A Book of Cornwall

Launceston a borrowed name--Celtic system of separation between town of the castle and town of the church--A saint's curse--Old name Dunheved--Castle--Church--Sir Henry Trecarre...

Mr. Austin Treffry--The sands--Cliff-castles--Castel-an-Dinas--The Gannel--S. Carantock--Newlyn--Perranzabuloe--Church of S. Piran--History--Roche--S. Denis--Columb Major and Mi...

A saint or squab pie--The saints belong to five classes--I. The members of the royal Dumnonian family--II. Irish-Welsh colonists--The invasion of Brecknock--Brychan--The invasio...

The Irish settlers in Penwith--Difference between Irish and Cornish languages--The Irish saints of Penwith--Other saints--Penzance--S. Ives--Restored brass--Wreck of Algerine pi...

Penzance, the Holy Headland--Madron--A disciple of S. Piran--Madron Well--The Feast--Climate--The Irish Colonisation--Penwith--S. Breage--Tregonning Hill--Pencaer--Movements of...

A rotten borough--Without a church or chapel-of-ease--History of the borough--Contest between the Earl of Darlington and Lord Yarmouth--Brown Willy and Rough Tor--Helborough--S....

The other day I saw an old farmhouse in process of demolition in the parish of Altarnon, on the edge of the Bodmin moors. The great hall chimney was of unusual bulk, bulky as su...

Meneage--The meaning of Lizard--The character of the district--Helston--The Furry Day--Pixy pots--Loe Pool--Tennyson--Serpentine--The Cornish heath--The Strapwort--Other plants-...

A town with a past--The principality of Gallewick--A royal residence--The Boy and the Mantle--Caradock and Tegau--Arthur and Guenever--Southill--S. Samson--Callington Church--Th...

An ugly place--Its charm in the air--Stratton--The battle of Stamford Hill--Churches--Norman remains--Frescoes at Poughill--Pancras Week--Bench-ends--Tonnacombe--Marhayes--Old S...

_Armorel of Lyoness_--A refuge for the Celtic saints--Lighthouses--The name of Scilly--Olaf Trygvason at Scilly--Mr. Augustus Smith--The flower trade--Flowers not allowed to blo...

East and West Looe, separated by a tidal stream, the Looe (the same as Liffey from Welsh _llifo_ to flow, _llif_ a flood[16]), and united by a long bridge, at one time returned...

The granite eruptions in Devon and Cornwall--_Elvans_--_Lodes_--Tin passing into copper--Stream-tin--Story of S. Piran and S. Chigwidden--Dartmoor stream-tin--Joseph of Arimathe...

Truro--The cathedral--Probus tower--S. Kea--Polgerran--King Geraint--His tomb--S. Just--Mylor--Falmouth a modern town--How it sprang up--The Killigrews--Arewenack--A station for...

Derivation of the name Fowey--The Fowey river--Lostwithiel--A rotten borough--Old Stannary Court--S. Winnow--His Settlement in Brittany--Beating the bounds--Golant--S. Samson--D...

Old Town Hall demolished--Nicholas Tyack--Borough of Esh--Charters--Albert Bridge--Harbour dues--Contested elections--Continued contests--Situation of Saltash--Old houses--The P...

A town that has grown up about a monastery. The name is a contraction of Bod-minachau, "the habitation of monks"; and it owes its origin to S. Petrock. Petrock is Peter or Pedr,...

S. Patrick in Ireland--A pagan holy well--S. Samson--Celtic saints very particular about the water they drank--S. Piran and S. Germoe--S. Erth and the goose-eggs--S. Sithney and...

The ancient camps--Their kinds--1. Rectangular, Roman--2. The Saxon burh--3. The Celtic circular or oval camp--The _lis_ and the _dun_--4. Stone fortresses--Heroic legends in Ir...

Abundance of crosses--The menhîr--Crosses marked the limits of a Llan--Crosses marked places for public prayer--Instance of a Cornish Dissenter--Churches anciently few and far b...