Minions, the Hurlers and the Cheesewring

Just under four miles from the highest village in Cornwall past three Bronze Age stone circles to a stack of balanced granite above an old quarry, two hours with 160 metres of climbing on open moor. Start at the free car park at Minions, on the road up from Liskeard, where there is a pasty shop and toilets. There are no stiles on the route, which suits any dog, but sheep and moorland ponies graze freely all year, and dogs must be on a lead no more than two metres long between 1 March and 31 July for ground-nesting birds; the quarry edges below the Cheesewring are sheer and unfenced.