Giant
Gogmagog's Leap
Corineus threw, and the giant fell.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Grassy clifftop promenade above the Sound
- Legend from
- Geoffrey of Monmouth / Rous (1480s)
- Tone
- Heroic
A giant was thrown off this cliff, and his picture was cut into the grass.
Geoffrey of Monmouth told how the Trojan Corineus wrestled the giant Gogmagog and threw him off a cliff. Plymouth claimed the spot. Clark's 2016 paper quotes John Rous in the 1480s describing two giant figures cut in turf beside 'the leap', and the town accounts paying in 1494–5 for renewing 'the picture of Gogmagog upon the Hoe'. Wikipedia says the figures lasted until the early 17th century.