The Great Cornish Hedges Survey!

We don't know about you, but we love our hedges. Kernewek folks have been building them for ages, since before Stonehenge (and likely long before that). We know that Cornish hedges are (probably definitely) the best hedges in the world. We know that there is no one type of Cornish hedge. They vary by height, width and depth. They can have trees on or in them, or not. They can be anywhere and in towns and villages as well. They can be green or stony, furzy or bare. Some of them have gurt rocks at the base. Some have oodles of tiny stones all counter laid like Jack and Jill.

We have been talking with our friends at the Cornwall Rural Education & Skills Trust (CREST). They have asked for our help. They want to build a map of all the different hedging styles found in Kernow. We want you to help us identify all the types and most importantly what the ones look like near you. We'd like you to photograph as many as you can and upload them to this site. But! We want you to mark on the maps where they came from (and maybe how big they are or if there is anything special about them). We will share them with CREST. This will help them know which type of hedge to build where. Then they can train people to build the right hedge for the right place.