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Coranto

Early form of newspaper published in England from the 1620s until the 1630s.

Corbel

Structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent load.

Cornish churchtowns

Ecclesiastical parishes in Cornwall sometimes have a parish church situated in a churchtown.

Cornish tin stamps

Large machines for crushing tin and copper ore.

Corpse roads

Roads that once provided the means of transporting the dead to churchyards for burial.

Coterel Gang

14th-century armed group that flourished in the North Midlands of England, led by James Coterel.

Cotswold Olimpick Games

The Cotswold Olimpick Games is an annual public celebration of games and sports held on the Friday after Spring Bank Holiday near Chipping Campden, in the Cotswolds of England.

Cotterill Clough Nature Reserve

Nature reserve adjacent to Manchester Airport.

Cottingley Fairies

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (1901–1988) and Frances Griffiths (1907–1986), two cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England.

Cottonopolis

The nickname given to Manchester, the world's first industrial city, a metropolis centred on cotton trading.