St Buryan

"ST. BURYAN, (or St. Burian), a parish in the hundred of Penwith, in the county of Cornwall, 5 miles to the S.W. of Penzance, which is the terminus of the West Cornwall railway. It is situated in a hilly and wild district, within 4 miles of the Land's End, and contains the village of Bolleit. The village of St. Burian is of great antiquity, and was the site of a collegiate church, founded and endowed soon after the commencement of the 10th century by King Athelstan, in honour of St. Burian. It had the privilege of sanctuary, and was afterwards made a deanery. No remains of the collegiate buildings exist. Granite is the prevailing rock in the district. Numerous remains of primitive stone circles exist in the neighbourhood, among which are the Merry Maidens, two stones called the Pipers, and the Boscawen-un, being a circle of 19 stones surrounding a central one. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter, of the annual value with St. Levan and Sennen, which together constitute the Deanery of St. Burian, of £1,004, in the patronage of the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall. The church is built of granite, and stands on a hill about 470 feet above the level of the sea, forming a conspicuous sea-mark. There is a national school.

"BOLLAIT, a village in the parish of St. Buryan, hundred of Penwith, in the county of Cornwall, 4 miles to the S.W. of Penzance. It is situated near the Land's End, and contains the Druidical stones called "the Pipers." One of them is 16, the other 21, feet in height. They are about 200 yards distant from each other."

"LEMORNA, a cove in the parish of St. Buryan, on the coast of Cornwall, 5 miles S.W. of Penzance. It is famed for violet axinite which is picked up here."

"MERRY MAIDENS, a Druid temple, in the parish of St. Buryan, county Cornwall, near St. Buryan. The circle is 25 feet in diameter, surrounded by 19 stones, each 4 feet high."