Lanhydrock
Lanhydrock is a country estate south of Bodmin, with a house that is largely Victorian and partly of the 1620s, Grade I listed, at the centre of an estate of 360 hectares. In Kernewek it is Lannhedrek, the church enclosure of Saint Hydrock. The estate came to the Agar-Robartes family, and it has been owned […]
Jamaica Inn
Jamaica Inn stands on Bodmin Moor near Bolventor, just off the A30, and it has kept the road for a long time. An inn has stood here since 1547; the present building was raised as a coaching inn in 1750 and extended in 1778 with a coach house and stables. The name is said to […]
Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery
The Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery in Truro, long known as the Royal Cornwall Museum, was established in 1818 and is run by the Royal Institution of Cornwall. It occupies a Grade II building of 1845 that began life as the Truro Savings Bank and later served Henderson's Mining School. The collections The mineral collection […]
Geevor Tin Mine
Geevor Tin Mine stands between Pendeen and Trewellard in west Cornwall. In Kernewek it is Hwel an Gever, the mine of the goats. It worked from 1911 until 1990, and the site is now a museum and heritage centre where the buildings, the machinery and the tunnels still stand. Down the shaft Victory shaft drops […]
PK Porthcurno
PK Porthcurno is the Museum of Global Communications, at Porthcurno on the far west coast. It opened in May 1998 in the former telegraph facility, and it tells the story of the cables that came ashore here. Porthcurno was the landing point for many submarine telegraph cables, transatlantic and beyond, which made this small valley […]
Pendennis Castle
Pendennis Castle stands on the headland at the mouth of the Fal, guarding Carrick Roads and the sea approach to Falmouth. In Kernewek it is Kastel Penndinas. It was built between 1540 and 1542 by Henry VIII as part of the chain of coastal defences he raised against France and the Holy Roman Empire, and […]
Bodmin Jail
Bodmin Jail stands on the edge of Bodmin Moor, on the eastern side of Bodmin. It was designed by Sir John Call and built in 1779 by prisoners of war, and it was the first British prison to hold prisoners in individual cells. It served for 150 years and closed in 1927; Cornwall has had […]
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
The National Maritime Museum Cornwall stands on the waterfront at Falmouth, in a building opened in February 2003. In Kernewek it is Gwithti Morek Kenedhlek Kernow. It grew out of a partnership formed in 1992 between the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and the former Cornwall Maritime Museum, and it is an independent charity: unlike […]
Tate St Ives
Tate St Ives is an art gallery above Porthmeor Beach, showing modern British artists with links to the town and its light. It was built between 1988 and 1993 on the site of an old gasworks, designed by the architects Eldred Evans and David Shalev, and it opened in June 1993 as the second Tate […]
Land’s End
Land's End is the headland at the far west of mainland England, about 8 miles from Penzance at the end of the A30, and it is where the land runs out. In Kernewek it is Penn an Wlas. The granite of the cliffs is old even by Cornish standards: it was laid down between 268 […]