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Dozmary Pool

Bolventor, Cornwall

Bolventor, Launceston PL15 7TP

Open daily

free

About Dozmary Pool

A remote and wind-swept pool on the heart of Bodmin Moor, Dozmary is steeped in Arthurian legend — it is one of several places claimed as the lake into which Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur as Arthur lay dying. Once thought to be bottomless, it is in fact quite shallow, but the atmosphere of the moor around it — especially in winter — remains genuinely unearthly.
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Jamaica Inn

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The eighteenth-century coaching inn on the old packhorse route across Bodmin Moor was immortalised by Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name. The inn retains its atmospheric stone exterior and houses a museum dedicated to du Maurier and to the smugglers and wreckers of her story. Whether the ghosts she encountered here actually exist is, perhaps, best left unresolved.

2.1 km away

Golitha Falls

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The River Fowey cascades through ancient sessile oak woodland in a series of waterfalls and rapids that are particularly dramatic after rain. The National Nature Reserve protecting the woodland has one of the best surviving examples of upland Atlantic oakwood in Cornwall — lichens, mosses and ferns of rare quality carpet the boulders and trees in every shade of green.

2.7 km away

Doublebois Village

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3.7 km away

Dobwalls Village

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4.1 km away

Common Moor Village

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Common Moor or Commonmoor is a hamlet in Cornwall, England. As a programmatic destination page, it works well as a hub for nearby beaches, walks, heritage sites, food spots and local itinerary links across CornwallMagazine.

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Carnglaze Caverns

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Three enormous slate caverns carved from the hillside above the Fowey valley during centuries of slate quarrying, Carnglaze's cathedral-like chambers are of extraordinary scale and beauty. The deepest contains an underground lake of impossibly clear, pale blue water, and the acoustics of the main chamber make it a popular venue for concerts. Few attractions in Cornwall are as otherworldly.

4.7 km away

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