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There are quite a few old granite quarries on Bodmin moor, so maybe from there.
Helman tor was a Neolithic settlement around 5000 years ago but I don't think it was ever worked as a quarry, a very intresting place.
The rope store and other parts of the harbour at Charlstown were used for the filming of the very popular Poldark television drama.

Having visited Port Isaac several times, it took me a surprisingly long time to realise why the setting for Doc Martin looked familiar!
 
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There's a powerful religiosity to this photograph! Totally life-affirming!
 
Thanks for that - I still don't know what it means. I take it that the Tamar is a river? Separates you from them? Outsiders - the other. Them bad - you good? I
@Digimonkey ,
Ha, yes the Tamar is the river that just about cuts Cornwall off from the rest of Britain. Cornwall has always been insular because it's right at the bottom, cut off from everyone else so for a long time if you wasn't born here you was eyed with some mistrust. Since tin mining and fishing has gone down hill to be almost non existent tourism has become the main source of income for cornwall and although it's become a necessary part of Cornwall a lot of the old Cornish people still remember back to before the 60s when Cornwall was for the Cornish, and they don't like it.
So, words like Emmits were used to discribe the tourists comming down here. (In the Cornish language Emmit means ant) and Grockles is more of a south west word for a holiday maker comming to Devon or Cornwall.
Now there is the problem of the buying up of Cornish houses by the rich holiday makers and turning places like Rock and Port Isaac into ghost villages in the winter because half the property's are second homes which doesn't sit too well because the house prices have shot up in the last 20 years and the average Cornishman can not now afford to buy a house down where he was born.
Of course it started with greed of the Cornishman who accepted the large cash offer for his old cottage instead of keeping in Cornish hands so really they have no one to blame but themselves .
So that is it, we don't particurly like tourists because they are like ants with their strainge ways of talking and rush rush rushing everywhere, never with the time to stop and wonder at the beauty around them, filling up the roads to gridlock and buying up the houses, but we need them so we will welcome them but call them Emmits or Grockles behind their backs and charge them a stupid amount of money for a pasty or ice cream when they get here in the summer.
I hope I have explained things better this time. :)
 
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