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Places to stay in St Keverne
St Keverne is the largest village in the Helford area and somewhat unusual (for Cornwall) in that it is clustered around a central square. This attractive square contains a number of shops, 2 pubs (the White Hart and the Three Tuns), a handful of cottages and is overlooked by the church. The Manacles reef consists of a square mile of barely submereged rock and over the years it has claimed a staggering amount of ships with some saying as many as three thousand ships and countless hundreds of lives lost. A quick look around St Keverne churchyard is tesiment to this loss of life with over 400 victims buried there. Grave stones and memorials exist to ships such as the John, the Bay of Panama, the Primrose and the Dispatch which were both wrecked on the same night with a loss of over 250 lives, and perhaps the most well known, the Mohegan. The liner SS Mohegan struck the reef on 14th October 1898 with the loss of 106 lives, the captain's headless body was washed ashore 3 months later. A number of these were buried together in the church graveyard where a simple memorial stands. A memorial stained glass window was also donated to the church by the Atlantic Transport Company.
