Roche Rock, Nr St Austell, Cornwall
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Roche Rock, Nr St Austell, Cornwall
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: Unknown
Having left its rocky "base camp" this is the next part of the route up to the derelict hermitage chapel of St Michael (1409). The ruins of the chapel were last occupied by some members of a local family who contracted leprosy. It seems that they lived here in order not to infect other local people.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.401768
Longitude
-4.828212