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FOOTPRINTS OF FORMER MEN IN FAR CORNWALL
MORWENSTOW[1]
THERE cannot be a scene more graphic in itself, or more illustrative in its history of the gradual growth and striking development of the Church in Celtic and Western England, than the parish of St. Morwenna. It occupies the upper and northern nook of the county of Cornwall; shut in and bounded on the one hand by the Severn Sea, and on the other by the offspring of its own bosom, the Tamar River, which gushes, with its sister stream the Torridge, from a rushy knoll on the eastern wilds of Morwenstow.[2]
- ↑ The foundations of this article first appeared in Mr. Blight's "Ancient Cornish Crosses," Penzance, 1850; in an article entitled "A Cornish Churchyard," in Chambers's Journal, 1852; also, as the "Legend of Morwenstow," in Willis's Current Notes, 1856; and in its present extended form, in "Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall," 1870, embodying the author's latest corrections and impressions.
- ↑ Woolley Moor.
