Places to visit

Penhallam Manor

The medieval ruin of the moated manor house at Penhallam is thought to date from the late twelfth Century. The earliest part of the site dates to around 1180-1200 and were more extensively developed around 1224-1236.

Managed by English Heritage the site is open at all times of the year and entry is free. It is reached by a path through woodlands from a small car park or by a public footpath through Bury Court. It is east of the A39 at Treskinnick Cross north of Week St Mary.

Week St Mary

The Domesday Book of 1086 records Week St Mary as the manor of Wich, with St Mary added later. At that time, Wich had six villagers and ten smallholders. A Norman castle is situated to the west of the church and a low circular mound is the remains of a Norman motte. The village today follows the layout of the medieval town. The current church building dates to the 14th and 15th centuries, with parts of the Norman stonework remaining. The chantry chapel of St John the Baptist, was founded by Dame Thomasine Percival in 1508 as was the Grammar School.

North Tamerton

North Tamerton is a village southeast from Whitstone off the B3254 and about eight miles north of Launceston close to the River Tamar and is largely rural in character. There is a fifteenth century church in the village.

Boyton - Trevoya

Boyton/Trevoya is a village close to the River Tamar, on a minor road south from North Tamerton and is about six miles north of Launceston. Boyton parish church is on the site of an earlier Norman Church and the font is from that period. The tower is fourteenth century and partially rebuilt at a later stage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pages

Subscribe to Places to visit