Dr. Tony Stebbing, who helped me with very early research, described that “Cornwall is like the bow of a ship. This part of Britain is heading south due to climate change”. He and Sarah Myles of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust both said that this part of Britain was an important area for people to map change. Loe Pool was chosen as the first area for theirwork to map because of its positioning and watery habitat. It lies very close to the most southerly point of Britain. In addition, as William Howarth points out, wetland areas have become important places to examine because they help us to see how place functions, and help us to see new ways in which to think about a place (2001: 65). ‘In their wildness, wetlands dispossess readers of old codes and lead towards a new syntax, where phrase may begin to reassemble’ (ibid).

Here’s a meeting I had with Sarah about some of the GIS data held there

Get Howarth’s brilliant wetland essay if you haven’t read it (2001) ‘Reading the Wetlands’ in Adams, C., Hoelscher, S. and Till, K. (eds) Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, p65.

The brilliant eco-exhibitionist Matt Groshek pointed me towards this book. Later, I will give away more about Matt.

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