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| The old smugglers' coves and pirate villages of Cornwall's southern coast blend into the grand houses, subtropical gardens and mining towns and village's inland, whose industrial prosperity once financed their construction. Bodmin Moor scattered with granite boulders, forms the 'roof' of Cornwall. The rugged Atlantic coast leads to sandy beaches favoured by surfers and visitors alike. The granite mass of Land's end at the end of the Cornish peninsula, the farthest point west on the mainland of England. Cornwall is an area steeped in the history of King Arthur, with shipwrecks, smugglers and strange happenings in the subterranean world of tin miners. |