Opposition to hotel construction above Fistral involved established local uses of the headland, including grazing and drying fishing nets.
Construction of the Headland Hotel above Fistral met violent opposition in 1897. Historian Bernard Deacon connects the dispute with customary grazing and fishermen’s use of the land to dry nets.
The episode exposes a conflict between a proposed visitor attraction and existing local uses. It should not be reduced to residents irrationally opposing improvement.
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