Craig Weatherhill

Craig Weatherhill (born 1950) is an British author both of fiction and non-fiction works about Cornwall.
Biography
Raised in St Just in Penwith and then in Falmouth, after serving in the forces he developed a career in conservation and architecture.
He conducted extensive archaeological surveys of West Cornwall under the tutelage of P. A. S. Pool, the Cornish historian, much of which has subsequently been published. His reconstruction of West Cornwall courtyard houses (drawings and artwork) is now the accepted form for these buildings. In the 1980s Weatherhill published two works on Cornish prehistoric and early medieval archaeology: Belerion and Cornovia. Both books were updated and republished as one volume in 2009.
His works of fiction include a trilogy: The Lyonesse Stone, Seat of Storms and The Tinners' Way. In November 2009, the first part was published in Cornish by Evertype, with the title Jowal Lethesow— Another novel, Nautilus, was published in 2009; it is a modern sequel to the Jules Verne classics Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and The Mysterious Island.
Weatherhill is a campaigner about Cornwall, the Cornish language, culture and people, and has written articles in local magazines (including Cornwall Today) and newspapers (including the Western Morning News) relating to the environment, erosion of Cornish culture, constitutional and linguistic rights for the Cornish speaking population.
Over the years, he has been a frequent presenter of these issues, He has appeared on both BBC Radio Cornwall and on television as a historian and actor on horseback; notably ITV's Time Travels - The Battle of Vellan-druchar and Westcountry Tales - The Lost Land of Lyonesse.
Weatherhill is considered one of Cornwall’s foremost experts on place-names, and is one of the leading historical and language contributors to Cornish World magazine. In August 2009, he delivered a lecture on the place-names of Cornwall to the International Celtic Congress held in Sligo.
Books by Craig Weatherhill
Nonfiction
*The Principal Antiquities of the Land’s End District, with P. A. S. Pool and Professor Charles Thomas (Cornwall Archaeological Society, 1980)
*Belerion: Ancient Sites of Land’s End (Alison Hodge, 1981 & 1985; Halsgrove, 1989 & 2000)
*Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall & Scilly (Alison Hodge, 1985; Halsgrove 1997 & 2000)
*Myths & Legends of Cornwall with Paul Devereux (Sigma Press, 1994 & 1997)
*Cornish Place Names & Language (Sigma Press, 1995, 1998 & 2000) ISBN 1-85058-462-1
*Place Names in Cornwall & Scilly (Wessex/Westcountry Books 2005)
*Cornish Place Names & Language; completely revised edition (Sigma Press, 2007) ISBN 978-1-85058-837-5
*Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall and Scilly, 4000 BC - 1000 AD (Halsgrove, 2009)
*A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names (Evertype, 2009) ISBN 978-1-904808-22-0
Fiction
*The Lyonesse Stone (Tabb House 1991)
*Seat of Storms (Tabb House 1995)
*The Tinners’ Way (Tabb House 2010)
*Jowal Lethesow—The Lyonesse Stone in Cornish (Evertype 2009) ISBN 978-1-904808-30-5
*Nautilus (Evertype, 2009) ISBN 978-1-904808-40-4

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