Hensbarrow is a

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in the county of

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, England, UK, that has been recognized as National Character Area 154 by

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. Hensbarrow is an upland region covering an area of just under 12,000

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s immediately north of

St Austell St Austell (; kw, Sans Austel) is a town in Cornwall, England, south of Bodmin and west of the border with Devon. St Austell is one of the largest towns in Cornwall; at the 2011 census it had a population of 19,958. History St Austell wa ...

. It is bounded in the north by the

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and runs from

Retew Retew was a village near St Austell in Cornwall, England, UK, that was mostly demolished in the early 1960s when the nearby Wheal Remfrey china clay quarry and waste heaps were expanded. The village was small, containing 24 houses and a facto ...

and

Treviscoe Treviscoe ( kw, Trevosker) is a village south of St Dennis in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. There are large Imerys china clay Kaolinite ( ) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4. It is an important indu ...

in the west to Redmoor and

Penpillick Penpillick is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK. It is about two miles north of St Blazey on the A390 road.Ordnance Survey ''One-inch Map of Great Britain; Bodmin and Launceston, sheet 186''. 1961. References

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in the east. It is the remnant of a much larger exposed and windswept heather moorland. Its lower, more sheltered areas are covered by irregular livestock fields enclosed by Cornish hedges of stone walls, with scattered hamlets and farmsteads.

China clay Kaolinite ( ) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4. It is an important industrial mineral. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral ...

pits, sand tips and mica dams occupy much of the central area. Its highest point is

Hensbarrow Beacon Hensbarrow Beacon is a hill in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated a mile north-west of Stenalees village at . It is the highest natural point of the Hensbarrow uplands, a natural region and national character area. The natural s ...

(1025 ft).''NCA 154: Hensbarrow. Key Facts & Data.''
at www.naturalengland.gov.uk. Accessed on 2 Sep 2013

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