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Fall Asleep with Frank — Stones, Earth and Grass: A Gentle History of the Cornish Hedge

Fall Asleep with Frank — Stones, Earth and Grass: A Gentle History of the Cornish Hedge

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Tonight, Frank takes you to the very edge of England, where Cornwall's ancient fields are held in place by something older and more permanent than most people realise. The Cornish hedge is not a garden border or a clipped line of privet — it is a double-walled structure of carefully chosen stone, packed with subsoil, crowned with a living strip of turf, and colonised over centuries by gorse, ferns, mosses, and wildflowers.

In this first episode, Frank traces the full story of these remarkable structures: how they are built, stone by stone, at the measured pace of one metre per day; why their gentle taper makes them stable across centuries; and how the living plants rooted into their crowns are the very reason they are called hedges at all.

You will learn that some of these hedges were first built during the Neolithic period — four to six thousand years ago — by farmers enclosing small plots of Cornish earth. And that today, around thirty thousand miles of them still cross the county, following contours laid down by people long gone, carrying within their stones a compressed and readable history of place.

Frank reads slowly, calmly, and without urgency — the way a good sleep story should be told. If you are looking for a sleep podcast, a bedtime story for adults, or simply something calm and gentle to ease you toward rest, this is a quiet place to arrive. A calming episode to help you relax and fall asleep.

This episode includes AI-generated content.
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