Cornwall, England 

Wir besuchten Cornwall erstmals 1992 und danach noch sehr oft - immer wieder sehr schön! Auch GB ist überall eine Reise wert. Liebe Grüße aus Germany.

Pretty neat, as Americans would say. Thanks for your plug for using public transport. In summer a fantastic open top bus runs between Land's End along the coast to St Ives. I think we would say St Ives is a town, not village.

I was glade to learn Cornish language is alive. And Cornish pasty is just delicious!!! I found the places in USA who ship it. Not as good as Cornish.

Thank you for this video America Dennis Callan for Coming to Penzance I live in Penzance and find it beautiful, many live hear but some dont realise the history behind it and the importants of tourists. THANKYOU from David 53 AND MY GRAN DAUGHTER

Enjoyed the tour! Thank you! :-)

Great narration. Thank you.

For anyone interested, Cornwall is officially England. It may not have been in the past, but it is now. And I live here.

Wow this video of Cornwall brings alive Enid Blyton's books I read in my childhood...

Nicely done. I love Cornwall.

I thought that Admiral Benbow inn was a fictional part to Treasure Island. Even though I have been to Penzance - and insisted that my friend watch Treasure Island before the visit - I did not know this. Great film. I was there last in 2005 - I hope to make another visit before long!

Awesome video. Looks like the late 80's.

Thankyou for this video.enjoyed it thoroughly.I love it.Cheers and thanks

Just as point of interest, the bus from Penzance to Land's End would have probably passed through St Buryan where the movie STRAW DOGS with Dustin Hoffman was made in 1971.

This is great, this is your home land, you are home so don't treat it like a holiday destination, where do you think you came from - you got it - England

haha great film! and glad you enjoyed the cornish hospitality! i used to work for the taxi driver at end of film.

I'm in the US, but I really want to visit England. I think Cornwall is the place I'd like to see first. I look at images of Cornwall on google earth and it looks like the nicest part of England.

Cornwall is as much English as Wales or Scotland !!

Wonderful to see our American 'friends' enjoying our country. ?

I love England! The entire southern coast should be marketed as one of the most pleasant summer destinations for those who don't like the Mediterranean heat. Just like many Brits like to go down to Spain to bake in the sun, I bet many Spaniards and others would like to escape the scorching sun for a while. I was in and around Exeter last summer and truly enjoyed it. Cheers ;-)

I live in Herefordshire, which is in the west of England, close to the border with Wales. I am very familiar with Wales, its language and its culture. I have a friend who lives in Lelant, very close to St Ives, Cornwall and I visit her from time to time. The historical and linguistic links between Cornwall and Wales are so very apparent, and you can see the similarities between Cornish place names and Welsh place names. The same applies on the other side of the English Channel in the Brittany region of north west France....Breton is similar to Cornish and Welsh...all known as the Celtic Fringe.

May have been uploaded in 2009 but this looks a lot older than that.

Hawaii is part of the US, officially but the native population are ethnic Hawaiians whom are Polynesian people but the live alongside non Hawaiians. Cornwall is home to ethnic Cornish people of whom are Celtic but also English people live there in holiday homes.

amazing place always will love it. part of England yet so different

@MultiRory1 I am of Irish blood and the county I am from also has a huge Celtic population (3rd biggest in England) I am also a proud Englishman... the county I am from has also been left to rot in poverty since the end of the industrial revolution. if you think your the only ones that the folk in London have lied to you are wrong.

Being British!Seeing this!Ipmsl.!!!!

Cornwall is the best place on Earth.

For anyone who is confused as to what the Cornish are (celtic or English) the answer is they are both much like the whole of western England. Western-England (north west and south west) is full of Celtic blood so why the Cornish feel the need to shout about something that is not at all rare is beyond anyone. As for cd2rules he has allready said he has italian blood in him so you cant be a celtic nationalist when your not a celt...

cornwall is part of england on paper work. but not truly, cornwall will always have a seperate identity to england. it is 1 of the celtic nations

find it great this area Cornwall ;-) (marie) want to visite..

Nigel Clackworthy Cornwall _used_ to have its own royal family and currency, so did East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria and Sussex. That was a long fucking time ago though so it doesn't bloody count!

