SOUTH PETHERWIN— POLPERRO The lordship of the whole Hundred of Penwith seems to have attached to the manor of Con- arton. Phillack Church is perilously surrounded with sand-dunes, only kept in check by the growth of reed grass. It was almost entirely rebuilt in 1857, but some relics of Norm, work are preserved ; and in the churchyard is a good cross. Phillcigh (4 J m. N. of St. Mawes) is one of the numerous churches that Mr. W. C. Borlase ascribes to St. Teilo, sometimes called Feliaus. It was formerly named Eglosros, or "church on the heath," being one of the Rose- land parishes. Tolverne, now in the Boscawens, was formerly a seat of the Arundells. Pol per ro (3^ m. W. of West Looe), once the haunt of smugglers and now of painters, is one of the loveliest spots in South Cornwall. Even now, though rapidly rising into favour, it retains much of its old-world simplicity ; it would be difficult, indeed, for it to expand much, crushed as it is between noble masses of headland, in a hollow that is like a cradle. To quote the words of T. Quiller-Couch (not the familiar " Q ") : " The bold bluff hills resting by the sea-line on a margin of craggy transition-slate, alike attractive to the artist and interesting to the geologist, have here, seemingly, suffered some disruption, and in the fissure is dropped the village, its houses resting on ledges in the hills, or skirting the inlet of the sea which forms its harbour ". It was Jonathan Couch, the good old country doctor, who brought the 217
