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About St Keverne
St Keverne is the largest village in the Helford area and somewhat unusual (for Cornwall) in that it is clustered around a central square. This attractive square contains a number of shops, 2 pubs (the White Hart and the Three Tuns), a handful of cottages and is overlooked by the church of St Akeveranus. The 15th century church is fairly large, but in typical Cornish manner, squat. It does haowever have a fairly distincitve tower with an octagonal spire. It is thought the spire was added to make the church an even more prominent daymark for mariners and to warn of the treacherous Manacles Reef just over a mile off shore. The name Manacles was derived from the old Cornish Maen Eglos meaning "Church Rocks". The Manacles reef…...
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