Cornwall is the county with the most listed buildings in the country. Sadly, even Poldark’s bare-chested scything couldn’t achieve such a thing, neither is it a result of Warleggan-type wealth in days gone by. The most likely explanation for the domination of certain areas in a breakdown of listed buildings by local authority is much more mundane. “Part of this is about longevity and the use of building stone in places such as Cornwall, Wiltshire, Northumberland, Cotswolds and west Dorset. There is virtually nothing in the east of England because they were less…

Source: The Times October 20, 2016 23:03 UTC