Cornish Killas

The Cornish Killas is a natural region covering most of the county of Cornwall in southwest England.

Much of central Cornwall is a gently undulating, slate plateau with little woodland and few hedgerow trees, dissected by a complex pattern of valleys.

By contrast, the coastline is richly varied, with rugged, windswept cliffs separating broad, sandy bays.

Evidence of Neolithic and Bronze Age farming settlements abounds, with their round-houses, stone wall field enclosures and meadows bordering upland grazing pastures.

By the 18th century the landscape was being dramatically changed by mining for tin, copper and china clay and quarrying for granite.