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Edited Apr 27, 2014, 19:27
Re: A Separate Place
Apr 27, 2014, 19:24
And the Romans barely bothered with Cornwall. Nor did the Angles, Saxons, Vikings or (to a large degree) Normans. The Irish saints paid more attention to Cornwall than any of the invaders of "England" did. So there's almost inevitably a significant difference in heritage and culture, as well as no doubt in ancestry. The view from Cornwall is Atlantic facing, not up-country facing.

Personally, I think there's also a difference between Cornwall west of Bodmin moor (and even more so Cornwall west of Hayle River) and elsewhere in the county though. East of the moor has a closer affinity to Devon, which is a decidedly more "English" county in my view, for all the wildness of Dartmoor.

[edited for annoyingly unnecessary apostrophe]
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