flickr © treehouse 1977 - the cheesewring in cornwall

source: flickr © treehouse 1977 - the cheesewring in cornwall

The landscape in Cornwall is full of drama and rugged beauty. Nowhere is this more evident than on wild and windy Bodmin Moor. This is the perfect area to escape and put give the waterproof hiking boots a good outing. A few years ago I did a fantastic walk called the Cheesewring Loop for an article I wrote for Adventure Cornwall magazine. It’s an astonishing route through an old mining landscape, which is slowly reverting back to nature. Old mine shafts tower above the tufted grass landscape grazed by moorland ponies.

The highlight of this walk is The Cheesewring – the name given to a series of stacks of large, rounded boulders left in strange piles by millennia of erosion. These geological wonders are stunning to look at and provide a great vantage point to view Cornwall’s highest hills and tors.

Just downhill from these magnificent megaliths is a pre-historic stone circle known as the Hurlers. It’s not as big or imposing as Stonehenge but it’s nevertheless impressive. I’d thoroughly recommend this walk to anyone visiting Cornwall. It can be boggy on the high ground so it’s well worth wearing good waterproof hiking boots. A full description of the walk is available in Adventure Cornwall’s trekking and hiking section.

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