Cornwall Adventures

Not far from Tintagel is St Nectan’s Glen – a location arguably even more mystical than its better known Camelot counterpart.   Park at Trethevy on the B3263, walk past a holy well and the very old, tiny church of St Piran, admire far-reaching sea views then descend into the shade and shadow of the banks of the River Trevillet.  Awarded Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Special Scientific Interest status, stepping into this ancient wooded valley is like stepping back in

Overlooking Plymouth Sound, the only thing separating Kingsand from Cawsand is a small stream that these days goes virtually unnoticed. Insignificant as it might seem, however, that stretch of running water was, for centuries, the boundary between Devon and Cornwall.    You can still see what used to be the border on the front of one of the picturesque cottages today – set against a blue-painted wall, the old demarcation line is black and the house itself is appropriately nam

Thought to have been built in the Roman period between the first and third centuries AD, Chysauster is the site of an ancient hamlet in West Cornwall that comprised eight houses in a compact group of two rows of four each, with other outlying homes to the south west.  Each of the dwellings had the same kind of basic layout: an entrance leading to an open courtyard and a number of rooms (usually three) branching off it.  It’s thought that the people who lived there were farmer

When it comes to secrecy, Nancekuke can claim top billing.  Covering several hundred acres of land between Portreath and Porthtowan, few people in the 1950s and 60s had any idea that the former RAF station was playing a major role in Cold War politics by producing Sarin – a notoriously lethal nerve agent.  From 1954 until 1956, scientists were quietly going about their business there manufacturing tons of the odourless liquid that could, once inhaled, kill within minutes. Whe