Hiking

Join us in this video where we walk up Tregonning hill in west Cornwall. Follow us on Instagram Song credits: Penfriend - Everything Looks Different In The Sunshine Many thanks to Penfriend for letting us use her music! Pre-order her new album now: History of the hill: On the top of the hill is Castle Pencaire, an Iron Age hillfort, two rounds and a field system The grade II listed Germoe war memorial is on the summit of the hill within the hillfort. Tregonning Hill is a detached outcrop of the Cornubian batholith. The granite has been altered by kaolinization resulting in china clay. Disused pits, gullies, waste-tips and debris litter the hillside. While visiting the area in 1745, William Cookworthy, a Plymouth chemists observed a very fine clay being u