Why Nobody Wants to Visit England's Holiday Kingdom Anymore: Cornwall

The Old Kingdom

The Old Kingdom

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This is the story of a peninsula that invented itself as England's holiday kingdom — and was then hollowed out by the same summer-only economy it built to last. A Cornwall tragedy of a hundred-year-old railway season, thirteen thousand houses left empty for most of the year, price wars, the flattest visitor numbers in twenty-five years, and villages left dark and silent for nine months out of every twelve.