Cheesewring

The Cheesewring is a granite tor on Stowe's Hill in the parish of Linkinhorne on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, about a mile northwest of the village of Minions and four miles north of Liskeard. It consists of granite slabs naturally stacked by weathering into seven thick blocks, standing 32 feet tall in an unusual top-heavy arrangement, with the heaviest and largest slabs at the top and the lightest and smallest at the bottom; the upper rocks overhang the lower ones significantly, and the stack stands with no lateral support of any kind. Its name comes from its resemblance to a stack of cheeses in a traditional cider press. In the late 1800s the formation was threatened by quarrying at the adjacent Cheesewring Quarry, which supplied granite cladding for London's Tower Bridge, and it was saved from demolition by local activists. This entity documents the Cheesewring specifically as a geological formation, a granite tor of stacked slabs shaped by weathering on Bodmin Moor.