"Hedge," to any one from the Home Counties, indicates a boundary formed by growing bushes. In Cornwall it is often either a rough stone or earthen bank.
Above Lerrin Creek is St. Winnow, a fine old church standing by the waterside. St. Winnoe is an obscure saint. He was son of Gildas, the pessimist historian of the woes of Britain at the coming of the Saxons. There is some good old stained glass in St. Winnow church, and an inscribed font (inscription not decipherable).
ST. WINNOW.
A curious anagram-epitaph on one William Sawle, who died in 1651, may be seen here. It has been restored of late years by one of his collateral descendants:
"William Sawle, Annagr. I was ill; am wel.
When I was sick, most men did deeme me ill.
If I had liv'd I should have beene soe still.
Prais'd be the Lord, that in the Heavn's doth dwell,