KIT HILL By Chrissie Le Marchant

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CHRISSIE LE MARCHANT: A Geologist by initial training, working in prospecting, goldmining and civil
engineering. About 15 years + as a Countryside Officer managing Kit Hill, the Camel Trail and other Cornish sites and latterly self employed as a Blue Badge Tourist Guide all over the West Country and Wales, and as a Tour Manager all over the UK and Europe.

TALK: The highest point in the Tamar Valley, just over 1000’ amsl, 333.4 m
A blip of granite between Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor, with >10,000 archaeological features in its 400 acres (154Ha) … mostly holes in the ground.
Gifted to the people of Cornwall by the Duchy of Cornwall in 1985 to commemorate the birth of Prince William in 1982 and managed now by Cormac as a Country Park.