St. Neot Church Flower Festival 2017
Flower Festival 2017
We are very fond of St. Neot village and especially of its church with its superb stained glass. So when we learned that there was to be a flower festival in the church at the end of August 2017 we jumped at the chance of going. There was a small charge (for charity) to enter the church but it was well worth it for the superb and imaginative arrangements, including a circular flower carpet. Refreshments included some surprisingly good Cornish Pasties. We walked round the rest of the village, too, including what most people will have missed, the now well-established Comumity Garden in the valley below the village. The statue of St. Neot is there, with a fawn and a fish, his symbols.
Colourful phone box
St. Neot Statue
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