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Tregeseal Stone Circle with Carn Kenidjack on horizon View to St Just from Carn Kenidjack
Carnyorth Moor is a large area of moorland close to the 'First and Last Town' of St Just, with easy access so that it is well used by local walkers and horse riders, as well as groups of school children staying at the nearby Carnyorth Outdoor Centre. The northern half of the moor is owned by the Tregothnan Estate (Lord Falmouth) and the southern half by the Warren Farm Trust - a local group. The area is a mixture of western gorse and heathers, as well as the ubiquitous bracken and scrub, but in no way can be considered an overgrown impassable mass of vegetation. The area is crossed by over ten public rights of way, some of which have not been cleared of scrub for the past four decades.
Most of the south-eastern half is a single large scheduled ancient monument in its own right, with numerous prehistoric and medieval field systems, chambered cairns, rounds, barrows and holed stones. Other prehistoric sites lie outside this scheduled area but still within the proposed HEATH Project: these include barrows, a chambered cairn, and the Tregeseal Stone Circle where some of the stones are only just embedded in the earth.
The HEATH Project has plans to introduce cattle on this moor and to erect the obligatory stock proofing. This will include one new cattle grid with by-pass gate, as well as eleven new bridle gates and/or field gates; also some lengths of new barbed wire across an open stretch of moors (information from Natural England map dated 24/1/2008). To date (15/11/2008) not much work has taken place apart from some clearance of scrub on the Bog Inn side of the moor where new fencing is to be erected.
Sketch map showing approximate area considered for fencing and grazing. The red area is a mixture of barbed wire fencing and existing stock proof boundaries. Note that Tregeseal Stone Circle, the group of Holed Stones, several barrows and fragile prehistoric field systems all lie within this area.