Cubert Common

Cubert Common is the open grassland behind the coast between Holywell and Porth Joke. It is a different place from Cubert village: the shared name connects them, but following a village pin will not put you on the common.

Grazing helps maintain this landscape, alongside the exposed coastal conditions. Archaeology adds a much longer human story. Burial monuments and finds in the surrounding Kelseys show that people used this ground thousands of years before nineteenth-century mining reshaped neighbouring valleys.

The common helps connect stories that can otherwise seem unrelated: prehistoric occupation, holy places, farmland and the route to the beach. It also gives a reader a useful modern reference point for remains that are no longer obvious.

Use the National Trust’s mapped walk for the current approach and paths. A broad landscape such as this is better represented by a clear area and named walking entrance than by pretending one coordinate describes every archaeological feature within it.