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Cornwall is a special place with hundreds of ancient places, amazing coastal ports and harbours, moors and woodlands, all with stunning views that all can still be visited today. From the magic atmosphere of the oldest bronze age barrow site, overlooking Carne beach, to the fantastic and mysterious castle at Tintagel, Cornwall has spiritual energy just waiting for you to find.
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Some of my favourite places include St Michaels Mount with its medieval castle and its causeway, which dominates the bay of Penzance. The“Merry Maidens” is the most perfect ancient stone circle to be found anywhere, with its nineteen stones, it was called locally in Cornish, “Stone Dance”. Legend has it, like the Tippet Stone Circle, the stones represent Maidens who were turned to stone for dancing on the Sabbath. Built around 2200 before Christ, it is similar to the other nineteen stone circle at St.Buryan, but unlike the Merry Maidens it was built for offerings and at its centre has a leaning pillar.
Other circles such as the three found together at “The Hurlers”, the green Neolithic collection of stones at Castlewitch, St Cleer circle at Craddock Moor are all worth visiting. The restored Goodaver stone circle with its stunning views across Bodmin Moor, is thought to be part of to be part of the Bodmin astronomical complex and on a clear evening lying next to the centre stone, gazing up at the stars is a fantastic experience.
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St Nectans Glenn with its majestic waterfall is another special place I like to visit and is listed as one of the ten most spiritual places in the country. The hermitage sanctuary is amazing and was built next to the top of the waterfall in around 500AD by St Nectan who settled there. The water is believed to have many healing properties and a wonderful sense of peace and tranquillity seems to flow around this magical place. Chapel Crane Brea situated on the most westerly hill in the country is another special place and if you visit on midsummer’s day you will see that they still light the beacon just as they have for hundreds of years. It was first used in the bronze age and later a hermitage and chapel were built on the site. It has amazing views over the sea and built high on the cliffs you can only sit in wonder as you take in all this special place has to offer.
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Carn Euny with its fogou is an ancient Iorn age village and it is just amazing to see such a well preserved site in such a stunning location. Actually walking through the underground chamber is an amazingly spiritual experience. There are also hundreds of Fairy Wells and Holy Wells. Lelant has a fabulous and mystic Fairy well which is known for its healing properties, Alsia well is one of my favourite and is lovingly tendered by the fairies. It has been used for centuries by young women seeking divination. It was also frequented by pilgrims around the nineteenth century on the first three Wednesdays in May when they would come to use the water for its curative properties.
Veryan hosts another well that I like to visit and of course not without visiting Milinsey Mill. Walking down from Melinsey Mill through the woods to Pendower Beach at dusk I often see fairys playing amid the woods
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.Besides the countless Fairy rings found throughout Cornwall, one of the best places to find fairy’s are deep in the forests around the mysterious Luxulyan Valley. Walking across the aqueduct to follow in the footsteps of ancient pilgrims along the ancient “Saints Way” is breathtaking, but there is far more than the view, the forest holds many secrets. The only Caducius inscribed on a bronze age chieftains sword was found here, but if you want to know more you will need to contact me as there is a lot more to these woods and they hold many secrets. If you are planning to venture to Cornwall please feel free to contact me and I will tell you even more about these secret and ancient places that I have found and most importantly where to find fairies...
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