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Dist:0.1km<br/>From Boscastle this road heads out along the coast towards Tintagel.
©Lewis Clarke
Dist:0.2km<br/>Boscastle coast guard station in the background.
©David Ashcroft
Dist:0.3km<br/>A simple wheel-head cross of granite alongside the driveway leading to the church.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>The simple chancel.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking along the nave.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>The main church for Boscastle with the upper village spread out beyond.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>View towards the west end from the pulpit.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>The closest church to Boscastle and situated on a hilltop to the west of the village.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.4km<br/>From the B3266 looking down towards the village of Boscastle on top of the hill.
©Lewis Clarke
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©David Ashcroft
Dist:0.4km<br/>Quite a large churchyard up on a windy hill.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>A Norman foundation, as demonstrated by Norman fabric in the south aisle and transept. The west tower was built in 1750. (Information from Pevsner) St Symphorian was a French martyr, who was beheaded in AD282 for protesting against the worship of the Goddess Cybele. (Information from http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/Boscastle..htm)
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>These strips, separated by grassy baulks, known as stitches and are a surviving example of a Celtic rather than Anglo-Saxon open field system.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Whilst the stitches (strips) to the west of track across the open field were arable at the time of this visit (early May 2009), on the east side they are covered in grass. This illustrates the system whereby the stitches were cultivated by their owners during the Summer, but grazed in common during the winter. This grazing adds manure to the soil to keep it fertile.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>At the top left of the image there is a glimpse of the strips, called stitches, that make up the open field. They are separated by grassy banks. The track gives access to the far side of the field, and is a permissive path. It is possible that such tracks in medieval times sometimes became roads leading to the next village.
©Humphrey Bolton

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