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Roche at a glance

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Step into Roche and feel the heartbeat of Cornwall's industrial soul, softened by its rural embrace. This isn't a postcard perfect coastal idyll, but a place of rugged, earthy beauty, shaped by millennia of geology and centuries of human endeavour. Expect skies dotted with gulls and horizons hinting at vast china clay workings , a

Roche's very name, derived from the French 'rock', points directly to its most striking feature: the towering Roche Rock, a quartz schorl outcrop crowned by an ancient, roofless chapel dedicated to St Michael. This dramatic landmark has stood guard for centuries, reputedly a hermitage and even a leper hospital. However, it's the 18th century's china

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