This morning I went walking, to try and recapture some of the beauty I found yesterday in the sketches of Elizabeth Carne. Kresen...

Boscawen Park - at the edge of Truro, near Malpas - is named for the family of the Viscounts of Falmouth; Tregothnan, to the east of...

A Cornish Waif's Story - Emma Smith (pseudonym) - Mabel Carvolth This autobiography, of a life lived through the first half of the...

The first thing on entering the forest is the sunlight falling through the freshly-opened leaves of a sycamore tree, waving languorously...

Through the trees still dappled with bluebells, and now speckled with pink campion – over the stile into the meadow and at last! – a view...

The River Kenwyn is a feature I have long associated with the centre of Truro, as a fast-moving stream, confined between two walls near...

Confines, Cornish Plays and Community Walking near to midsummer, it can be hard to see beyond the edges of the path. The solid fronds of...

Reading about the life of Gertrude Bell - writer, traveller, administrator & archeologist - raises some questions about how we see...

In the quiet, narrow streets of Penryn – further upriver from Falmouth, and the settlement with the longer record of habitation –...

Since a few busy months spent living with friends near to Merton Abbey Mills in my early twenties, I’ve been fascinated by the way in...