We've added two new walks in the far northwestern corner of Cornwall, past St Ives and beyond the reach of Victorian "civilisation". These were some of the last Cornish-speaking areas, and the Celtic culture is less diluted here than in many other parts of Cornwall. View Walk View Walk West of St Ives, the huge lump of what is termed "Lands End Granite" creates a moorland landscape that resembles Dartmoor if you look inland, but for around a mile from the coast is a flat "bench" dotted with farms. The bench was formed when sea levels were higher and West Penwith was an island, cut off from the mainland by a gulf located around Hayle and St Erth. The wave action cut a platform into the granite, and when the climate cooled and sea levels dropped, the bench and the Hayle Valley were unveiled. The land here has been farmed since the Bronze Age and the ancient Celtic field systems are still intact. Most fields are square rather than rectangular as
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