Unless you coming over from visiting Stannon, Louden Hill and Fernacre, the obvious place to start from is the Roughtor car park. As you walk up, ancient settlements pepper the landscape to your right and are well worth a detour. It’s a seemingly never ending walk up to the summit of Roughtor. It gets progressively steeper and seems to get further away. But it’s well worth it, despite a gale force wind. Fernacre Stone Circle can be seen from the South side of the Tor. I’ve added loads of other ancient sites in the wider area so no-one can ever complain there is only a good view to see and little more.
After an hour of this wind I started to find that I could hardly see anymore!
Mellow out! This is a day to be enjoyed! A not-too-bad stroll up to the roof of the moors and-woah! Too much to describe, you just have to go there and be blown away in more ways than one. Spend a little time in the past as kings looking down to the green and remnants of ancient places. Everywhere I went in Cornwall thereafter I could see the tor and be reminded how lowly I was. Awesome...
Don't like to be fussy but it is pronounced row (as in argument).
To get to Roughtor drive to Camelford and head SE, a single track road takes you out to a car park(look out for the big dipper !!) and from ther it is a good walk up to the tor. On your way you will pass many hut circles, head for the left end of the tor as it is easier to ascend the top from there.
Don't miss the Charlotte Drymond memorial stone to the right of the ford just below the carpark. A modern day menhir.
this is pronoucned "ro-aw" Tor in case you are asking for directions, I used to come here as a child with my hippy pairents.
Theres a few spots on the top of the Tor that are bucket shaped, I don't know how, I doubt weathering or glacial movements could cause such a thing, but if you dont mind sitting on some litchen, they make excellent seats!
Theres no hotels or such like around this area, its dead on Bodmin Moor. There is a car park.
At the top is a little black post, placed by OS I think.
I'm going from memory here, as I live on the other side of the planet these days, but Roaw Tor is certainly a special place, when the wind kicks up on an autumns evening, looking up at the steadily brightening stars, you can feel like youre the only thing alive, on this barren outcrop of granite.
How to Become a Witch
Touch a Logan stone nine times at midnight, and any woman will become a witch.
Source: Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England; or, The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall (London: John Camden Hotten, 1871), p. 321.
If you're up here, find it. It's strange, weathered boulder with a depression and notch eroded/carved? Right at the top of the northern peak of Rough Tor, just along from the war memorial plaque with the dragon on it.
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