It is the 5th of August. Today in Cornwall, there was a Feast at Treneglos and at Warbstow on the first Thursday in August. Goldsithney Fair was held, one of the most important fairs in west Cornwall.
The Cornish Year
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It is the 4th of August. Today in Cornwall, it is the Day of St. Dominic. There was a Dominican Friary at Truro.
It is the 3rd of August. Today in Cornwall, it is the Invention of St. Stephen. Feasts were held in Lanreath and Sithney. The Feast at St. Stephen-in-Brannel was held on the first Sunday in August.
It is the 2nd of August. Today in Cornwall, it is the Day of St. Sidwell, or Sativola. Poughill Feast was held on this day.
It is the 1st of August. Today in Cornwall, it is Lammas Day and the Feast of St. Peter's Chains. St. Germans Fair was held on this day, with Morvah Feast on the nearest Sunday.
It is the 31st of July. Today in Cornwall, it is the Day of St. Germanus of Auxerre and of St. Neot.
It is the 30th of July. Today in Cornwall, in 1833 two Fowey men and one Polruan man were dismissed from the Coastguards for smuggling.
It is the 29th of July. Today in Cornwall, it is the Day of St. Olaf in Poughill. Richard Trevithick, Sr., mine engineer and father of Richard Trevithick, died in Camborne in 1797.