West Penwith

The Crown Engine Houses at Botallack

Botallack – one of my favourite places

This has just got to be one of my most favourite places, not just in Cornwall, but anywhere! I used to cycle out here from Penzance as a boy and just marvel at the scale of human endeavour and hardship that led to the construction of the The Crown Engine Houses at Botallack. The rugged

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Lanyon Quoit

Atmospheric Cornwall

There’s no doubt in my mind that Cornwall is a place like nowhere else in the UK, and part of this is because the strange artifacts of our ancestors are left about to view and marvel at. What exactly is the Mên-an-Tol? What use did it have? Why isn’t there another one, somewhere else? [EXIF:

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