[Hooper] Someone asked, where is Linkinhorne?

Deanna Baumgardner diane at nrgrecording.com
Sat Oct 28 17:53:19 EDT 2006


Linkinhorne is in Cornwall, England and this is probably more than  
you ever wanted to know:
Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England on the  
peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar.
The administrative centre and only city is Truro, while the historic  
capitals are Launceston and then Bodmin. Including the Isles of  
Scilly, located 28 miles (45 km) offshore, Cornwall covers an area of  
1,376 square miles (3,563 km²). There is a population of 513,527,  
with a population density of 144 people per square kilometre, or 373  
per square mile.[1] Tourism forms a significant part of the local  
economy. However, Cornwall is the poorest area in the United Kingdom  
with the lowest contribution to the national economy[2] (just behind  
the Highlands and Island of Scotland and West Wales and the Valleys).  
Cornwall is the only area in the south of England to qualify for  
Objective One funding (GDP per capita for the region must be below  
75% of the EU average).[3]

Cornwall is one of the six historic "Celtic nations" and some people  
question the present constitutional status of Cornwall, choosing to  
refer to it as a Duchy which is separate from England. The Cornish  
language gradually died out as a spoken language during the 18th  
century, and by the mid 19th century was effectively extinct.  
However, there have been some attempts to revive it in more recent  
times.

But, hey, we had our own language, imagine that!  The current Duke of  
Cornwall is also The Prince of Wales and we have our own Prince!.



Deanna


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