The Camel Traill, Wadebridge
landmarks, Rough Tor and Brown Willy. Rough Tor rises to a height of about 1300, and Brown Willy is the highest at about 1360 feet.
St Tudy has a long and distinguished history. It has
grown centred around the original Celtic graveyard (God’s acre) now containing the beautiful Grade 1 listed parish church and interesting ‘Clink’ building to the north.
A nearby country house is reputed to be the birthplace of Captain Bligh of the Bounty.
Perhaps the most well known legend is that of Excalibur, King Arthur’s sword given to him by the Lady of the Lake. It is said that after Arthur was mortally wounded he ordered that Excalibur be thrown into the Dozmary Pool. This was done and after the sword was cast into the lake a woman’s hand caught it and held it aloft before taking it under the surface.
Another legend associated with the pool is that of Jan Tregeagle, who to keep his soul from the Devil was set a series of impossible tasks. The first was to empty the (what was then thought bottomless) Dozmary Pool with a holed limpet shell. It has since been proved that the lake does have a bottom as it dried out during the last century!
It has been suggested the name comes from Dozy Mary, a ‘lazy minded’ local girl who was murdered at the location.
Bolventor, a hamlet in the centre of the Moor is just a church and a few houses, but the surrounding countryside offers some of Cornwall’s most isolated landscape and the legendary Dozmary Pool.
Lewannick is a small village with a strong sense of community and many regular events including The Annual Pantomime, May Day Celebrations with Maypole Dancing, and Spring Flower Show & Annual Flower and Produce show.
Nearby are the pretty hamlets of Polyphant, Trevadlock and Plusha.
At over 1000ft, Minions is a village with a moor flowing through it, sheep and ponies wander through the village. This is also home to two of the Moor’s most famous landmarks, the Hurlers, three bronze age stone circles which local legend has were men turned to stone for playing the Cornish game of hurling on the Sabbath, and the Cheeswring a precariously-balanced pile of large granite rocks in the pinnacle of Stowe’s Hill.
Nearby Linkinhorne and the villages around of St Clair and St Eve lay claim to Captain Jack Clymo discovery of a small vein of copper ore and by 1863 over 4000 men, women and children were employed. Many of the derelict engine houses with their characteristic chimneys litter the moor and can be seen today.
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