An area of natural beauty, Bodmin Moor is a haven for flora and fauna, with the heather and gorse making the landscape purple and gold. All over Bodmin Moor there are prehistoric remains, streams tumbling over granite boulders, medieval bridges and gaunt engine houses. There are King Arthur legends, gruesome stories and sightings of wild beasts and large cats. The following is a potted guide to the parishes, towns, villages and hamlets.


Altarnun nestles in the valley of Penpont Water with a 15th century packhorse bridge across the river, and a 15th century church is known as the ‘Cathedral of the Moors’. The largest building in the village is the 18th century Kings Head Hotel, with resident ghost.


From Altarnun, take a short walk up ‘sunken lane’, reputed to be one thousand years old, to Five Lanes.


A quarter of a mile to the west of Five Lanes is the hamlet of Trewint, with the John Wesley Cottage.


The village of St Breward has the highest church in Cornwall and in February, special buns are baked, blessed and distributed amongst the local parishioners. Next door to the church is the OLD INN & RESTAURANT, being the highest inn in Cornwall. This is also the official starting point of the Camel Trail.


NearbyRough Torrising to a height of about 1300ft it’s the second highest point in Cornwall with views across both coasts on a clear day.


Brown Willy about a mile to the west is the highest at about 1360ft.


At St Tudy you can visit the original Celtic graveyard (God’s acre) containing the beautiful Grade 1 listed parish church, and the interesting ‘Clink’ building to the north. Bolventor is a hamlet in the centre of the Moor and home to the legendary Dozmary Pool.


Lewannick is a small village with a busy social life and regular events, including May Day celebrations and the spring flower and produce show. Nearby are the pretty hamlets of Polyphant, Trevadlock and Plusha. At over 1000ft, the village of Minions was an intense mining area during the last century, but is now populated with a few people plus sheep and ponies.


The Liskeard-Cardon railway passes within a few hundred yards of the old workers cottages.


Linkinhorne and the villages of St Clair and St Eve is where Captain Jack Clymo discovered a small vein of copper ore and reputedly employed over four thousand men, women and children in his mines.


Nearby are the famous Hurlers, three Bronze Age stone circles, where local legend has it that men were turned to stone for playing the Cornish game of hurling on the Sabbath.


Also, the famous Cheesewring, a precariously balanced pile of large granite rocks in the pinnacle of Stowe’s Hill.


The parish church St Melor’s in Linkinhorne, dates mainly from the 15th Century. There is also a small Holy Well dating from the same era. Blisland is full of variety from moorland to lush rolling countryside, and the village with its Manor, and unusually for Cornwall, a large ‘Goose’ green, makes it one of the most pleasant in the West Country.


St Breward Church


Whatever the weather BODMIN & WENFORD RAILWAY is just the cket to discover the excitement and nostalgia of steam travel in 1950's coaches. Enjoy a leisurely thirteen mile round trip through the countryside on the route that links Cornwall's County Town to the main railway. If you are arriving by road join the train at Bodmin General, if arriving by rail then there is a cross-plaorm interchange at Bodmin Parkway. There are themed & special journeys and much more going on throughout the year.


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