PAST EVENT

Volunteer Days: Survey Cornish hedges on Manor Farm 20th & 21st Feb 2025

Thursday 20th and Friday 21st February

10am – 2pm

Read more about this survey here: Penwith Farms Survey Page

After a hedge repair on this farm by our Introduction course trainees in September, we’d like to revisit Manor farm and take a good look at this and the other hedges for our survey. Manor Farm overlooks both the sea and the incredible World Heritage site of Botallack with its historic engine houses, the count house and a good cafe! Whilst the coastal location comes with its associated flora and fauna, we are also interested to ponder the hedges relationships to the mines and whether we can see hedges that evidence not just field clearances, but also use of mining waste.

Please be sure to book both or one of these days by contacting us below – we have a limited capacity for how many people we can take onto this farm.

Andrew Cockshaw and Cherish Maxwell from CREST will train volunteers on the day in everything they need to know for a fun and successful survey, the farmer and people who volunteer and work on the farm will provide us with further insights.

We’ll be embracing the winter, encouraging everyone to wrap up warm and bring their thermos as we take a good walk around several historic hedges on each farm. We’ll be sharing insights and stories from the farmers that tell us how these hedges were made, how they were used and any local folklore that feeds into our survey.

MANOR FARM DIRECTIONS

Botallack Manor, Botallack Ln, St Just, Penzance TR19 7QG

Google maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/qefbSRxHxSmhhqHG7?g_st=iw

Directions: 

Head for the National Trust Botallack site which you can get to from the B3306. There’s a couple of different routes you might take through Botallack village, either past the Queens Arms or round the back of the village. Either way, you will join to the same track that follows down to the National Trust site. Before you take that track, you will see a small triangular island between intersecting roads with a sign on it. This is right next to Manor Farm, however, it is probably best to use the National Trust Car Park for the day if there is no room in the parking lay-bys on the track as the far doesn’t have anywhere to park.
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