Carrack Gladden

Carrack Gladden (Cornish: Karrek Gladn, meaning rock on a bank) is a coastal headland in St Ives Bay at the eastern end of Carbis Bay beach between Hayle and St Ives in west Cornwall.

[1] The cliffs between Carrack Gladden headland and Hawks Point to the east are of metamorphosed Devonian slates and rise to 60 metres (200 ft) high.

The acidic soils exhibit a range of vegetation types including maritime heathland, grassland and scrub.

The heath and grassland habitats at the headland itself support the nationally scarce Soft-leaved Sedge Carex montana.

On the steep, wet cliffs to the east, two other nationally scarce plant species Ivy Broomrape (Orobanche hederae) and Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) are found.