98.7% of the research for South West Sea Kayaking has come from this indispensible little tome. Random extracts …
St. Austell Brewery is Cornwall’s oldest and largest family-run business, owning 170 pubs and producing 30,000 barrels of beer a year.
Visitors to Cornwall spend an average of £32 per day on food and accommodation, visitors to London spend £76.
Cornwall’s first ever lifeboat station opened in Penzance in 1803, 12 years before the RNLI began.
The Tate St Ives took two years to build, costing over £3 million. In 2007, Tate St Ives saw its three millionth visitor.
The Tamar Bridge carries 16 million vehicles a year, 10 times more vehicles than when it opened. On a busy weekday, 50,000 vehicles drive over it.
