The West Penwith Moors are a precious landscape – won’t the Trust’s plans completely change the look of the Moors?
The West Penwith Moors are a very precious landscape – one which the Trust cares greatly about. However, in recent years, the heathland landscape – which generations of local people, writers and artist once knew – has started to disappear. The West Penwith Moors are not wildernesses in any true sense, but the by-product of centuries of grazing, cutting, burning, and of course mining: It is the loss of these activities that is now threatening the heathland landscape and people’s access to them. The greens and browns of the bracken and gorse are covering the moors, but the traditional heathland landscape is a wonderfully vibrant patchwork of pink and purple heathers and yellow gorse.
