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Roche

Roche is a village and a parish in the china clay area near St Austell.

It is named after the stunning outcrop of tourmaliinised granite which rises out of the landscape like a huge, jagged tooth. Its name comes from the Norman French word meaning rock.

The hermitage (chapel) dedicated to St Michael, standing upon the rock, was used in the 1970s, as a filming location for the third Omen film, 'The Final Conflict'.

It stands on a high ridge on the northern edge of St Austell Downs. There are a large number of springs, holy wells and other water features in the area.