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This is a list of flags that are used exclusively in Cornwall , or by the Cornish people, a recognised national minority of the United Kingdom.
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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 | 12th century, adopted in 1890 [1] | Saint Piran's Cross, named for the Cornish patron saint, also known as the Flag of Cornwall (Baner Peran). | A centred white cross on a black background |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pre-1695 | Standard of the Duke of Cornwall | 15 Cornish golden bezants on a black field |
 | pre-2007 | Flag of the Duchy of Cornwall, flown outside the Duchy's offices in London |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Banner of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe | A square banner of the Earl's coat of arms. | |
 | Banner of the Viscount Falmouth | A banner of the arms of the Boscawen family (the current holders of the title), flown atop the country house of Tregothnan. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 2002 | The Scillonian Cross, the official flag of the Isles of Scilly. | The Scillonian Cross, top half gold; representing the golden sand of the beaches, bottom half blue; representing the sea. Also with the top right corner picturing stars representing the location of the islands. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flag of Malpas |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1876 | Flag of the Diocese of Truro [ citation needed ] | A Saint George's Cross defaced with the coat of arms of the Diocese in the canton. |
 | 1950 | Flag of St Austell Parish | A white eagle flying westwards over a gold map of Cornwall on a field of blue. [2] |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-1415 | Two Cornish wrestlers in a hitch, still used by the Cornish Wrestling association. Supposed used at Agincourt [ citation needed ] | ||
| ?? | The Cornish chough used as an emblem.[ citation needed ] | ||
 | c.1940–1944 | Flag of the 11th (Newquay) Battalion, Cornwall Home Guard | A light yellow flag with a black Cornish chough, used by the Newquay unit of the Cornwall Home Guard (the unit's nickname was "The Choughs"). [3] [4] [5] |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Link to file | 1894 | Cornwall County Cricket Club | |
 | 1883 | Cornwall Rugby Football Union | A Saint Piran's Cross with two horizontal gold stripes in each quarter. |
 | Cornish Wrestling Association | A banner used by the Cornish Wrestling Association, based on that allegedly used by Cornish soldiers at Agincourt. The text above the wrestlers reads "KERNOW BYS VYKEN" ("CORNWALL FOREVER"), and the text below the wrestlers reads "GWARY WHEK YU GWARY TEK" ("GOOD PLAY IS FAIR PLAY"). [6] | |
 | 1928 | Gorsedh Kernow | |
 | 1920 | Isles of Scilly Steamship Company | A white cross on a blue field, with each quarter containing one of the company's initials in red. [7] |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 1972 | Cargreen Yacht Club | A green burgee defaced with a red brick chimney outlined in black in the hoist. |
 | 1921 | Flushing Sailing Club | A black burgee defaced with a gold letter "V". |
 | 1948 | Helford River Sailing Club | A blue burgee divided by a red cross outlined in white, with a gold ship in the centre. |
 | 1934 | Looe Sailing Club | A diagonally divided burgee of seven red and yellow stripes (four red and three yellow) defaced with a black silhouette of a ship on the waves. |
 | Mount's Bay Sailing Club | ||
 | 1963 | Mylor Yacht Club | A white burgee divided by a red Saint George's Cross with the shield from the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall in the canton. |
 | 1965 | Padstow Sailing Club | A white burgee defaced with a red-and-white fish and surrounded by a blue border. |
 | 1939–1990s | Penzance Sailing Club | A white burgee defaced with a black skull and crossbones. [8] |
 | 1990s | Penzance Sailing Club | A black burgee divided by a white Saint Piran's Cross, with a black skull and crossbones on a white disc in the centre. [8] |
 | 1958 | Port Navas Yacht Club | A black burgee with the white-coloured initials "PNYC" arranged vertically in the hoist and separated from the rest of the burgee by a vertical white line, and the rest of the burgee divided by a white Saint Piran's Cross with a gold ship's wheel to the upper left of the cross. |
 | 1951 | Porthpean Sailing Club | A blue burgee divided by a white cross, defaced in the centre with a white shield bearing a red saltire. |
 | 1974 | The Quay Sailing Club | A white burgee with a crimson border, defaced with a white shield containing three black bells (two above and one below) in the hoist, and the black-coloured initials "Q.S.C." in the fly. |
 | 1933 | Restronguet Sailing Club | A blue burgee defaced with a white seashell and surrounded by a white border. |
 | 1938 | Rock Sailing and Waterski Club | A yellow burgee defaced with a black silhouette of a camel. |
  | 1871 | Royal Cornwall Yacht Club | Blue Ensign, with the Prince of Wales's feathers heraldic badge. [9] |
  | 1880 | Royal Fowey Yacht Club | Red Ensign, with the coat of arms of the Duke of Cornwall. [10] |
  | 1972 | St Ives Sailing Club | |
 | 1920 | St Mawes Sailing Club | A white-and-red quartered burgee with the shield from the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall in the canton. |
 | 1898 | Saltash Sailing Club | |
 | 1891 | Torpoint Mosquito Sailing Club | A dark blue burgee divided by a white cross and defaced with a red diamond in the centre. |
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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 | Another unofficial Cornish Merchant Naval ensign [11] | Black flag with a white cross, and a Union Jack in the canton. | |
 | Another unofficial Cornish ensign, flown on the ferry from St Mawes to Falmouth.[ citation needed ] | A black field divided by a white cross, with a Union Jack in the canton and the Standard of the Duke of Cornwall in the lower fly. | |
 | 1988 | Another unofficial Cornish ensign, flown by Cornish Australians [12] | The Cornish flag defaced with the Standard Stars of the Australian Flag. |
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Bodmin is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated south-west of Bodmin Moor.
