Bodmin Moor sweeps along the Duchy’s back, reaching its highest points at Rough Tor and Brown Willy (Hill of Swallows). The moor has granite topped tors, Kilmar Tor and Sharptor, and granite topped hills such as Stowe’s Hill, crowned by the incredible Cheesewring.
Bodmin Moor is a wild place of changeable weather, ferocious winds, and huge clear skies; of little tuneful birds nesting in reeds, wild ponies swishing their manes and tails, and a massive amount of granite. On the high moor are lonely farmhouses and stunted hawthorn trees cowering beneath the weight of the elements. On the edges are villages haunted by footsteps of the past.
Many rivers rise on the moor; the Fowey, Seaton, Tiddy, Inny, Camel and Lyhner. Jamaca Inn, home to travellers, smugglers and ghosts stands on an old road on a particularly exposed and lonely swathe of the moor. Nearby is bottomless Dozmary Pool, and the ever present moor rain fills the recent reservoirs at Sibleyback and Colliford.
Piskeys are the guardians of the moor, making their beds in the peat bogs and leading unsuspecting walkers astray with little lanterns. Best turn your pockets inside out before you go for a walk on Bodmin Moor.
