Nobody knows the origins of these Neolithic monuments nor much about the people who so long ago managed to heave huge stones on top of others in what is now recognised as the very beginning of architecture. There are ancient monuments here: the Hurlers, Rillaton Barrow, Trippet Stones, Leskernick stone circles, and numerous cairns, menhirs and settlements.
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This is a ‘sacred’ or ‘ritual’ landscape, full of hundreds of stones that have been shifted to visually align with the moorland topography. The greatest stretch of moorland, where Jamaica Inn lies, is a timeless place with abandoned mines and infinite open spaces, ‘a country of stones, black heather, and stunted broom.’ The Cornish MoorsĪs du Maurier explains in Vanishing Cornwall, most of the backbone of Cornwall consists of moorlands, from the source of the Tamar River in the north to the south-west, all the way to Penwith and the claw that is Land’s End. In November 1930, he suggested that she and his daughter Foy should go on a horse riding expedition on Bodmin Moor and spend a few nights at a wayside hostelry called Jamaica Inn. He was a Cornish writer and academic and something of a mentor to Daphne. Q, as he was known, lived in Fowey, across the water from her Bodinnick home Ferryside. She owed her first sight of this now famous inn to a suggestion by her friend Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. In her early twenties, Daphne du Maurier had an eerie experience on Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor, which gave her the bones for Jamaica Inn, one of her most popular novels.
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