Guy English complains that St Cuby’s well is too easy to find but beware. It is very close to a very fast road on a rather nasty blind corner and there is nowhere safe either to park of walk nearby. A stumble step separates you from the traffic.

The well has its own little 1822 wellhouse which contains a small chamber with seat for two as an antechamber to a limpid pool of clean water.

Tradition has it that a stone basin, now in the church, once lived here and was taken by vandals in 1820. One story has it that the thief and oxen suffered the saint’s indignation. The bowl was eventually discovered elsewhere and now lives in the church up the road where it is used for baptisms, with water from the well, in preference to the (late C15?) font.

The lush vegetation in the photograph is in stark contrast to the illustration in The Saints of Cornwall (pub 2001) but this does at least show the small bench inside the arch.