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BLISLAND stands in the Camel valley on the western slopes of Bodmin Moor, three miles northeast of Bodmin. Georgian and Victorian houses cluster around a village green and a church whose well-restored interior has an Italianate altar and a startlingly painted screen. On Pendrift Common above the village, the gigantic Jubilee Rock is inscribed with various patriotic insignia commemorating the jubilee of George III's coronation in 1809. From this seven-hundred-foot vantage point you look eastward over the De Lank gorge and the boulder-crowned knoll of Hawk's Tor , three miles away. On the shoulder of the tor stand the Neolithic Stripple Stones , a circular platform once holding 28 standing stones, of which just four are still upright. If you're looking for a place to stay in the area, try Lavethan (tel 01208/850487, ; GBP60-70), a beautiful sixteenth-century manor house set in thirty acres of park-like fields and gardens sloping to a small river; it's ten minutes' walk from the village towards St Mabyn.
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