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Photo of Minions, a village in Cornwall, south west England.

© Rob Farrow / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Minions

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At around 300m, Minions is the highest village in Cornwall, set out on Bodmin Moor amid the relics of old copper and tin mining. Beside it stand the Hurlers, three Bronze Age stone circles, and a mile north the balanced granite tower of the Cheesewring. Ruined engine houses dot the moor around, walkable on open ground straight from the village.

More places to visit near Minions

Photo of the Cornwall National Landscape, a National Landscape in Cornwall, south west England.Highlight

Cornwall National Landscape

National Landscape near Padstow

The best of Cornwall's coast and moor, gathered into a dozen protected stretches around the county

here

Photo of The Cheesewring, a rock formation near Minions, Cornwall, south west England.Iconic

The Cheesewring

Rock formation near Minions

Precarious stack of weather-sculpted granite slabs on Stowe's Hill above Minions, wrapped in giant legend.

0.2 km W

Photo of Golitha Falls, a National Nature Reserve near St Neot, Cornwall, south west England.Iconic

Golitha Falls

National Nature Reserve near St Neot

Mossy cascades through ancient Bodmin Moor woodland.

4 km SW

Photo of the Tamar Valley, a National Landscape in south west England.Highlight

Tamar Valley

National Landscape near Bere Alston

A steep wooded river valley on the Devon–Cornwall border, deep in old copper-and-arsenic mining history

10.1 km E

Photo of Altarnun, a village in Cornwall, south west England.Highlight

Altarnun

Village

Bodmin Moor village of granite cottages and a packhorse bridge below St Nonna's, the tall 'Cathedral of the Moor'.

10.7 km N · Cornwall

Photo of Kit Hill Country Park, a country park near Minions in the Tamar Valley, Cornwall, south west England.

Kit Hill Country Park

Country park near Minions

A country park in Cornwall.

10.8 km E