Rod Allday / Cornish hedge on The Lizard / CC BY-SA 2.0

This is a post about an endangered craft from the United Kingdom Cornish Hedging. In case you have any materials on this topic, you're welcome to register with us and upload your documents. We should make every effort to save this craft!

This post is divided into several sections.

Statistics

Historic area of significance: Cornwall
Area practiced currently: Cornwall
Origin in the UK: Bronze age

Documentation

This is where all of the PDFs are located.

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Building a turf hedge:
buildturf.pdf
121kB
(5 pages)
Checklist for inspecting new or repaired cornish hedges:
checklist.pdf
134kB
(4 pages)
Building hedges in Cornwall:
building.pdf
12MB
(49 pages)
Code of good practice for Cornish hedges:
code-cor.pdf
110kB
(3 pages)
Comments of the DEFRA Hedgerow Survey Handbook:
comments2nded.pdf
208kB
(8 pages)
Glossary of associated Cornish words:
corglossy.pdf
175kB
(6 pages)
Unusual old features in Cornish hedges:
features.pdf
7MB
(22 pages)
The life and death of a flailed Cornish hedge:
flaildiary.pdf
17MB
(96 pages)
Gates and gateways in Cornish hedges:
gates.pdf
5MB
(11 pages)
Geology and hedges in Cornwall:
geology.pdf
3MB
(9 pages)
Geology and Cornish hedges:
aonb.pdf
1MB
(12 pages)
Code of good practice. Building and repairing Cornish hedges:
guild-code-of-good-practice-2023-master.pdf
150kB
(4 pages)
The hedge importance test:
hit.pdf
2MB
(3 pages)
How old is that Cornish hedge?:
how-old.pdf
2MB
(13 pages)
Insects in Cornish hedges:
insects.pdf
7MB
(39 pages)
Hedges in the Cornish Landscape:
landscape.pdf
2MB
(19 pages)
Literature sources:
litsources.pdf
144kB
(5 pages)
Typical Cornish hedge detail:
m3ijqp29atn0oaty.pdf
484kB
(1 page)
Mediaeval hedges in Cornwall:
mediaeval.pdf
2MB
(19 pages)
Modern hedges in Cornwall:
modern.pdf
2MB
(19 pages)
Mosses, lichens, fungi and ferns in Cornish hedges:
mosses.pdf
6MB
(18 pages)
Post-mediaeval hedges in Cornwall:
post-med.pdf
3MB
(17 pages)
Prehistoric hedges in Cornwall:
prehistoric.pdf
2MB
(10 pages)
Repairing Cornish hedges and stone hedges:
repairing.pdf
6MB
1(8 pages)
Repairing turf hedges in Cornwall:
repairturf.pdf
146kB
(5 pages)
Risk assessment guidance for building and repairing Cornish hedges:
riskassess.pdf
104kB
(3 pages)
Roadside hedges and verges in Cornwall:
roadside.pdf
2MB
(22 pages)
Cornish stone stiles. How to build and repair them?:
stiles.pdf
3MB
(19 pages)
Trees on hedges in Cornwall:
trees.pdf
7MB
(31 pages)
Wildlife and the Cornish hedge:
wildlife.pdf
5MB
(28 pages)
Restoring biodiversity in Cornish hedges:
biorestoration.pdf
2MB
(11 pages)
Cornish hedges and the climate crisis:
climatecrisis.pdf
2MB
(7 pages)
How to look after a Cornish hedge:
lookafter.pdf
2MB
(14 pages)