Lelant

Lelant ( stress on the last syllable, cornish: Lalant ) is a village in the former Penwith District of Cornwall in England at the mouth of the River Hayle and belongs to the municipality of the three miles away, St Ives. The train station of Lelant is the starting point for park-and -ride to St Ives. The ride with one of the half-hourly trains running is very scenic.

First mentioned in writing this site was in 1170 as Lananta. The name is derived from the Cornish words lann and the Holy St. Anta, which means place of the Church of the Holy Anta. In the Middle Ages Lelant had a harbor at the mouth, but soon petered out. Today, the mouth of the Hayle is a salt marsh, and can only be driven from light vessels at high tide.

In the sand dunes in front of the river mouth is the Gothic church of St Uny, named after the Irish missionary Uny from the 6th century, built in the 15th century. Because she was constantly delivered the danger of being overwhelmed by the dunes, was laid to extensive plantings of beach grass grass to consolidate the sand dunes. Immediately adjacent to the church is located in the dunes bordering the golf course at the West Cornwall Golf Club, the beautiful views from the Carbis Bay St Ives over the Bay to Godrevy Point offers.

The writer Rosamunde Pilcher was born in 1924 in Lelant and baptized in St Uny.

Pictures

Cemetery of St Uny

Carbis Bay with Lelant

Mouth of the Hayle

Godrevy Lighthouse Point