Bodmin Moor

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Location Bodmin Moor No. 5
The Showery Tor, or Cheesewring, on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor

Bodmin Moor ( Cornish : Goen Bren ) is a 208 km² high moor landscape in north-east Cornwall , Great Britain . The underground consists of granite from the Carbon Age .

The name "Bodmin Moor" was first introduced in 1813 by the state land survey Ordnance Survey . Previously, the area was known as " Fowey Moor" after the river that rises here. The Cornish name "Goen Bren" is certainly even older.

Impressive gates (rock formations created by weathering) rise above the hilly land that was densely populated during the Bronze Age . Many prehistoric barrows and stone circles ( The Hurlers ) can be found scattered across the landscape. Today the region is almost deserted with the exception of the small village of Bolventor . On the southern slopes of the moor lies the Dozmary Pool , into which, according to Arthurian legend , Sir Bedivere threw the Excalibur sword to return to the Lady of the Lake . In addition to the Dozmary Pool, the Colliford Lake reservoir forms another wetland area in Bodmin Moor.

Bodmin Moor has been classified as an Area of ​​Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and forms part of the Cornwall AONB . The highest point, the 420 m high Brown Willy , is also the highest point in Cornwall.

The Jamaica Inn about 6 km south of Brown Willy on the A30 highway is the setting of the 1936 novel of the same name (German title Gasthaus Jamaica ) by Daphne du Maurier and its film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock from 1939 (German title Riff-Piraten und Die Taverne von Jamaika ).

See also

literature

  • Nicholas Johnson, Peter Rose and others: Bodmin Moor. An archaeological survey. Volume 1: The human landscape to c 1800. English Heritage, Swindon 2008, ISBN 978-1-848-02009-2 ( digitized ).
  • Peter Herring (Ed.): Bodmin Moor. An archaeological survey. Volume 2: The industrial and post-medieval landscapes. English Heritage, Swindon 2008, ISBN 978-1-873-59262-5 ( digitized ).
  • Craig Weatherhill: Cornish Place Names and Language. Sigma Leisure, Wilmslow 1995, ISBN 1-85058-462-1 .
  • Rennie Montague Bere : The Nature of Cornwall. The Wildlife and Ecology of the County. Barracuda Books, Buckingham 1982, ISBN 0-86023-163-1 , pp. 63-67.

Web links

Commons : Bodmin Moor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  N , 4 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  W.