The Duchy of Cornwall, a peninsula jutting out into the mighty Atlantic Ocean in the far south west of Britain, is the setting for the TV blockbuster series, 'Poldark'. With its rugged cliffs, golden sandy beaches and pretty fishing villages, Cornwall has some of the best coastline in Europe, and the quality of the light here attracted many top artists in the early-twentieth century, giving rise to the famous St Ives School.
The Penwith area contains more ancient monuments and sites than any other place in Britain. This is one of the longest consecutively settled landscapes in the world, where Neolithic megaliths, Bronze Age field systems, Iron Age hill forts and Celtic holy wells, are sited cheek by jowl with medieval farmsteads and abandoned tin and copper mines.
Indeed, Cornwall was at the very vanguard of the British Industrial Revolution, producing the majority of its tin and copper, and its iconic engine houses and other industrial buildings now form part of the UNESCO Cornish Mining World Heritage Site.
With its mild climate due to the Gulf Stream, spring in Cornwall is especially delightful, as a dazzling display of wild flowers pepper the cliff tops, moors and valleys.
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Locations featured in this film include Godrevy Lighthouse, Sennen Cove, Porthcurno, Pednvounder, Penberth Cove, Porthgwarra, Porth Nanven, Lanyon Quoit, Mên-an-Tol, Chûn Quoit, Madron Well, St Michael's Mount, Ding Dong Mine, Botallack Mine, Wheal Coates, Wheal Owles and Enys Dodnan.