Qualla: Cape Cornwall https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/cape-cornwall-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cape Cornwall https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall Cape Cornwall: Introduction https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall/ Photo credit John Thomas Blight, Public domain. For most of recorded history, Cape Cornwall was the place where England ended. Sailors knew it. Mapmakers drew it. The fishermen of St Just took their boats out around the cape because past it the country itself ran out. Then in the early nineteenth century the Royal Ordnance Survey arrived with their theodolites and their trigonometry, and they discovered that Land's End, four miles to the south, was actually about half a mile farther west. The official title moved. The tourist coaches followed. Cape Cornwall kept its dignity and lost most of its visitors, which is exactly the bargain anyone who comes here now is glad it made.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/cape-cornwall-wp/gbgv-cape-cornwall-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cape Cornwall: The Goose's Back https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall/ Photo credit Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Cornish name for the headland is Penn Kernow, a modern back-translation. The older name, the one used by Cornish-speaking villagers for centuries, meant goose's back, a reference to the long curving silhouette of the cape seen from the south. The shape is precise: a hooked pr...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/cape-cornwall-wp/gbgv-cape-cornwall-the-gooses-back.mp3 0:06 2 full Cape Cornwall: Two Capes in Britain https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall/ Photo credit Kernow Skies, CC BY-SA 3.0. A cape, in strict geographical terms, is a point of land where two bodies of water meet. By that definition there are only two capes in the entire United Kingdom. Cape Cornwall is one. The other is Cape Wrath in the far northwest of Scotland, around 850 miles away by road and a d...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/cape-cornwall-wp/gbgv-cape-cornwall-two-capes-in-britain.mp3 0:06 3 full Cape Cornwall: Bronze Age Burials and a Medieval Chapel https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall/ Photo credit Kernow Skies, CC BY-SA 3.0. People have been coming to this point for at least three thousand years. Pottery recovered from stone-lined burial cists on the cape has been dated to the Late Bronze Age, marking Cape Cornwall as a place where the dead were laid down in roughly the same period that Ballowall Bar...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/cape-cornwall-wp/gbgv-cape-cornwall-bronze-age-burials-and-a-medieval-chapel.mp3 0:06 4 full Cape Cornwall: The Race From the Brisons https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall/ Photo credit John Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0. Once a year, the cape becomes a stadium. The Cape Cornwall Swim is held during a community sports event based on the beach at Priest Cove. Swimmers are boated out to the Brisons, the twin rocks rising from the swell a mile offshore, and dropped into the Atlantic. The race is back...

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