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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Hendraburnick

Hendraburnick (Cornish: Hendra Bronnik, meaning rushy home farm) is a farmstead near Davidstow, Cornwall, England. On Hendraburnick Down is the source of the River Camel.

In the medieval period, Hendraburnick was a manor held under Launceston Castle. Feet of fines records that in 1383 some land in the settlement of Hendraburnick was held by a Roger Knyght, reverting on his death to a John Lordman of Treleigh.

A 17th century farmhouse there is a grade II listed building.

Hendraburnick Quoit to the north east is a Late Neolithic dolmen, regarded as "the most decorated or deliberately marked stone in southern Britain".

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