Editing Truro (section)

====Cornish wrestling====
Truro has been a centre for [[Cornish wrestling]] for centuries.<ref name="RCG11061808">Royal Cornwall Gazette, 11 June 1808.</ref><ref name="CG20061946">Cornish Guardian, 20 June 1946.</ref><ref name="WB21092017">The West Briton, 21 Sep 2017.</ref> Before the formation of the Cornish Wrestling Association, the tournaments in Truro were often described as the ''Great County Wrestling Matches''<ref name="LFP18091886">Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser, 18 September 1886.</ref> and, with winners getting money prizes or silver medals,<ref name="WMN17071884">Western Morning News 17 July 1884.</ref><ref name="C03071890">The Cornishman, 3 July 1890, p4.</ref> silver cups<ref name="WBCA22071886">West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 22 July 1886.</ref><ref name="SAS30051907">St. Austell Star, 30 May 1907.</ref> and silver belts.<ref name="RCG05101893">Royal Cornwall Gazette, 5 October 1893.</ref><ref name="WMN17091891">Western Morning News, 17 September 1891.</ref> A large number of venues have been used throughout Truro, including various inns which put on tournaments such as the White Hart Inn,<ref name="RCG26051832">The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser, 26 May 1832, p3.</ref> Western Inn,<ref name="RCG07071832">Royal Cornwall Gazette, 7 July 1832.</ref> Ship Inn<ref name="WBCA19071844">West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 19 July 1844.</ref> and Victoria Inn.<ref name="LFPCA24071858">Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser, 24 July 1858.</ref>

In the 1970s, [[Truro Cathedral School]] taught Cornish wrestling as part of its [[physical education]] programme and was at this time the only school in Cornwall to do so.<ref>[[Peter Berresford Ellis]] (1974) ''The Cornish Language and its Literature''. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, p. 199</ref>

John Lander was a noted wrestler during the late 1700s and early 1800s. He was landlord of the Fighting Cocks Inn in Truro and was the father of the famous explorers [[John Lander (explorer)|John Lander]] and [[Richard Lander]].<ref name="WMN08091944">Hedgecoe, John: ''A L Rowse's Cornwall'', Weidenfeld and Nicolson (London), 1988, p74-75</ref>