Nanpean Local Areas of Interest
Cornwall as you may well be aware is littered with a history that would fill the belly of any historian over and over again.
From its industrial past to its quaint and intriguing coastal havens, many of which have been in use for centuries and still thrive today. One such instance is the Cornwall ‘China Clay Country’, which, incidentally, is where we live!
This is undoubtedly the biggest man-made change made in the county that has altered it so much, that it is now nicknamed the ‘Cornish Alps’. Whilst the clay mountains have lost their whiteness due to much work done by Imerys, the Cornish China Clay Company. They have landscaped the mountains of waste materials produced after removing the clay, and the ‘alps’ were visible from many miles away. Today, however, they look like normal hills and mountains full of greenery and trees.
As we visit local places, we shall list them here for you to see, and maybe if you are lucky enough to visit this beautiful and rugged county, you too will be able to see them for yourselves.