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Bodmin Moor

Granite moorland in northeastern Cornwall, England

Placeprotected area raised bog massifQ889885

Country: United Kingdom
Located in: Cornwall

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Bodmin Moor is a granite moorland in north-eastern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 208 square kilometres (80 sq mi) in size, and the granite dates from the Permian period of geological history. It includes Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall, and Rough Tor, a slightly lower peak. Many of Cornwall's rivers have their sources here. It has been inhabited since at least the Neolithic era, when early farmers started clearing trees and farming the land. They left their megalithic monuments, hut circles and cairns, and the Bronze Age culture that followed left further cairns, and more stone circles and stone rows. By medieval and modern times, nearly all the forest was gone and livestock rearing predominated.

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Highest point: Brown Willy
Heritage designation: International Dark Sky Park(since 2017)
Historic county: Cornwall

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50.5625, -4.6132OpenStreetMap ↗

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