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Located in Calstock, Cornwall, South West England, England
'The Prospect Tower. This late 18th century folly, commands a wide view, eastwards over the River Tamar to Dartmoor, westwards over Cornwall and southwards over Plymouth and Rame Head. The spiral staircase was put in by...
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Located in Calstock, Cornwall, South West England, England
If you walk, for example, the high paths of Maddacleave Wood on a sunny day and look west across the River Tamar into Cornwall, you'll see light reflected from the market garden nurseries at Calstock. The nurseries that...
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Located in Calstock, Cornwall, South West England, England
'THE NATIONAL TRUST. THIS CHAPEL, DEDICATED TO SS. GEORGE AND THOMAS A BECKET, WAS BUILT C.1490 BY SIR RICHARD EDGCUMBE AS A THANK OFFERING FOR HIS PRESERVATION FROM HIS ENEMIES, FROM WHOM HE ESCAPED ON THIS SPOT IN THE...
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Located in Calstock, Cornwall, South West England, England
'Calstock - A Thriving Industrial Port. Calstock Town grew around one of the oldest Tamar ferry crossings - by the Nineteenth Century it was a thriving river port with its own registered shipping company and with almost...
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Located in Watergate, Cornwall, South West England, England
Stem Point is at the northern end of Watergate Beach/Tregurrian Beach. The cliffs here run around Stem Cove to Griffin's Point. The latter is topped by the remains of an Iron Age cliff castle. Stem Point is owned and man...
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Located in Watergate, Cornwall, South West England, England
There are a high number of Iron Age cliff castles on the North Cornwall coast. Newquay Trevelgue Head Cliff Castle is at the southern end of Watergate Bay where it meets Newquay Bay. Park Head Cliff Castle is to the nort...
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Located in Watergate, Cornwall, South West England, England
Watergate Beach/Tregurrian Beach is a big, low tide stretch of sand running from the Newquay area north to Stem and Griffin's Points. Roughly in the middle of this, where the high cliffs dip towards the beach, is Waterga...
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Located in Tavistock, Devon, South West England, England
Sir Francis Drake was born in Tavistock in the middle of the 16th century. Later in his life, Drake lived at nearby Buckland Abbey. There's another Drake statue in Plymouth on Plymouth Hoe overlooking Plymouth Sound and...
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