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» 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 the
Iron Age.
The headland has a prominent
chapel, dedicated to
St Michale, accessible by a steep footpath. The chapel was first licenced for
Mass in
1397. It is probably on the site of a much earlier,
Celtic,
hermitage, Earl Ordulf, who was the owner of vast estates in the
West Country. Earl Ordulf, who was the uncle of King
Ethelred, gave
Rame to
Tavistock Abbey (which Ordulf had founded) in
981. It remains as an in-tact 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 and
fishermen leaving
Plymouth through
Plymouth Sound. It is often the last piece of land they see leaving
England, and the first they see when returning home; Rame Head thus appears in the
sea shanty "
Spanish Ladies."
Due its exceptionally high and panoramic vantage point, there's a volunteer
National Coastwatch Institution lookout on the top of the headland (next to the car park).
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