Trees of Padstow – The Blackthorn
“Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak and Ash and Thorn.” Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906) […]
Category Archives: Historic Cornwall
Happy St Patrick’s Day to our Celtic Cousins
Hag stones
HAG STONE – SACRED, POWERFUL, MAGICALHag stones, also called holey stones, holed stone, fairy stones, Odin stones, spindle whorl or adder stones are stones with a naturally occurring hole through […]
Lerryn and the lost gardens at Trivoli Park
Lerryn (Cornish: Leryon) is a village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the River Lerryn (a tributary of the River Fowey) approximately three miles (5 km) southeast of Lostwithiel. […]
White Lady Waterfall – Lydford Gorge
Lydford gorge and the white lady falls I think when anybody visits an area they always like to see the highest, longest, shortest, deepest or oldest features that are on […]
Saints of Cornwall – St Mawgan
There is evidence of Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements, though the village history proper is considered to start from the arrival of the Welsh missionary St Mawgan (or Meugan) […]
Sirens of Tregudda Gorge
The Sirens of Tregudda Gorge In the spring of 1928 a young man called Cecil Morgan came to Cornwall to stay with his cousins at Hawker’s Cove near Padstow. The […]
The Legend of Brentor Church
The Legend of Brentor Church The giants were all dead and the witches had fled to Wales driven by the friends of Bowerman, but one evil genius still remained. The Devil […]
Poo with a view
Brown willy – Cornish, Bronn Ewhella
Brown Willy (possibly from Cornish Bronn Ewhella meaning “highest hill”. But it could also come from the Cornish Bronn Wennili meaning “hill of swallows” The last time I walked to […]
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