Walk to the Kenidjack castle from Brison's Veor on New Year's Day

"The best of Cornwall must remain unknown for those who are unable to walk or cannot be induced to make the effort." p.14, Unknown Cornwall, Vulliamy

On New Years day, Sarah, Michael and I took the high road to the Kenidjack castle from our cottage Brisons Veor.

It was a wet and muddy day and I felt a bit of a chill when we were finished.  I had tea at the Cape Cornwall Club to warm up.  The castle felt more like a church than a castle and seemed like most of it had been restored.

"Kenidjack Cliff Castle is one of several Iron Age promontory forts that have been found in exposed coastal locations on the Penwith peninsula. The neck of the headland would have been protected by a triple row of ramparts that dropped steeply from the spine, stopping just short of the edge of a near-vertical cliff. The ramparts are very well-preserved on the northern side, where it is possible to discern the remains of a triple-ditch defence line. Although the outer and central ramparts are covered in vegetation, protruding stones indicate that they were constructed using granite rocks rather than being simple earth embankments." Cornwall Guide.

"Carn Kenidjack or Carn Idzhek, is a place of terrirs.  It is known as the Hooting Carn. A mass of piled and shattered granite, capping the moorland about a mile and a half north-east of St. Just, with a fantastic stony dishevelment- a clumsy, crazy and sinister outline." 

p. 113, Unknown Cornwall