Lanreath

But the picturesque village of Lanreath is determined not to go down without a fight.

Busy Newmania 2007

The village of Lanreath is on the brink of extinction: they've lost their post office, shop, pub, bus service, farms - and now their beloved primary school is under threat.

Busy Newmania 2007

And it happened that the good folk of Lanreath, a few miles away, were suffering severely from a wild spirit that frequented the high moor in their parish.

Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway Various

So the rector of Lanreath decided at last to appeal to Parson Dodge to come over and exorcise the wandering spirit.

Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway Various

There was the sooty-black coach, the dark, headless steeds, and, what thoroughly alarmed him, a grim cloaked figure urging his team at a gallop along a path in which lay the prostrate form of his friend the rector of Lanreath.

Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway Various

“A letter, may it please your reverence, from Mr Mills of Lanreath, ” said the countryman, handing him a letter.

The Spectral Coach of Blackadon 1921

“And how far, ” asked the clergyman, “is the moor from Lanreath?

The Spectral Coach of Blackadon 1921

On the night appointed the two clergymen left the Lanreath rectory on horseback, and reached the moor at eleven o’clock.

The Spectral Coach of Blackadon 1921

Just at this moment the parson’s handmaid announced that a person waited on him in the kitchen, —or the good clergyman would probably have detailed all those cases in history, general and biblical, with which his reading had acquainted him, not much, we fear to the edification and comfort of the sexton, who had to return to Lanreath, a long and dreary road, after nightfall.

The Spectral Coach of Blackadon 1921

The inhabitants of Lanreath, aroused from their beds by the tramp of hoofs and with difficulty persuaded that their visitors were not the

The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903