ENGLAND'S RIVIERA

EN

A TOPOGRAPHICAL AND ARCHÆOLOGICAL
DESCRIPTION OF LAND'S END, CORNWALL
AND ADJACENT SPOTS OF BEAUTY AND

INTEREST

BY

J. HARRIS STONE, M.A.(Cantab.)

F.L.S., F.C.S., BARRISTER-AT-LAW OF THE WESTERN CIRCUIT,
AUTHOR OF “ CONNEMARA," PICCADILLY BY THE SEA,"

LEIGHTON HOUSE,' ETC.

66

LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO. LTD.
BROADWAY HOUSE, 68-74 CARTER LANE, E.C.

1912

SBO

CONTENTS

PAGE

List of Illustrations

ix

CHAPTER

1

I. Land's End, Cornwall, and the adjacent spots of

beauty and interest

II. The Individuality of Counties and Cornwall in particular

III. Sennen Churchtown; some firsts and lasts

8

17

IV. Sennen Church ; the Parish Registers

24

V. Sennen Cove ; Whitesand Bay

30

VI. The Cornish Harvest of the Sea : Pilchards at Sennen

Cove

43

VII. Climate, Penzance, Sir Humphry Davy

54

VIII. Red Hair

69

76

89

98

108

IX. Quakers in the Land's End District of Cornwall

X. The Longships Lighthouse, Land's End

XI. The First and Last of England

XII. St. Buryan; epitaphs ; William Noye

XIII. St. Buryan's Neighbourhood, the “Merry Maidens,"

the “Two Fiddlers," Trewoofe, Lamorna, the

Logan Stone .

XIV. Crows-an-wra, the Beehive Huts, St. Euny's Well

XV. St. Just, Ballowal Cairn, Inverted Urns

XVI. The Church of St. Just, Old Amphitheatre, Miracle

Plays

XVII. Cape Cornwall, Botallack Mine

XVIII. Pendeen, Morvah, Chûn, Zennor

CHAPTER

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195

XIX. Wesleyanism in Cornwall

XX. The Lost Land of King Arthur, Lyonnesse, Atlantis 203

XXI. Madron, St. Madron's Well, Bleu Bridge, Gulval,

Ludgvan, Marazion

208

XXII. Romans in Cornwall

224

XXIII. Paul, Mousehole; Newlyn

229

XXIV. The Ancient Cornish Language ; Dolly Pentreath 238

XXV. Towednack; the Cuckoo Feast

244

XXVI. Cornish Humour of the Land's End District

249

XXVII. Sancreed and its Crosses ; Boscawen-Un

256

XXVIII. Sancreed as a centre for seeing Antiquities, Lower

Drift Cross, Ding Dong District, Mên-an-tol, Men

Scryfa, “Nine Maidens,” Four Parishes Boundary-

stone, Mulfra Quoit, Pendour Cove, Horse's Back,

Kenidjack, the “Nineteen Maidens”

271

XXIX. St. Ives, Artists, the Church, the Silver Ball, the

Bay of St. Ives

284

XXX. The Radium Mine of St. Ives

301

XXXI. Loving-cups and the famous Peace Cup of St. Ives 307

XXXII. The Power of Seven and the Man with Seven Wives 316

XXXIII. Lelant, Brunnion, Ding Dong Mine, Nancledrea,

Roger's Tower, Chysauster, Lanyon Quoit 321

XXXIV. Port Isaac, St. Minver, and Padstow

335

XXXV. Porth Curnow, Porth Chapel, St. Levan, Porth-

gwarra, Tol-pedn

342

XXXVI. From Helston to the Lizard by the Coast : Loe Pool,

Gunwalloe Church, Poljew, Mullyon Church,

Professor Blackie, Mullyon Cove

357

XXXVII. Mullyon Church and Cove; Cliff Climbing

372

XXXVIII. The Lizard-Landewednack; Lighthouse

379

XXXIX. Kynance Cove_Helston ; Furry Dance

390

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