A recent trip to Cornwall inspires Martin Fone to tell the rather sad story of the ruin and restoration of one of Cornwall’s great 19th century tourist attractions: Logan Rock at Treen, near Land’s End.
Men Omborth, Cornish for ‘balanced stone’, sits about thirty metres above the sea on top of the Teryn Dinas cliffs at Treen in the far west of Cornwall, about three miles or so from Land’s End.
Known as a ‘Logan’ or logging stone — from the Cornish word…
