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7 Bodmin Moor Tips for Drivers

Bodmin Moor is a huge expanse of bleak moorland and Tour length: 48 km (30 miles).
Stopping-off points: Jamaica
dramatic granite tors at the heart of Cornwall. This great Inn, or, for a more authentic
inland wilderness lies over an outcrop of the granite experience, the Blisland Inn.
batholith that runs from Dartmoor through the Cornish To hike to Rough Tor and Brown
peninsula and under the sea to the Scilly Isles and beyond. Willy, park at the convenient car
park north of Rough Tor (the turn-
Covering 207 sq km (80 sq miles), it is a landscape of off is at Camelford). The walk from
mystery and legend, with sacred prehistoric sites, a history Bolventor village is much longer.
of smuggling and many associations with King Arthur.
5 Brown Willy 1 Altarnun
At 420 m (1,378 ft), this The village is home to the
is the highest point in 15th-century Church of
Cornwall. Its name is a St Nonna, known as the
corruption of bronn wennili, Cathedral of the Moor.
Cornish for “hill of swallows”. Nearby at Five Lanes is
The most spectacular walk Wesley’s Cottage, where
takes in the summits of the Methodist preacher
Rough Tor and Brown Willy. John Wesley (1703–91)
often stayed.
Camelford and
Rough Tor car park
Plusha
Rough Tor
400 m
(1,312 ft)

North
Bolventor Hill
Berriowbridge
Blisland Inn Dozmary
Pool
4 Jamaica Inn
A staging inn on the Temple Colliford Fowey
old turnpike road, this Lake Cheesewring
1750 inn inspired Du
Maurier’s eponymous
novel, and is also home
to a small museum.
Daphne du Maurier 0 km 2
The period romances of 0 miles 2
Daphne du Maurier (1907– 3 St Neot
89) are inextricably linked This 15th-century church Key
with the stunning wild has stunning 16th-century Tour route
Cornish landscape where stained-glass windows. Walk route
she grew up. Jamaica Inn
established her reputation Other roads
in 1936, and with the Peak
publication of Rebecca two
years later she found herself 2 Minions
one of the most popular This is the highest village
authors of her day. Rebecca in Cornwall. Sights nearby
was later made into a cult include Bronze Age
film by Alfred Hitchcock, monument the Hurlers
starring Joan Fontaine Stone Circles and the
and Laurence Olivier. Cheesewring, a pillar of
wind-eroded granite.

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