Isles of Scilly traditional British naval song "Spanish Ladies". Scilly is mentioned in the song "Phenomenal Cat" by The Kinks on their album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society. Isles of Scilly is a song by the Icelandic artist Catmanic. Isles of Scilly The Isles of Scilly (; or "") is an archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall. One of the islands, St Agnes, is the most southerly point in both England and the United Kingdom, being over further south than the most southerly point of the British mainland at Lizard Point. The population of all the islands at the
History of Cornwall Cornwall for tin. There is no archaeological evidence for this and modern historians have debunked earlier antiquarian constructions of "the Phoenician legacy of Cornwall", including belief that the Phoenicians even settled Cornwall. By the time that Classical written sources appear, Cornwall was inhabited by tribes speaking Celtic languages. The ancient Greeks and Romans used the name "Belerion" or "Bolerium" for the south-west tip of the island of Britain, but the late-Roman source for the Ravenna Cosmography (compiled about 700 CE) introduces a place-name "Puro coronavis", the first part of which seems to be a misspelling of "Duro" (meaning Fort). This