The Hurlers Stone Circle and Cheesewring on the South Bodmin Moor in Minions

 
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Our family visited the South Bodmin Moor which has a vast and wild landscape in search of the Hurlers Stone Circle located in the quaint town of Minions, England.  A moor can be described as having heather, gorse, exposed rock, rough grassland, and has higher elevation but not mountainous.  We of course loved seeing all the sheep grazing on the moor.

IMG_2916A sweet lamb

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A short walk from the parking lot, will get you to the Hurlers Stone Circle.  There are 3 stone circles and the middle one is slightly elliptical.  The Michael and Mary leyline are said to converge here in the center Circle.

Some of the stones

From here you can walk on to the Cheesewring rock formation which is a natural geological formation.  It is a rock outcrop of granite slabs formed by weathering.

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IMG_2935We all liked climbing around this area.

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IMG_3034For our family, the moor was such a wild landscape and we really enjoyed walking around it.  The parking lot provides some direction to where and how to access the circles and the Cheesewring.  There is an interesting but small informational building in an old mining engineer building.  Public restrooms are available in the small town, but you do need your 20 pence coin to gain access to them.

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