I would probably go with the hundreds because of the historical significance plus differences in size and population between some of the former districts (Restormel had 95,000+ in 2001 compared to 63,000 in Penwith and just a few thousand on the IoS; the northern districts are much bigger geographically too), but it also depends on what you think would work best from the stub sorting POV. If there's anything else, just ping me. Gazamp (talk) 00:02, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much! I'll take these suggestions to the stub proposals. Thanks for your speedy reply - Her Pegship (?) 05:04, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New series template

Please see the new series template "Template:History of Cornwall" and feel free to make additions. Thanks Titus Gold (talk) 21:45, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is an issue with the county mislabelling the moore one digs into the law, it just is not correct; ( "THE CASE AGAINST THE PROPOSED CROSS-BORDER “BIDEFORD, BUDE AND LAUNCESTON” PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY" )

Two established and essential legal points to remember:

“The whole territorial interest and dominion of the Crown in and over the entirety of Cornwall is vested in the Duke of Cornwall”, confirming that Cornwall has a separate Head of State from the remainder of the UK. This was upheld in the High Court in 1855, during the Duchy v Crown Foreshore dispute, and again as recently as 2011.

“Although Cornwall is de facto administered by England, a formal de jure joinder of Cornwall and England has never taken place.” (G.D Flather, Queen’s Counsel attached to the Boundary Commission 1988).

These remain undisputed at law. 85.94.248.27 (talk) 09:54, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms by American Geological Institute and U S Bureau of Mines (pages 128, 249, and 613)

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