
Cornwall: a brief history
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The History of Cornwall
When does Cornwall become subsumed into the wider English polity? Yeah, again, that's a very complicated question and doesn't really have a clear answer. We're dealing with the shady, hazy, murky, contradictory, fragmentary Anglo-Saxon chronicles for our sources around this. And it's very hard to absolutely pin it down. But somewhere between the 7th and the 10th century as Anglo- Saxon Wessex rises and pushes its way west,. then becomes the point around which a wider English state gathers and conglomerates. Somewhere in amongst that, Cornwall seems to have gone from being something that was set against that as an independent entity to something that was in some
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