Bodmin Moor is one of Cornwall’s designated areas of Outstanding ancient monuments, such as Hurlers, Rillaton Barrow, the Trippet Stones and countless other cairns and settlements. The South-East corner of the moor forms part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site. 

For a period of 50 years from 1835, the South Caradon Mine was one of the most prosperous in the world financed by the miners themselves, an investment of £64,000 would see a return of £15 million.  Dramatic granite tors are scattered over the moorland the best known are Brown Willy. The highest point in Cornwall at 1368 feet and Rough Tor at 1300 feet.

The Cheesewring is a bizarre, natural landmark, consisting of large plates of granite balanced precariously on top of one another, and apparently named after the pulped apples in cloth bags that were called ‘cheeses’ used to make cider.  From the Cheesewring, the trail of Liskeard and Caradon Railway can be followed for much of its route to Moorswater from where first a canal and later a railway carried the copper ore and stone