PhotoFile Cornwall - Images, Photographs, Information; Bodmin Moor, South East Cornwall, Coast.

PhotoFile Cornwall; Images, Photos and Pictures of Bodmin Moor and South East Cornwall The Hurlers on Bodmin Moor
*PhotoFile Cornwall* Photographs, information of interest, and images around *Bodmin Moor and South East Cornwall* with information about the area around St.Cleer, Redgate, Minions, Cornish Mining Heritage; plus photographs from elsewhere in Cornwall, easily reached north and west.
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Bodmin Moor... "The Hidden Heart of Cornwall" *"An Golonn Gudhys a Gernow"* "Bodmin Moor is the heart of Cornwall. It is as distinctive as Dartmoor, and in no way less impressive. Its fringes are scattered with tiny farms and homesteads of granite and slate, with boundaries of turf and stone to enclose the meagre, hard won fields, and its vast sweep is broken by a tumbled mass of rugged tors and smoothly rounded downs and only here and there the dark, forlorn outline of a tortured, stunted tree leaning from the wind." - taken from W.MacArthur "The River Fowey" (1948) -
BODMIN MOOR Stowe's Hill new! Caradon Hill Rillaton Barrow The Hurlers new! The Cheesewring new! Daniel Gumb's Cave Sharp Tor Bearah Tor Kilmar Tor Rough Tor Brown Willy St.Bellarmin's Tor Moor Tors (List) new! Moor Moods Moor Wildlife Dozmary Pool [Top]			"Bodmin Moor is a place where dreams are created and fulfilled. A magic place... it is a wonderful locale for those who desire to walk and think their own thoughts, amidst the space and quietude existing in the very heart of this unique and special place that is Cornwall." *(E.V.Thompson, from Walks on Bodmin Moor)* "Wildlife abounds on the moor, whether it is grazing sheep and ponies, wheeling buzzards, or other flora and fauna; but the moor is still very much a working landscape, where the welfare of livestock and land need full consideration by all who use and visit the moor." *Old tin-streaming works*
*ST.CLEER & the Local Area* St.Cleer new! Redgate new! Golitha Falls new! King Doniert's Stone new! Trethevy Quoit new! Siblyback Lake new! Minions new! Crow's Nest new! Liskeard new! [Top]			"During 1840s to 1890s St.Cleer became known as "Hell up by Liskeard", due to the somewhat poor social conditions, excessive drinking and immorality, that resulted from this sudden increase in the mining population. By 1901, the population of St.Cleer had decreased again to half what it was at the height of the mining boom." *St.Cleer church*
SOUTH EAST CORNWALL ~ INLAND ~ Sterts Open Air Theatre (in prep.) Carnglaze Caverns & Rum Store (in prep.) Eden Project (in prep.) The Lost Gardens of Heligan (in prep.) Bodmin Courtroom Experience new! Bodmin Jail new! Bodmin & Wenford Railway Looe Valley Line new! Lostwithiel St.Neot Warleggan Cardinham Woods [Top]			"A visit to the Lost Gardens of Heligan on a misty February day can be as rewarding as any other day in the year! The Jungle, as it is called, is a captivating board-walk down a steep valley, filled with ponds, tree ferns, and giant rhubarb. With the mists, it is more Jurassic than Jungle!" Earth sculpture at Heligan
SOUTH EAST CORNWALL ~ COAST ~ Charlestown Downderry Fowey (in prep.) Kingsands & Cawsands Lansallos Cove new! Lerryn Looe (in prep.) Looe Island Mevagissey Pencarrow Head Pentewan new! Polkerris Polperro (in prep.) Polruan (in prep.) Portwrinkle Rame Head Seaton new! Shipwreck & Heritage Centre Talland Gribben Head Downend Point [Top]			"Cornwall has many "secret" little coves and inlets, that reveal a romantic history of smuggling in the area, and none quite achieves it so well as Lansallos Cove. Here a track winds down through the woods from the church in the village above - a typical smugglers' lane if ever there was!" *Lansallos Cove*
HOUSES & CASTLES Cotehele House (in prep.) Lanhydrock House (in prep.) Mount Edgcumbe House Pencarrow House Restormel Castle Launceston Castle Tintagel Castle St.Mawes Castle Pendennis Castle Castle Dore [Top]			"In 1644, Lanhydrock House was the headquarters of the Parliamentarian cause in Cornwall, but fell to the Royalists later that year, until once again returning to the Parliamentarians when the Royalists lost the war in Cornwall and the west in 1646. Pendennis Castle was the last Royalist stronghold in the county to surrender, and after a five month seige, the defenders were allowed to march out with full military honours, weapons, and banners flying." *Lanhydrock gatehouse*
MINING HERITAGE Tin Streaming South Caradon Mine new! West Caradon Mine Phoenix United Mine new! South Phoenix Mine West Phoenix Mine ( Silver Valley Mine ) Craddock Moor Mine Marke Valley Mine Wheal Jenkin Mine Wheal Victoria Mine new! Gold Diggings Quarry Bearah Tor Quarry Cheesewring Quarry Liskeard & Caradon Railway new! Caradon Hill Area Heritage Project ( CHAHP ) new! Glynn Valley Mine Wheal Martin China Clay Museum [Top]			The Mine "Hast ever seen a mine? Hast ever been Down it in its fabled grottoes, walled with gems, And canopied with torrid mineral belts, That blaze within the fiery orifice? Hast ever, by the glimmer of a lamp, Or the fast waning taper, gone down, down, Towards the earth's dread centre, where wise men Have told us that the earthquake is conceived, And great Vesuvius hath his lava-house, Which burns and burns forever, shooting forth As from a fountain of eternal fire? Hast ever heard, within this prison house, The startling hoof of fear? the eternal flow Of some dread meaning whispering to thy soul?" *(John Harris; miner and poet)* *West Phoenix Mine*
NORTH CORNWALL Boscastle Tintagel (in prep.) Delabole Port Quin Port Isaac Padstow (in prep.) Trebarwith Strand Bedruthan Steps [Top]			"'Twas a Giant by the name of Bedruthan who used the stacks as stepping stones to cross the bay... or so the nineteenth century fairy-tale would have you believe. More likely, the steps of Bedruthan were those of the original "steps" or path down the cliff to the beach!" *Bedruthan Steps*
WEST CORNWALL Kennal Vale St.Mawes Falmouth Helford River Mullion Cove Porthleven (in prep.) St.Michael's Mount (in prep.) Penzance Cape Cornwall St.Ives Portreath Porthtowan Chapel Porth St.Agnes Trevaunance Cove [Top]			"St.Michael's Mount at one time, in old Cornish, was called "Cara Cowze in Clowze", which means "The hoar rock in the wood"... what is now covered by sea, was once forest, and this is supported by the remains of petrified trees found in Mount's Bay, that have now sunk beneath the waves. Does this perhaps help substantiate the old myths of Lyonesse?" *Porthleven*
Old Photographs Coming soon! [Top]
Old Maps Coming soon! [Top]
X-FILES & Other The Beast of Bodmin Moor Lyonesse Tristan and Iseult Square Rig Sailing on the "Phoenix" new! Surfing Pics Hot-Air Ballooning new! Tea Shops [Top]			"Sailing aboard the Phoenix is an amazing experience - even more so for those with a love of the sea, and a sense of the great sailing vessels of the past. To be aboard a square rigger under sail is like taking a step out of time, and for three hours - or for longer trips - it is still possible to do so!" *The Phoenix*
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