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Friday, March 11, 2011
The first English visitor...
The first recorded visit from an Englishman to Cornwall was St Aldhelm (d.709). His journey to Dumnonia (the name for the Devon/Cornwall region) he described as:
...taking him to 'dire Devon through comfortless Cornwall'. This is one of the earliest clear references to Cornwall as a region.
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