St.Agnes
St. Agnes - A place of contrasts that
compliment - from wooded valleys and deep dark tin mines,
to light airy seascapes that constantly change from a mirror
of pewter, through a thousand shades of blue ,to brilliant
aquamarine and crashing surf. An ancient, Celtic Landscape
laced with small fields, moorland and erotically shaped cliffs
and islands carved by the sea, with always the looming, yet
friendly, bulk of the Beacon in the background. Old legends
abound - the Giant Bolster, who rears his head every spring
in search of the lovely maid St. Agnes. The intriguing legend
of the Cuckoo, who villagers tried to prevent flying away
by building a high stone wall (the Giants Hedge). Thus St.
Agnes is known as "Cuckoo Land". Old tales of ghosts and
Cornish Knockers...
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