Celtic Recipes

Tintagel - Dintagell

Tintagel/Dintagell is an Atlantic coastal village in Cornwall west of Bodmin Moor and the A39. It is a very popular tourist location with Tintagel Castle located on the peninsula and has a long association with Arthurian legends. Tintagel has good shopping, pub, restaurant and other leisure facilities.

Fernacre Stone Circle

Fernacre stone circle is one of the largest stone rings in Cornwall approximately 44m by 46m in diameter. About 60 stones remain, some of which are still upright but others lean or have fallen and are partially beneath the turf. A small slab lies within the circle and surrounding it are the remains of an earthen bank. Two outlying stones lie to the east and south-east.

Stannon Stone Circle

Stannon stone circle is located two and a half miles southeast of Camelford on Stannon Moor, and is made up of up to 68 stones. There are a number of cairns located on Stannon Down. Four small upright stones on the north-west of the circle are aligned through Stannon to the Louden circle. Alignments between circles and other sites in the area suggest astronomical influences around certain times of the year equinoxes.

The site can be reached by the road that leads to the clay works from Harpur's Downs to the west.

Rough Tor

Taking a detour about three miles southeast from the A39 at the northern part of Camelford. Then through the village of Treegoodwell and along Roughtor Road. Roughtor summit is surrounded by a series stone walls linking natural outcrops to form an enclosure. Within the enclosure are a small number of circular terraces levelled into the slopes. Cairns have been built near to the main entrances with more small cairns in the surrounding moorland. On the summit of Roughtor are the foundations of a medieval chapel dedicated to St Michael and built into the side of one of the cairns.

The enclosure is on moorland with open access and can be reached from a National Trust car park. The climb is steep to the site.

Camelford - Ryskammel

Camelford/Ryskammel is a town on the River Camel northeast of Lanteglos along the A39 on the northwest of Bodmin Moor. Close by is Roughtor and there are a considerable number of ancient remains in the area. In Camelford is the North Cornwall Museum and Gallery.

Lanteglos Church

Lanteglos church is to the south west of Camelford and is dedicated to St Julitta. It is a listed building and was pre-dated by a Norman cruciform church, parts of which still survive. The north walls of the nave and chancel are Norman but have been restored as has the north transept arch. The church was rebuilt in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the churchyard are a number of medieval crosses one found in the immediate locality is an equal limbed cross. It was once on top of a later discovered inscribed stone. The inscription on the stone is in Roman capitals and in English and reads "Alseth and Generth wrought this family pillar for Aelwyne's soul and for themselves". The stone is thought to date between the 9th and 11th centuries and the cross and inscribed stone are now Scheduled Monuments.

Helsbury

Helsbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort made up of a single bank and external ditch surrounding a diameter area of approximately 140 metres. In the centre of the hillfort the foundations of a rectangular building remain which is thought to be the remains of St Syth's chapel.

Go east on a minor road from Port Isaac to Port Gaverne. Continue on the road east past St Treath to Knightsmill. Then take the road south to Treveighan. Then take the minor road east toward the B3266. The hillfort is beside a small road off the B3266 Camelford-Bodmin road. A stone stile leads onto the site.

Port Isaac - Portusek

Port Isaac/Portusek is a very attractive fishing village northeast of Rumps Point and about ten miles southeast of Camelford. It has been the site of various television productions.

The Rumps

The Rumps Cliff Castle has three lines of ramparts built in the Iron Age, with the inner rampart being the earliest. The outer rampart is smaller from the other two. It has been proposed that this rampart may have been topped with a wooden palisade. The remains of round houses have been found between the middle and inner ramparts and in the interior. Past digs point to two main phases of occupation, beginning in the second century BC and continuing into the first century AD.

The Rumps cliff castle north from Rock along the coast to Pentire Point and Rumps Point and is reached by the coastal path or public footpath from Pentire Farm.

Rock - Karreck

Rock/Karreck is a coastal village on the northeast bank of the River Camel estuary opposite Padstow. It is a popular tourist destination, particularly with those interested in water sports. There is a regular ferry service to Padstow.

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