Brown Willy
Brown Willy | ||
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The mountain of Rough Tor seen from |
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height | 420 m ASL | |
location | Cornwall , England | |
Coordinates | 50 ° 35 '23 " N , 4 ° 36' 13" W | |
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particularities | highest point in Cornwall |
Brown Willy (from the Cornish Bron Wennyly "Swallow's Hill ") is 420 m high, the highest point in Bodmin Moor and Cornwall .
Sometimes the name is derived from bron ughella - "highest hill".
The hill is the location of two cairns and several remains of settlement areas as well as a house platform.
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- Craig Weatherhill: Cornish Placenames and Language . Sigma Leisure, 1995. ISBN 978-1850584629