by Geoffrey | Aug 3, 2024 | Christian, Churches, Cornish Mining, Cornwall, St Just in Penwith, Tin Mining, UK
Hinterland definitions : a region lying inland from a coast a region remote from urban areas, a region lying beyond major metropolitan or cultural centers West Penwith is a region in the far west of the United Kingdom. ...
by Geoffrey | Sep 19, 2023 | Cornwall, Spirituality, UK, United Kingdom, West Penwith
What is a Celtic landscape? The great atlantic ocean buffets the granite cliffs of the West Penwith coastline. The high craggy moors cut through the low scudding clouds. The twisted knotty woods conceal groves where healing wells and clouties draw...
by Geoff | Jul 17, 2023 | Cloudscape, Cornwall, Documentary, Newlyn, Penzance, Promenade, UK, West Penwith
My 5 days in Cornwall has been spent under huge ever changing skies, where clouds roll across an aerial landscape without cessation. I walked from Penzance to Newlyn today along the promenade, and explored a little of Newlyn. The journey is an...
by Geoff | Aug 11, 2017 | UK, West Penwith
“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.” John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance, ...
by Geoff | Jul 30, 2017 | UK, West Penwith
Sit with me here at Porthgwarra let’s listen to the bell in the buoy and notice the way whatever we hadn’t noticed is coming to rest in a greeny-blue interval between the strike of one sour sea-note and the next. And even if it’s true that the voice in the buoy...
