- Rame Head
: "See
Rame Head, Victoria for that place in Australia (named after Rame Head, Cornwall)."Rame Head is a coastal headland, southwest of the village of Rame in southeast
Cornwall ,United Kingdom .The site was used for a
hill fort in theIron Age .The headland has a prominent
chapel , dedicated to St Michale, accessible by a steep footpath. The chapel was first licenced for Mass in1397 . It is probably on the site of a much earlier,Celt ic, hermitage, Earl Ordulf, who was the owner of vast estates in theWest Country . Earl Ordulf, who was the uncle of King Ethelred, gave Rame toTavistock Abbey (which Ordulf had founded) in981 . It remains as an intact shell.Around the head, Dartmoor ponies are kept to graze. This area is also frequented by deer, sheep and cattle which can often be viewed from the sea.The headland is prominent to
sailors andfishermen leavingPlymouth throughPlymouth Sound . It is often the last piece of land they see leavingEngland , and the first they see when returning home; Rame Head thus appears in thesea shanty "Spanish Ladies ."Due its exceptionally high and panoramic vantage point, there is a volunteer
National Coastwatch Institution lookout on the top of the headland (next to the car park).ee also
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Rame peninsula
*Rame
*MakerExternal links
* [http://www.nci-ramehead.org.uk National Coastwatch Institution - Rame Head]
* [http://www.caradonwildlife.org/ Rame Head Wildlife]
* [http://www.rameheritage.co.uk Old Photographs of Rame Headland]
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