Hensbarrow Beacon

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Hensbarrow Beacon is a hill in Cornwall. The natural summit is 312m high and is marked by a trig point, and can be reached by a short walk from the road to the west. However, the summit is overtopped by several large spoil heaps from the nearby china clay workings, the highest of which rises to 355m, therefore creating an 'artificial' summit 43m higher than the natural one.

Geographically, the hill is the highest point of the St Austell Downs, a large region of downland to the north-west of St Austell. The large degree of separation between it and Bodmin Moor to the north-east gives it enough relative height to make it a Marilyn.