Cornish Hedge

16/12/2025

Back to Lanner Green, where its fair to say the 19th Century outbuildings/ boundary retaining walls are in need of a little love...

09/12/2025

Sycamore Gap...a bit of a tidy and we're on to the next. Its been great working in Ponsanooth but there's a sizeable wall that's pressing now..literally...

15/11/2025

Huge Congratulations to Cormac Nelis and Rosie Mulligan both of Oxford Shinty Club, Cornish Hedge's Mens and Ladies Players of the Lowender Shinty Tournament. Oxford came within a single shot of winning both Lowender and the English Shinty League on the final day, but London Camanachd just pipped them too it in the Penalty decider. The strides forward Oxford have taken this year is truly impressive- massive well done all. Photo courtesy Rosie Mulligan.

13/11/2025

Been slightly damp couple weeks, so we took the chance to look at a couple of old maps. With a single piece of 18/19th white-glazed stoneware and a rather sweet pony shoe c65mm long, the hedge is shown on the St Gluvias Tithe Map of 1844 separating the Cosawes Barton to Ponsanooth lane (Commercial Hill) from Plot 109 and it seems likely in was built in the late 18th or early 19th Century.

17/10/2025

23/01/2025

With the rain slowing we're heading back out to Porthleven, where this lovely little garden is a veritable suntrap on the south facing slopes hidden high above Mounts Bay Terrace. The care they've shown crafting this tranquil little spot is fantastic- even the workshop/store is an understated masterpiece, lovingly extended using pallet wood and off-cuts to create a compact workshop, store and a stunning hedgers shelter. The more you look at it, the more you see, not that we've got time to do it justice on camera, so you'll have to take my word for it. The bowed door with its triple layer of wood extending the life of what was in 2005 a bog standard shed...a mini-port-hole, beautifully fitted- all stunning details showing what attention to detail is all about. That the revetment beside it also appears to be on the line of the field enclosure shown on the Sithney Parish Tithe Map (1839-1844), before the parish of Porthleven was created in 1846 makes it all the more special. The alignment of the boundary also shows what appears to be a rare inaccuracy in the rectification process on the Council's on-line historic mapping....The slope was presumably terraced within the existing field system when Mounts Bay Terrace was constructed in 1936. Its evidently had quite a lot of soil creep and resultant successive late 20th Century rebuilds to the original field boundary revetment, though we have found (and repaired) sections of the lower revetment that appear original. Amazing what you discover in a rain break...lets hope we can do it justice!

23/01/2025

We went with a very minimalist repair and retain strategy at Pond lane, with so much in a very bad state of repair on a little used ally. The hedge proved to have had a pretty poor rebuild when the estate was first built, though the original hedge is actually on the Tithe map of c 1839-1844, so its nice to have given it an extra lease of life rebuilding the worse 'sliding' 20th century sections, removing the concrete and rubbish and adding some pinioned mesh to facilitate the smaller hedge flora tying it all together and stabilising it. Trimming back the Blackthorn on the top will also minimise the disturbance from wind.

18/12/2024

Well she may not be looking as inviting as you'ld like today, proper ice bath yesterday, as the wind threw tarp full's of water up into the air and over me head, but what a lovely bunch they are. Invited in for lunch muddy boots and all, beautiful chocolate cake to test out ...and later...as the wind whips the rain into the dark of early evening, the Christmas lights appear sparkling like magic....really could things get much better? I have me souwester (maybe the hood'll not blow off today just as the bath drops...) we'll do our absolute best to get it shipshape before the Christmas break and bring a little cheer to PondLane. What an absolutely lovely bunch you are. Might try catch up with a few pictures over Christmas, but in the mean time, we thank you for all the very kind words you've had for our work this year from Porth Navas, Trenarth to Illogan and Pond Lane we wish you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas.