The Lizard

Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has those details.

125 years after the Italian inventor and experimenter Guglielmo Marconi sent the first wireless signals across the Atlantic Ocean from the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, the site is being honoured with the Government's World Origin Site Award.

The award formally acknowledges landmarks of significant events.

On 17 October, a plaque was unveiled at the centre by Lord Robert Teverson and Carol Rule, M0ADA, President of the Polhu Amateur Radio Club, GB2GM.

Thriving pairs, the fledglings were raised by 56 successful breeding pairs, averaging nearly three healthy chicks per nest.

And the territory is expanding, and it's expanding across from the Lizard Peninsula extending further north towards Tintagel and Bude, which is quite north, up on the north Devon coast.

So, I mean, it's a fantastic story.

Yeah,

But if you bring us to the farm, what do we see? What do we smell? What animals, crops, etc.? ?

We're on the Lizard Peninsula, the most southerly point of the UK in Cornwall, the southwest.

And it's beautiful.

And from all the travelling I've done, I've realised it's one of the best places to be a farmer in the world.

We used to go to a place called Cadworth on the south coast.

It's on the Lizard Peninsula.

And in some ways, nothing beats the Lizard Peninsula because it's so sort of smugglers and fishermen and remote.

Here, it's just a little bit more tucked in and not quite as wild because you look east and then you're

in the Bristol Channel.

Nearing the English coast, the ship's master calculates by traditional dead reckoning that they are off the start, a point near Dartmouth.

Harrison, checking H1, calmly informs the captain that they are actually off the Lizard Peninsula, more than 60 miles further west.

And Harrison was entirely correct?

Had they trusted the dead reckoning, they might have sailed into danger.

Cornwall.

Lizard.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Where, whereabouts in Cornwall?

At the Lizard.

Oh, the Lizard.

Yeah.