There and Back

Just two or three days left on this amazing coast. So onto Mowenstow beach and then the Church of St Morwenna and St John the Baptist. But first the beach. One of my abiding memories of the beach here, is the waterfall over the cliff edge onto the beach. The first image is from the top of the cliff, and then from beach level. Then a couple of images of general beach views - left and right. There are many rocks on the beach here and it is interesting to se the wave breaking around them as it receds. The church of St Morwenna and St John The Baptist Having not heard of St Morwenna, I looked in the guide book and also online. Online , the story is: Morwenna first appears in a 12th-century life of Saint Nectan that lists her alongside Endelient, Mabyn and Menfre (among many others) as a daughter of the Welsh king Brychan. She was trained in Ireland before crossing over to Cornwall. Morwenna made her home in a little hermitage at Hennacliff (the Raven's Crag), afterwards called Morwenst...