CURIOUS CORNWALL
Written by B Trevail
Published by Tor Mark Press
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- CORNWALL
CURIOUS CORNWALL
Written by B Trevail.
Stock no. 1801938
Circa.
1971.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Tor Mark Press series. Yellow pictorial cardwrap booklet, 48 pages. B/w photos. Includes: Roche Rock; Cornish Crosses; Cornish China-Clay; The Lost Land of Lyonesse; The Old Wreckers; Billy Bray's Chapels; Cornwall's Ancient Language; Bodmin Moor and much more. Covers unevenly faded and grubby. Contents generally clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Mines beneath the sea
- The old wreckers
- Cornish china clay
- Bodmin Moor
- Roche Rock
- The lost land of Lyonesse
- Cornwall's Holy Men
- Gwennap Pit
- Cornwall's forgotten ports
- Cornish antiquities
- Cornish crosses
- The miner's parliament
- The dreaded Manacles
- Curious mine names
- Billy Bray's chapels
- Cornish 'castles'
- The Falmouth packets
- Dolcoath-a famous mine
- The Great County Adit
- Mine shafts by the thousand
- Padstow's Doom bar
- Pilchard seining
- Cornwall's ancient language