Not a problem, anytime :)

FYI. If you're including Northern Ireland it's the UK, not Great Britain.

@vortigern5 Yes, well, that makes it all perfectly clear now.

Johnathan, If it belongs to England, then it is part of England, you cannot separate the two!

Cornwall is a great part of England for the whole family to relax and to take some time out. It has one of the most beautiful coasts.

For gods sake can't people stop arguing and getting abusive and just ENJOY THE VIDEO. If you want to start harping on about Cornwall/England etc etc then do it down the pub in the real world, not on RU-vid.

Dang! Can't believe this is 2009.. looks like 90's...

Original paintings of Cornwall by Cornish artist on ebay. Just type Cornish art sale in the search bar. Most have start price of £15.

Super video... but he says the next piece of land after Lands End is America, but it's actually Newfoundland, Canada!

You're right, my mistake. I know how important the constitutional status of Cornwall is to the natives. We have very good friends who live in St. Austell and guided us through the area from St. Ives, Michael's Mount up toward Devon. Native to Cornwall, they are the best at the history of the place. Thanks for clarifying my error. We do want to go back; it is a great place.

In Kernow there are Cornish and English people.

I want to live here.

@reflectoessis3 cornish and welsh are the ancestors of the original britons (of king arthur and merlin fame)...this is the huge irony lol x

cornwall used to have its own royal family and currency so yes Cornwall is a country full stop

The Admiral Benbow Inn has nothing to do with the Pirates of Penzance musical. The Admiral Benbow Inn is the fictional home of Jim Hawkins in the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. That is why there is a pirate on the roof.

It's a shame the sky wasn't blue with the sun shining.

@3tangle3 im cornish... we are thinking about being our own county but no we will always be a part of cornwall x

great video. when was this recorded?

We usually drive down twice a year, this looks to be about the early 90s?

correct me if i am wrong, please, but was devon not part of cornwall at one point? or were theyboth part of a bigger nation or kingdom? oh, why do people leave out the apostrophe in land's end and john o'groat's?! why not just call the latter john o'groat?

And yet here you are speaking it.

@NumberDne If you read your history books you will see that historically Cornwall is not part of England. Many Cornish people, myself included, do not consider themselves English. Cornwall has its own specific language, culture and way of life, which has become so very popular with English people. Poltically Cornwall may be classified as part of England. We can only hope that one day this situation will change, and we will enjoy the same status as that of Cymru or Alba.

Reachwun - Cornish did not die. That is the myth. Native speakers, admittedly only a few of them, were still alive when the revival began in 1904.

They missed out one of the best beaches, Porthemmet.

Mr. S. genius @ Sur, mez my a yll ha my a wra kewsel kerneweg ynwedh, keffryz ha nebez yethow moy. Koynt kyn fe dhys, yma tuz yn byz-ma a woer kewsel moy ez unn tavez.

This video must be at least 20 years old

plus, I don't think this gentleman realised that Cornwall is not the same as an English county...:-)

The taxi driver who took them back to the station is still driving taxis!

Is this video from the mid 90's?

Cornwall may belong to England - that doesn't mean it's part of England. Kernow Bys Vykken !

So the USA is just Canada South?

no mention about wales did you go to wales

Nyns yw Kernow yn Pow an Sowsen; NESSA dhe Bow an Sowsen ywa. "English" are we? Then what language is that?

@ChrissieMadIpod London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff. Not exactly rural.

Benny, take a good look at the 10-year genetic survey by Oxford Uni./Wellcome Trust headed by Sir Walter Bodmer. It shows that the Cornish (and the Welsh) are the original post Ice-Age inhabitants of Britain, several thousand years before the English peoples moved here from northern Germany from c.450 AD. The results can even tell a Cornishman from a Devonian. Yes, this is the 21st century, when we should be celebrating diversity, not ridiculing it.

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@Mctagster why boast-all those with Cornish names have families going back to the 1500s or b4 (which means they r from ancient Cornish stock as people did not go far from their place of birth) my own go back as far in old Pydar and Powder... Re:calling yourself Cornish and English,I am sorry it just is not possible to be both Cornish and English. In any event even for those with some English ancestry the time to decide between one or the other is now fast approaching. Each man to his own fate..

