Perran-in-the-Sands: The Two Churches the Dunes Nearly Swallowed
The lost church on Perran Sands turns out to be two buried religious sites—and a centuries-long argument with a moving landscape.
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Crantock’s Lost Chapel: St Ambrusca, the College and the Old Churchyard
A ruined chapel turns up in a property record. Follow it into a village of working clergy, hopeful visitors, buried neighbours and buildings that had to be repaired.
The Holy Well the Cliff Buried: What Was Inside Holywell Cave Before the 2026 Collapse
The August 2026 rockfall hid Holywell’s cave. Its pools, healing traditions and rival inland well tell a history which survives the loss of access.
Seven Churches Under the Sand? The Crantock Story That Keeps Changing
Seven churches, seven churchyards and a real religious community: how much of Crantock’s most persistent story can we put back on the ground?
St Piran: The Saint Who Floated to Cornwall — and the History Beneath the Legend
A floating millstone is an excellent entrance. The harder question is how much we can recover of the man behind Cornwall’s most enduring saint story.
Four Saints at the Crossroads: The Lost Chapel That Linked Piran, Carantoc and Cubert
A farmer’s wife, a sacred stone and four communities meeting inland from the coast: the lost chapel with an unusually practical afterlife.
I Picked the Cursed Leaf at St Newlyn East — and I’m Still Here
A childhood warning about St Newlyn East’s fig tree leads into a saint’s staff, newspaper scepticism and the surprisingly difficult question of how a local curse becomes ancient.