View From St Helen's Oratory Cape Cornwall is a photograph by Terri Waters which was uploaded on July 26th, 2014.
View From St Helen's Oratory Cape Cornwall
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by Terri Waters
Title
View From St Helen's Oratory Cape Cornwall
Artist
Terri Waters
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The view from St Helen's Oratory Cape Cornwall.
A cape is defined as a headland where two oceans or channels meet. In the case of Cape Cornwall they are the English Channel and St George's Channel.
Cape Cornwall is the point at which the Atlantic currents meet and split, either going south to the English Channel, or north to the Bristol Channel and Irish Sea.
There was once a Bronze Age burial site here, beside an earlier Iron Age hill fort. Around the 4th century AD, it was the site of one of the first Christian chapels in west Cornwall, St Helen's Oratory. The site is now occupied by a ruined farm building and has been used since the Roman times.
Cape Cornwall was thought for a long time to be the most westerly point in England, but it was later shown that Lands End was in fact further west.
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July 26th, 2014
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Thank you Tina M Wenger for featuring View From St Helen's Oratory Cape Cornwall in the Group Artists Best Five Artwork
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