Whipsiderry

Also known as:
Trevelgue
Nearest town:
Newquay (3km SW)
OS reference:
SW8335463720
OS sheet:
200
Latitude:
50° 25' 57.58 N
Longitude:
5° 3' 3.53 W
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Images

Image of Whipsiderry (Round Barrow(s)) by thesweetcheat

Concrete plug in the top of the southwestern barrow. I’m not sure whether this was just to fill a hole or the remains of something else.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.6.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 6, 2015
Image of Whipsiderry (Round Barrow(s)) by thesweetcheat

Slightly smaller – but still impressive. The southwestern barrow.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.6.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 6, 2015
Image of Whipsiderry (Round Barrow(s)) by thesweetcheat

The northeastern barrow. It has a nasty erosion scar, but otherwise is probably the finest clifftop round barrow on the north Cornwall coast.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.6.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 6, 2015
Image of Whipsiderry (Round Barrow(s)) by thesweetcheat

G/F gives scale to the magnificent northeastern barrow.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.6.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 6, 2015
Image of Whipsiderry (Round Barrow(s)) by thesweetcheat

The northeastern barrow in its stunning clifftop setting.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.6.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 6, 2015
Image of Whipsiderry (Round Barrow(s)) by phil

Looking from Watergate bay towards Porth Island. You can also see the twin barrows on the cliff top.

phil
phil Apr 1, 2003
Image of Whipsiderry (Round Barrow(s)) by phil

The double barrows of Trevelgue viewed from St. columb Minor. the church itself is said itself to be built on a pagan site.

phil
phil Apr 1, 2002
Image of Whipsiderry (Round Barrow(s)) by phil

The double barrows at Trevelgue

Image credit: Phil Ellery
phil
phil Nov 9, 2001

Articles

Whipsiderry

C
CARL Apr 30, 2012

Visited 15.4.12

Directions:
Take the B3276 north out of Newquay and drive past the Barrows on Trevelgue Head.
Keep looking to the left and you will see these two Barrows over the hedgerows.
There is a lay by with just enough about room to squeeze a car in opposite the turning for ‘Spheremania’.

I hopped over the gate and made my way across the field towards the Barrows. I then had to hop over a barbed wire fence/wall at the other side of the field. There is a costal footpath which runs right past the Barrows but I am not sure where the nearest point is where you could join it?

Over the years I have been to many, many Barrows – some it great locations, others less so. I have to say that these are probably the best located Barrows I have ever visited. The location is simply stunning!

The sky was blue and there were magnificent coastal views. To the left you were looking back towards Newquay – to the right a rugged Cornish coast. Waves smashing into the rocks sending plumes of white waves into the air. Fantastic.

As for the Barrows themselves, one is approximately 3m high x 25 m across and has been dug into. The other (which is right next to the first) is about 2.5m high x 20m across.

Of all the sites I visited in Cornwall this week, this was the one which sticks in my mind the most. The Barrows are impressive in their own right but those views……..

Do yourself a favour and visit but take care as the Barrows are right on the cliff edge and there are no fences!!

Folklore

Whipsiderry
Round Barrow(s)
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Jun 20, 2023

I [spoke with] an old man of St Columb Minor, called Bill Pierce, who saw Copeland Borlase open the Trevelgue barrows. On the high cliffs, at an equal distance from each of the two Trevelgue tumuli, is a Piskey Ring, with thistles growing here and there on the outer edge. Of this ring he said that it was always there no matter how much the cattle trampled on it. Indeed, I do not remember a year in which I did not notice that Piskey Ring in the same place; I certainly have seen it each summer of ten consecutive years.

The same man, Pierce, told me that if anything was thrown into a Piskey Ring at or after midnight, it would be found flung on to the grass outside before daybreak.

Miss Barbara C. Spencer, Coombe Bank, Kingston-on-Thames.

The Cornish Guardian (quoting the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall), 28th May 1915.

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