Cornwall is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised by Cornish and Celtic political groups as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, Devon to the east, and the English Channel to the south. The largest urban area in the county is a conurbation that includes the former mining towns of Redruth and Camborne, and the county town is the city of Truro.
Truro is a cathedral city and civil parish in Cornwall, England; it is the southernmost city in the United Kingdom, just under 232 miles (373 km) west-south-west of Charing Cross in London. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and a centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its population was 18,766 in the 2011 census. People of Truro can be called Truronians. It grew as a trade centre through its port and as a stannary town for tin mining. It became mainland Britain's southernmost city in 1876, with the founding of the Diocese of Truro. It is home to Cornwall Council, the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro Cathedral, the Hall for Cornwall and Cornwall's Courts of Justice.
Newquay is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a civil parish, seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries with an airport and a spaceport, and a fishing port on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall, approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of Truro and 20 miles (32 km) west of Bodmin.
Bude is a seaside town in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet. It was sometimes formerly known as Bude Haven. It lies southwest of Stratton, south of Flexbury and Poughill, and north of Widemouth Bay, located along the A3073 road off the A39. Bude is twinned with Ergué-Gabéric in Brittany, France. Bude's coast faces Bude Bay in the Celtic Sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean. The population of the civil parish can be found under Bude-Stratton.
Liskeard is an ancient stannary and market town in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth, 14 miles (23 km) west of the Devon border, and 12 miles (20 km) east of Bodmin. The Bodmin Moor lies to the north-west of the town. The total population of the town at the 2011 census was 11,366
Camborne is a town in Cornwall, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 20,845. The northern edge of the parish includes a section of the South West Coast Path, Hell's Mouth and Deadman's Cove.
Saint Austell is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 10 miles (16 km) south of Bodmin and 30 miles (48 km) west of the border with Devon.
Lostwithiel is a civil parish and small town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom at the head of the estuary of the River Fowey. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,739, increasing to 2,899 at the 2011 census. The Lostwithiel electoral ward had a population of 4,639 at the 2011 census. The name Lostwithiel comes from the Cornish "lostwydhyel" which means "tail of a wooded area".
Saltash is a town and civil parish in south Cornwall, England. It had a population of 16,184 in 2011 census. Saltash faces the city of Plymouth over the River Tamar and is popularly known as "the Gateway to Cornwall". Saltash’s landmarks include the Tamar Bridge which connects Plymouth to Cornwall by road, and the Royal Albert Bridge. The area of Latchbrook is part of the town.
Sir Charles Benedict Ainslie is a British competitive sailor. Ainslie is the most successful sailor in Olympic history. He won medals at five consecutive Olympics from 1996 onwards, including gold at four consecutive Games from 2000 to 2012.
St Columb Major is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Often referred to locally as St Columb, it is approximately seven miles (11 km) southwest of Wadebridge and six miles (10 km) east of Newquay The designation Major distinguishes it from the nearby settlement and parish of St Columb Minor on the coast. An electoral ward simply named St Columb exists with a population at the 2011 census of 5,050. The town is named after the 6th-century AD Saint Columba of Cornwall, also known as Columb.
Penryn is a civil parish and town in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the Penryn River about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Falmouth. The population was 7,166 in the 2001 census and had been reduced to 6,812 in the 2011 census, a drop of more than 300 people across the ten-year time gap. There are two electoral wards covering Penryn: 'Penryn East and Mylor' and 'Penryn West'. The total population of both wards in the 2011 census was 9,790.
St Mawgan or St Mawgan in Pydar is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The population of this parish at the 2011 census was 1,307. The village is situated four miles northeast of Newquay, and the parish also includes the hamlet of Mawgan Porth. The surviving manor house known as Lanherne House is an early 16th-century grade I listed building. The nearby Royal Air Force station, RAF St Mawgan, takes its name from the village and is next to Newquay Cornwall Airport. The River Menalhyl runs through St Mawgan village and the valley is known as The Vale of Lanherne. It was the subject of a poem by poet Henry Sewell Stokes.
Cornwall Council, known between 1889 and 2009 as Cornwall County Council, is the local authority which governs the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall in South West England. Since 2009 it has been a unitary authority, having taken over district-level functions when the county's districts were abolished. The non-metropolitan county of Cornwall is slightly smaller than the ceremonial county, which additionally includes the Isles of Scilly. The council is under no overall control since July 2024, when the Conservatives lost their majority. Its headquarters is Lys Kernow in Truro.
Trerice is an historic manor in the parish of Newlyn East, near Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The surviving Tudor manor house known as Trerice House is located at Kestle Mill, three miles east of Newquay. The house with its surrounding garden has been owned by the National Trust since 1953 and is open to the public. The house is a Grade I listed building. The two stone lions on the front lawn are separately listed, Grade II. The garden features an orchard with old varieties of fruit trees.
St Newlyn East is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is approximately three miles (5 km) south of Newquay. The name St Newlyn East is locally abbreviated to Newlyn East and according to an anonymous historian writing in The Cornishman in 1880 it was only in recent years that Saint had been added to the parish name.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Cornwall: Cornwall – ceremonial county and unitary authority area of England within the United Kingdom. Cornwall is a peninsula bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall is also a royal duchy of the United Kingdom. It has an estimated population of half a million and it has its own distinctive history and culture.
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