St. Keyne
Keyne
Reached by winding lanes from Liskeard, if you continue beyond St. Keyne you come to Duloe. There is not much to St. Keyne, on whose south-east side is the church of St. Kayna. It stands on a mound, raised well above the road, suggesting, as so often in Cornwall, a pre-Christian site. Opposite the church is the "Little Old School House", originally, to judge by its tallet steps, a small barn of sorts. South-east of the church is St. Keyne's Holy Well, which Pevsner describes as "the most famous of English holy wells". Just beyond that is the Well House Hotel. Surprisingly for a hotel with an AA 3 rosette restaurant it seems to have no web site though it may just be a wedding venue these days (2017) having been bought by a German company a few years ago.
Little Old School House, once a barn
St. Keyne Church stands on a mound
St. Keyne Holy Well
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