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A rotten borough -- Without a church or chapel-of-ease -- History of / the borough -- Contest between the Earl of Darlington and Lord / Yarmouth -- Brown Willy and Rough Tor -- Helborough -- S. / Itha -- Slaughter Bridge -- King Arthur -- The reason for the / creation of the Arthur myth -- Geoffrey of Monmouth -- The truth / about King Arthur -- The story of his birth -- Damelioc and / Tintagel -- How it is that he appears in so many places -- King / Arthur's Hall -- The remains of Tintagel -- The Cornish / chough -- Crowdy Marsh -- Brown Willy and the beehive cottages on / it -- Fernworthy -- Lord Camelford -- His story -- Penvose -- S. / Tudy -- Slate monuments -- Basil -- S. Kew -- The Carminows -- Helland -- A / telegram -- Battle.
That this little town of a single street should have been a borough and have returned two members to Parliament is a surprise. It is a further surprise to find that it is a town without a church, and that no rector of Lanteglos, two miles distant, should have deemed it a scandal to leave it without even a chapel-of-ease is the greatest surprise of all.