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The parish church in Germoe is mostly of the 14th century and is built on the site of an earlier Norman church. The church has a chancel, nave, north aisle, south transept, and a three-stage battlemented tower of granite ashlar. There are three long tailed monkeys carved on the porch which are said
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after the wreck of a valuable Portuguese ship. Rumours of ghosts and devil-worship surround the castle. The ghost of John Milliton is said to haunt the castle. Legend says that he attempted to poison his wife, but she switched goblets with him and the Devil was all too happy to take them both to
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hell. Historical research has proven some of these stories to be false: no monks were murdered there (although one was assaulted by Henry Pengersick), the supposed
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to ward off evil. There is a Godolphin family pew in the north aisle. A small medieval building in the churchyard wall is known as St Germoe's Chair. The Anglican
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Penzance to Helston road runs along the southern border of the parish. Other settlements in the parish include
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to frighten people away. Additionally, Sir John Milliton died in 1570, and his wife in 1579.
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Anthony D. Hippisley Coxe, Haunted Britain, pg. 22, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York 1973
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in Cornwall) and the area was formerly an important source of tin and copper ore (see
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of its type preserved in Britain. John Milliton of Pengersick Castle became
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chapel was built at Balwest in 1829 for miners in the north of the parish.
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Historically, the largest landowners in the parish were the
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and Pengersick Castle was also improved around 1530 as a
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Germoe parish is bounded to the north, east and south by
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528 (United Kingdom Census 2011 including Balwest)
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List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel
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were located in another part of the castle, and the
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Index

Cornish
Germoe is located in Cornwall
Cornwall
OS grid reference
SW585294
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Cornwall
Ceremonial county
Cornwall
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
TR20
Dialling code
Police
Devon and Cornwall
Fire
Cornwall
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
St Ives
UK
England
Cornwall

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