User:DuncanHill/Cornwall Resources
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This is a collection of resources relevant to Cornwall.
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[edit] Online
A Cornish Sourcebook courtesy of Cornovia
Victoria County History for Cornwall
St Keverne Local History Society
An Daras Cornish Cultural resources
Cornwall County Library online catalogue
Cornwall County Council Interactive mapping
Cornwall type localities my list of minerals with type localities in Cornwall.
The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, in the Mineralogical Magazine
London Gazette search engine - not Cornwall-specific, but very useful.
[edit] Books in my collection
[edit] Biographies
- Richard Trevithick Giant of Steam by Anthony Burton, ISBN 1854108786
- A Radical Aristocrat - Sir William Molesworth of Pencarrow by Alison Adburgham, ISBN 090701884x
- 101 Cornish Lives by Maurice Smelt, ISBN 0906720508
[edit] Mines and Geology
- The Geology of Cornwall ed. E. B. Selwood, E. M. Durrance, and C. M. Bristow, ISBN 0859894320
- An Introduction to the Geology of Cornwall by R. M. Barton
- Minerals of Cornwall and Devon by P. G. Embrey & R. F. Symes, ISBN 0565009893
- A History of Tin Mining and Smelting in Cornwall by D. B. Barton, ISBN 1871060036
- A History of Copper Mining in Cornwall and Devon by D. B. Barton
- A Guide to the Mines of West Cornwall by D. B. Barton
- Cornwall's Central Mines - The Northern District 1810 - 1895 by T. A. Morrison, ISBN 0906720109
- Cornwall's Central Mines - The Southern District 1810 - 1895 by T. A. Morrison, ISBN 0906720117
- Mines of Cornwall and Devon - An Historic Photographic Record by Peter Stanier, ISBN 0906294401
- The Hensbarrow Granite District by J. H. Collins, F.G.S, ISBN 0951941917
- A Richly Yielding Piece of Ground - The story of Fowey Consols Mine near St Blazey by Jim Lewis, ISBN 190014705x
- Bailiff of Blackmoor - An examination of the history, laws and customs of medieval and sixteenth century tinners by Thomas Beare, ed. J. A. Buckley, ISBN 1871678064
- A Collector's Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Gemstones in Cornwall and Devon by Cedric Rogers
- Cornwall's Geological Heritage by Peter Stanier, ISBN 0906294223
- Cornwall's China Clay Heritage by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit, ISBN 0906294258
- South West Granite by Peter Stanier, ISBN 1900147130
- The Plymouth Area - Geologists Association Guide no. 38
- The North Coast of Cornwall from Bude to Tintagel - Geologists Association Guide no.10
- West Cornwall - Geologists Association Guide no. 19
- Present Views of Some Aspects of the Geology of Cornwall and Devon ed. K. F. G. Hosking and G. J. Shrimpton, RGSC, 1964
- British Regional Geology - South-West England, by the British Geological Survey, ISBN 0118807137
[edit] General History
- Revolt in the West - The Western Rebellion of 1549 by John Sturt, ISBN 0861147766
- Devon and Cornwall Airfields in the Second World War by Graham Smith, ISBN 185306632x
- Operation Cornwall 1940-1944, The Fal, the Helford and D-Day by Viv Acton & Derek Carter, ISBN 1873443145
- The Boscastle Flood by The Journal of Meteorology, ISSN 0307-5966
- The Falmouth Packets 1689 - 1851 by Tony Pawlyn, ISBN 1850221758
- Cornwall Since The War ed. Philip Payton, ISBN 1850220735
[edit] Archaeology
- Cornovia - Ancient Sites of Cornwall and Scilly by Craig Weatherhill, ISBN 1871060311
- Cornwall's Archaeological Heritage by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit, ISBN 0906294215
[edit] Topography
- Cornwall - A Book of the West by Sabine Baring-Gould, ISBN 0704504197
- The Buildings of England - Cornwall by Nikolaus Pevsner
- Survey of Cornwall, 1602 by Richard Carew, ISBN 0850253896
- Cornwall Coast Path by HMSO, ISBN 0117007404
- Early Tours in Devon and Cornwall by R. Pearse Chope
- Betjeman's Cornwall by John Betjeman, ISBN 0719541069
- The Story of Cornwall's Bodmin Moor by Pat Munn ISBN 0950173207
[edit] Literature
- The Literature of Cornwall by Alan M. Kent, ISBN 1900178281
- Voices from West Barbary - an anthology of Anglo-Cornish poetry 1549 - 1928 ed. Alan M. Kent, ISBN 0953238881
