Bodmin Moor

'Sun sparkles on mica in the granite' on Bodmin Moor, with a view south across Cornwall.

Country diary: North Hill, Cornwall 2011

The original Ekopod – a stylish white geodesic tent with a wood-burner, wooden terrace platform, separate bathroom with woodburner-heated bathtub and kitchen tent in its own field near Bodmin Moor – was booked up for the whole of last summer.

New UK accommodation for 2011 2011

Hogweed, pale pink valerian and festoons of bedstraw line a lane and frame distant views of Hawk's Tor, up on the edge of Bodmin Moor above the Lynher river.

Country diary: North Hill, Cornwall 2011

The 49-year-old, who was on holiday with his family, was pulled from the river Fowey at Golitha Falls on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor on Sunday afternoon.

Teenager who died on Scafell Pike is named as Lee Jones 2012

On Bodmin Moor, meanwhile, he points out some nondescript stones that are actually the remains of someone's prehistoric sitting-room.

The Making of the British Landscape by Francis Pryor 2010

Rolls of cloud obscure Dartmoor tors but Kit Hill and its summit stack stand clear, and to the west peeps Caradon on Bodmin Moor.

Country diary: Tamar Valley Virginia Spiers 2010

I like this for its capable, independent heroine, Mary Yellan, its suspenseful and adventurous plot featuring smugglers and wreckers, and the superbly described Cornish landscapes, from brooding Bodmin Moor to the softness of the south coast and the savage beauty of the north.

Archive 2006-07-01 Carla 2006

Would Jamaica Inn have its atmosphere of brooding evil without the bleak and barren landscape of Bodmin Moor looming on every page?

Archive 2006-07-01 Carla 2006

Would Jamaica Inn have its atmosphere of brooding evil without the bleak and barren landscape of Bodmin Moor looming on every page?

Deja vu - locations and place names Carla 2006

I like this for its capable, independent heroine, Mary Yellan, its suspenseful and adventurous plot featuring smugglers and wreckers, and the superbly described Cornish landscapes, from brooding Bodmin Moor to the softness of the south coast and the savage beauty of the north.

Five favourite historical novels Carla 2006