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“Cape Cornwall still has that wonderfully romantic, atmospheric, wild, threatening and untamed feeling. I love the coast and the sea anyway and this place sums up what that’s all about - you could easily imagine you were alone in the world up there at the top of the cliffs. It makes me feel very small and insignificant but immensely privileged.  At Cape Cornwall it’s as if you’re standing at the world’s end. It takes some of the "humdrum" out of life, knowing I can get to a place like this!”

ROZ DAVIS, 33 -  a development officer for the NHS.

"I've lived all my life in the county and am still mesmerised by Daymer Bay on the north coast. I used to go there on Sunday school trips back in the early 40s. The first time I went, I remember being overwhelmed by the vastness of the beach and the seemingly huge sea that stretched before me. Through a child’s eyes it was a different, dreamlike world and now, whenever I return, I get the same feeling of how restful and peaceful it is there. It gives me such joy to see children playing the same games on the beach as we did all those years ago”

JEAN COOMBE, 76 -  Cornwall resident 

“The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives is a hidden gem.  Most people ‘do’ the Tate Gallery and feel that ‘art’ has been ticked off their agenda and head for the shops and beaches but for me the bronze, stone and wood forms that are truly at home here in the garden offer a unique insight into the work of this influential artist. In this tranquil spot, the mind can really loose itself and enter a fantasy realm." 

MARK ANDREW DEARDEN, 42 – Headteacher

“I’m lucky enough to live at the bottom of Kit Hill and could easily spend a lot of my time walking around its gorse lined pathways or simply sitting at the top gazing at the wonderful panorama of a patch work of fields and the sea shimmering far off in the distance.  Kit Hill has always been a part of my life. I can remember coming here with my grandparents when I was very young, showing it off to friends when I got older, then later in my life, strolling around putting the world to rights with my husband and nowadays, both of us flying kites with our son.”

RACHEL HUTTY, 46 – Library assistant

“If pixies existed I am certain they would live at Golitha Falls, hiding among the rocks and banks of the river. Their playful antics could inspire our own sense of adventure, by jumping tree stumps and scampering across fallen logs that offer the visitor a bridge from one side of the river to the other. The captivating waterfalls invite you to venture just a little further than usual and the more curious of us are embraced by the mystical depths of the woodlands. If one stops and admires the trees for too long their leafy arms may take you much further than you dare, until you eventually come upon the trickle of a stream that just a while back was a furious, foaming torrent”.

PHIL WATERS, 36 -  Play Officer at the Eden Project