Etymology. The name Cape Cornwall appeared first on a maritime chart around the year 1600. The original Cornish name, Kilgoodh Ust, has fallen out of use. In English it translates to "goose-back at St Just", a reference to the shape of the cape. An alternative name, Pen Kernow, is a recent translation back to Cornish of the English. A cape is the point of land where two bodies …

Parish councils are civil local authorities found in England which are the lowest tier of local government. They are elected corporate bodies, with variable tax raising powers, and they carry out beneficial public activities in geographical areas known as civil parishes.There are about 9,000 parish and town councils in England, and over 16 million people live in communities served by …

Financial arrangements. The principal activity of the duchy is the management of its land holdings in England of 135,000 acres or 55,000 ha. This includes 7,571 ha or 18,710 acres of land in Cornwall itself which comprises 13% of the whole Duchy estate. Half of the estate is on Dartmoor in Devon, with other large holdings in Herefordshire, Somerset and almost all of the Isles of Scilly.

Redruth (/ r ə ˈ d r uː θ / rə-DROOTH, Cornish: Resrudh) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England.The population of Redruth was 14,018 at the 2011 census. In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also includes Carn Brea, Illogan and several satellite villages, stood at 55,400 making it the largest conurbation in Cornwall.

Cadoc of Cornwall. Cadoc of Cornwall, Earl of Cornwall before the Conquest, paid homage to William for the Earldom (not attested until William of Worcester four centuries later); Earls of Cornwall, 1st creation (1068) Brian of Brittany (c. 1040–1084 or 85), resigned c. 1072; Earls of Cornwall, 2nd creation (c. 1072) Robert, Count of Mortain (c. 1038–1095), half-brother of …

Parliamentary history of Cornwall. All six parliamentary seats are currently held by Conservatives, having came from holding no seats in 1997, 2001 and 2005, to gaining three of the six from the Liberal Democrats in 2010, to gaining the remaining three to hold all six Cornish seats in 2015.All six MPs were re-elected in 2017.In that election, several previous Liberal Democrat candidates ...

A further review was initiated in 2007 and was enacted in 2009. The review established Cornwall and Northumberland as counties of a single district; established unitary authorities in County Durham, Shropshire and Wiltshire covering the part of the county that was not already split off in the 1990s review; and divided the remainder of Bedfordshire and Cheshire into two unitary …

The geography of Cornwall (Cornish: Doronieth Kernow) describes the extreme southwestern peninsula of England west of the River Tamar.The population of Cornwall is greater in the less extensive west of the county than the east due to Bodmin Moor's location; however the larger part of the population live in rural areas. It is the only county in England bordered by only one other …

History. The Gunggari language region of South West Queensland includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Maranoa Region particularly the towns of Mitchell, Amby, Dunkeld and Mungallala and the properties of Forest Vale and North Yanco.. Gungabula (also known as Kongabula and Khungabula) is an Australian Aboriginal language of the headwaters …

Etymology. The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *ner-, meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word borealis comes from the Greek boreas "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was …