Walking in Cornwall. 3/4/25
This is the authors first book. The Salt Path usually starts from Poole , Lulworth, Weymouth, Lyme Regis, Sidmouth, Dawlish, Warren, Brixham, Salcombe, Plymouth , Podruan, Gorran Haven, Fulmouth, Kynance Cove, Penzance, Land's End. Then heads northwards St. Ives, Newquay, Padstow, Tinagel, Bude , Hartland, Westward Ho, Combe Martin, Minehead.
Ray's husband Moth was diagnosed with corticobasal degeneration CBD. he had pains in his shoulder and was given a drug Pregabalin that helped for pain but turned him into a bit of a zombie. They had made a bad investment with a friend who went bankrupt and they were shareholders and lost they farm and home.
1381 the first statute against begging came with the Peasants Revolt. 1547 the saw the dissolution of monasteries. Between the 16C and 19C brought about the Enclosures Acts and more homelessness.
1744 of Vagrancy Act, categorized beggars, vagabonds, idle and rogues. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars homeless numbers increased again. This resulted in the another Vagrancy Act of 1824.
2014 Antisocial Behaviors Crime and Policing Act to do with Public Space Disorders Act. There is a wide spread belief that homeless are alcoholics, drug takers and suffering from mental health issues.
They started at Minehead and had an income of £48 per week. They could stay in private camping sites where hot water and showers were available but that cost £5 per person per night, they did this at times to wash and clean up.
Sleeping in a tent rough they always had dog walker early in the morning around.
The Coast Path had been establish by the Coast Guard so they could see every cove and bay against smugglers. In 1978 the last section of this was completed in Devon. Westward Ho! was named after a novel by Charles Kingsley 1855 about English pirates. They ran out of Pregabalin medication and Moth felt pain and cold turkey and they were thinking of going back when after 4 days he recovered felt the pain badly but became lucid again.
Clovelly is a privately owned village and the Hamlyn family rent out the homes to tenants farmers.
Greenham Common. American nuclear warheads were stored here and in 1983 and there were protests against this.
Robert Steven Hawker (1803–1875) a parson who worried about the burials of shipwrecked sailors and was a poet . He build a hut in a cove in Morewentow and it is now owned by the National Trust.
Doc Martin was a fictional series filmed at at Port Isaac. They met South Africans but especially Australian surfers hired as Life Guards at Harlyn Bay or working on roadsides cutting the brush. They came for the summer and were surfing when not on duty.
Project Neptune owns a lot of the coast and is supposed to protect it from the ocean.
Bernard Leach 1920 set up a pottery training at St. Ives where his museum is today.
In season there are lots of blackberries here but you have to eat them just before the get overripe otherwise they are sour. By carrying his heavy load and marching the trail Moth was able to lose weight and had become healthy later when it got colder his muscles became too stiff and painful. Activity and keeping his mind alert was his fight against his illness.
Greevor was a tin mine till 1991 when it closed and without pumps the sea filled it up to sea level. The miners spread as far as Australia, others worked building the Channel Tunnel. The Cornish Mining World Heritage site became a tourist attraction. At lands End a Heinze Baked Beans label is can be seen as they bought the cape for the National Trust in 1987 .
John le Carre (ne David Cornwall)1931 to 2020 Le Carré lived in St. Buryan Cornwall, for more than 40 years; he owned a mile of cliff near Land' End. The house, Tregiffian Cottage.
1981 Christmas. The cargo ship Union Star on her maiden voyage when her engines failed. In this storm the life boat William Brown recued 4 people and disappeared, both vessels and crews drowned, thus 8 of the town and 8 of the crew . The town of Mousehole had reporters for weeks after that and was in world press.
Fulmouth University next to Pendinnis Castle which was build in 1540 by Henry VIII.
North of St Austell is the land of the china clay pits of kaolin, this also led to vast mine dumps around the quarry. Thousand of tons of clay were moved out and shipped off from Charlestown harbour.
Charlestown is a picturesque harbor with tall ships, became know by the TV series Poldark.
Menabilly Estate was the place that Daphne du Maurier rented a house and dreamt of Mandalay and Rebecca.
During winter her friend Polly invited them to stay in a small cottage that had been a barn and Moth a trained plasterer completed the walls. He however found that this work was very painful on his arms and shoulders. Polly came to her and told her that the shearing team needed a fleece packer. As the fleece is shorn she would take it and fold it into a bag. They travelled around to the farms of the area some big and some small family places. She earned £1500 for the season but Polly now had a sheep shearer who was a potential paying tenant for the shed.
At the start of summer they came to Poole. The World Heritage Site runs from Orcombe Point to Exmouth for 92 miles. This is the Jurassic coast and in this area the erosion has exposed rocks with 185 million years of history, through the Triassic , Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
There are people here who want to return the forest to the indigenous heath as described by Thomas Hardy (1840 to 1928) in the Woodlanders.
Chisel beach is not a beach but a 15 meter high and 18 mile long barrier or a tombolo (Italian for pillow) The pebbles are fist size in Portland but grape size in West bay.
2007 the Napoli ran into trouble and a mile off listed and dropped her containers and scavengers came to look for the motorbikes, perfumes and wines that came off many said they were volunteering to clean up this ecological disaster.
They were offered a small flat in Polrun and Moth received a student loan to study as he could not work physically while Ray became a writer.
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