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CADGWITH, CORNWALL

nchoring off the cove at Cadgwith in Cornwall was a trip down memory lane for me; I was evacuated to this fishing village during the Second World War and have very fond memories of this idyllic place. Visiting there again was like turning the clock back 70 years and little has

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