A new way to explore Cornwall.
Discover extraordinary people , fascinating places , dramatic history and the special events in our Cornish year .
After the Prayer Book Conflict, saints’ days were banned and maps no longer showed Cornwall as a separate nation.
During the Civil War, Sir Bevil Grenville had a personal bodyguard named Anthony Payne. Two metres tall, Anthony was nicknamed ‘the Cornish Giant’.
During the time of King Arthur, what we now call Cornwall was one of the most powerful places in Britain thanks to wealth from tin and trading.