Summary
THE allegation by a correspondent that Cornwall Council has become a laughing stock for deciding to buy all its future road signs in English and Cornish touches a raw nerve in the so-called Celtic identity of the present administrative county.
It is claimed that after a number of battles between the West Saxons and Cornish Celts the border between the two was fixed on the east bank of the River Tamar. That may have been the case in the south, but there's evidence that some time in the 9th century the Wessex-based Saxon church acquired estates and established monasteries in the part of North Cornwall where I live, 30 miles to the west of the Tamar around a navigable tributary of the River Camel, the Amble. That means the Saxons would have also controlled the sea approaches to the Camel and what is now Padstow.See the full content of this document
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Absurd Dual Language Signs ; Letters
It's relevant history that makes the council's decision to imp...
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