West Penwith, Upland and Upland Fringe
Author(s): Jeremy Lake
This Character Area lies at the western tip of Cornwall and includes Land’s End. It is bounded to the north, south and west by the Atlantic Ocean. West Penwith is a sparsely populated peninsula, ringed by high cliffs and rising to high, rocky moorland at its centre, with better quality land on the coastal plains. Its character is perhaps more clearly determined by its geology than most areas – a single large granite outcrop giving thin soils on high moorland ridge, with the surrounding rocks mainly Devonian slate rocks, the margins of the granite are associated with mineral veins of tin and copper.
- Report Number:
- 160/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 16
- Keywords:
- Landscape Farmstead Historic
