<< Our Photo Pages >> Roche Rock - Rock Outcrop in England in Cornwall
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Roche RockCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.401 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Cornwall Type: Rock Outcrop
Nearest Town: St Austell Nearest Village: Roche
Map Ref: SW99105962
Latitude: 50.402033N Longitude: 4.828369W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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BodMoor visited on 3rd Jun 2015 - their rating: Amb: 5 I live nearby. There is a popular local belief that there is a tunnel leading from somewhere close to the chapel into the "old village centre". It is believed that the tunnel was used by the people of the chapel to collect alms from the villagers to give to its diseased charges. The tunnel was supposedly deliberately covered over, at some time in the past, using one of the large granite boulders nearby, as it had become a danger to inquisitive children.
How accurate this is, I have no idea. I mention it as it is a local belief only.
coin visited on 1st Jan 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3
ChasDrown visited on 1st Jan 1952 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4
lucasn visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4
hevveh TheCaptain Bladup h_fenton cazzyjane have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.67 Ambience: 4.25 Access: 3.67
Roche Rock stands out as a rocky outcrop some 20 metres high on the northern flank of the St Austell granite with an approximate outcrop of some 600m x 300m. The rock is of interest to geologists as it is a fine example of quartz shorl: a fully tourmalinised granite, with black tourmaline crystals.
The Rock itself lies 500 metres north of the northern margin of the St Austell granite, the smallest of the five main apophyses of the Hercynian batholith of Southwest England. The outcrop is considered to have been close to the roof of the a intrusion as indicated by the presence of numerous pegmatites occurring as sheets and containing abundant miarolitic cavities carrying quartz, tourmaline, zinnwaldite, topaz and a wide range of other phases.
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