Celebrating the Clay Country

The Rescorla Festival, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, is an opportunity to celebrate and learn about the Clay Country, an enchanted but sometimes overlooked part of Cornwall through music, literature, dance, food & drink, walks and talks and lots more.

Ever noticed the strange and other-worldly China Clay pits that rise out between Bodmin & St Austell and wondered about the communities that live there and the history of the landscape?Or maybe you live in Cornwall and want to learn more about the customs and traditions that have grown up around the Clay Country? Or perhaps you have stories to tell?
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Description of the Clay Country by Daphne du Maurier, in Vanishing Cornwall:

”The strange, almost fantastic beauty of the landscape, where spoil-heaps of waste matter shaped like pyramids point to the sky, great quarries formed about their base descending into pits filled with water, icy green like arctic pools.“