A picture of Rame Head looking out to Queener Point in cornwall. Taken on my visit to Rame Head Chapel..

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Rame Head Chapel Whitsand Bay
The point’s prominent location, which serves as both a look out to sea and a 360-degree viewpoint across the 4 mile bay of Whitsand, make it the perfect place to construct a building with a view. A such, the site has been occupied by humans for millennia. During the Iron and Bronze Ages, the site was home to a wooden hillfort, as well as various other barrows and structures. Due to the nature of the weather in the area, little of the prehistoric site remains today.

As for the current building, it’s likely that a chapel has stood in situ since at least the time of the Norman Conquest (11th-Century). However, records only date back to the medieval period, when Tavistock Abbey bought the land surrounding Rame Head at some point during in the 12th-Century. This means that despite sitting squarely in Cornwall, the land once belonged to the county of Devon!

The chapel was first licensed for mass in 1425 but it was probably used as a Celtic hermitage prior to this (a small abode where a solitary monk would live). Built as early as 1397 (perhaps even earlier), the chapel is dedicated to St Michael, like many other early chapels in the area.

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Lovely sunset at Mountbatten Plymouth, saw some lads fishing and got this one..

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Plymouth ebankment shipwreck, photographed on one of my walks during lockdown..

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Took this whilst on my way home from Brighton.

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