Camborne is a town in Cornwall and used to be one of the richest tin mining areas in the world and copper seams were mined there too. It also includes Deadman's Cove and Hell's Mouth within its parish area.

The town was where the first journey by a self-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle took place: that of Trevithick's Puffing Devil steam-powered locomotive up the Camborne Hill in 1801.

The town's St Martin and St Meriadoc Parish Church was originally built in the 15th century and is made entirely out of granite.

Cornwall is the most south-westerly county in England and is surrounded by water on three sides, touching only Devon county by land. It was traditionally associated with tin mining and fishing, but nowadays the main economic activity in the county is tourism. The county town and only city is Truro. Other towns include Falmouth, Camborne and Redruth.

Cornwall is a peninsula with no motorways, few trunk roads (A39 and A30 are among them), a limited railway network and has a small airport in Newquay. The main transport hub is Truro and both Truro and Penzance have some direct railway services to London Paddington.

Cornwall has some beautiful coastal villages and towns including, for example, St Ives and Falmouth. Land's End is a popular tourist destination and is the starting point for people tackling the journey, whether on foot or bike or motorbike, to John O'Groats, the most northerly village in Scotland.

There is one university, the Falmouth University, as well as sites of the University of Exeter. Cornwall is a place of many festivals - there are frequent festivals at the Lizard for example and Porthcurno is the site of the Minack Theatre, an open-air amphitheatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea. Surfing is very popular in the county.