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| BLISLAND stands in the Camel valley on the western slopes of Bodmin
Moor, three miles northeast of Bodmin. Georgian and Victorian houses
cluster around a village green and a church whose well-restored interior
has an Italianate altar and a startlingly painted screen. On Pendrift
Common above the village, the gigantic Jubilee Rock is inscribed with
various patriotic insignia commemorating the jubilee of George III's
coronation in 1809. From this seven-hundred-foot vantage point you look
eastward over the De Lank gorge and the boulder-crowned knoll of Hawk's
Tor , three miles away. On the shoulder of the tor stand the Neolithic
Stripple Stones , a circular platform once holding 28 standing stones,
of which just four are still upright. If you're looking for a place to
stay in the area, try Lavethan (tel 01208/850487, ; £60-70), a beautiful
sixteenth-century manor house set in thirty acres of park-like fields
and gardens sloping to a small river; it's ten minutes' walk from the
village towards St Mabyn. |
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