To all those people who say Cornwall is England..why dont you look down the right hand side of you tube and see all the videos explaining why Cornwall is not a part of England. It is a part of the UK and Great Britain. Cornwall is a duchy, has a stannary parliament never dissolved and its own language. Prehistorically the archaeological evidence shows a difference too, akin to the west of Ireland and the west of France. Please look up your history. Unfortunately it is not taught in schools

@Mctagster Well said. Why can't people just leave you to decide your own interpretation of who you are & how you relate to the land of your birth.. Anyone would think they owned it. I love Cornwall, it is a beautiful spot but it does get tiring sometimes listening to all this talk. Someone posted a video of their lovely holiday & somehow it's turned into a platform for people to argue? I don't get it. Live & let live people. You see it as part of England,good for you, they don't, no big deal

Cornwall is not England.

@tommyboomboom well?

It has been for the past 1,300 years.

@left888 - People Please Read What this man has written - He Has Written the Truth. Cornwall is as ancient as the concept of the British Isles. Long Live Corineus Our Lord and King.

@FLYINR85 I think these people should apologise to a nice Canadian person like yourself. Hope you understand we get a bit irritated that people think everyone in Britain is English. All the best, Ian

Kernow is a dutchy.

Penzance has really gone downhill since this was filmed, it's a shame

You're right, I'm just pissed that these people don't acknowledge it. Guys, ever heard of the Cornwall Duchy? There's a Duchy college and all and you missed it?

@3tangle3 According to you.

whiteby..you need to learn history. William is a name of Germanic origin meaning of the helm (helmet). Williams is a surname of Welsh origin. During that time the Welsh dropped the usage of ap (mc, mac, son of) and placed an s at the end of the name to show lineage instead. The name originated in the Welsh marches. I am a Williams myself. Also, there is NO Celtic ethnicity. Celts is a broad title given to a culture, not an ethnic origin. Thats a common misunderstanding it seems. No pure Celts.

@newquayfti And the Parliament? Oh i must have missed that as well or is that because its in fantasy land with talking frogs and magic trees. Get back on the bong met, Right on

Hay man you know these comments you are getting about there is know proper Cornish people in cornwall how I'm I alive becose I am proper Cornish

GO CORNWALL IM CORNISH AND PROUD OF IT!!!!!!! Yippee i live in redruth

l thought it was always part of England, where else could it have belonged to?

they are probably of irish catholic heritage

Not a very accurate statement on my part. Sorry. I will do better! Thanks!

@simplyanimal4 Its good their not english they are a celtic people who are very friendly.

Just like a typical foreign tourist video i'd've expected. However this video sounds dated and maybe tourists should learn there is more to cornwall than St Ives, St Michaels Mount and Mousehole, even by public transport. And also didn't show some of the best angles of the places that were shown and St Ives isn't as rugged as mentioned, in fact its got the best dunes nearby at Hayle and sandy beaches in the UK. All in all though not too bad, could've been worse.

Cornish devolution all the way.

It is though! -_-

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Pre-colonisation by the USA, Hawaii had a nice polynesian language, nearly all vowels, very melodious. Now rapidly following Cornish to oblivion, English is the worlds worst killer language, it destroys everything it touches, like some kind of plague.

St micheals mt

Mousehole......I know it well - a lovely little village overlooking St Mount's Bay....I only hope that these Americans soon learned NOT to pronounce the name Mousehole as you might think they might! As the guy said - it's MAOO-ZL" Watch out for those strange Cornish place names. Fowey is "Foy" and Launceston is "LAWN-stun"

If his ancestors are cornish, they are nothing to do with the english, Cornwall is celtic and in terms of wars, Corwall battled against the english

Cornwall is governed from London - that doesn't make it part of England. Its history and culture are quite distinct.

well said mate , thank god they are only in a minority

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It is not Mount St. Michael, it is Marazion. Always Marazion. In my language, Cornish, this means Jewish Mount. Some people have come to call it St.Michael's Mount after the one in France. Why didn't you interview some Cornish people???

research for yourself people - the truth is out there....

True. The Cornish are very strange like that. Many think its because of the inbreeding.