Roche, Cornwall, England
Roche Rocks
Roche Rocks
Roche Rocks (pictured above) are home to a hermit’s cell and St. Michael’s Chapel that dates back to 1409. Jan Tregeagle, the Cornish Bluebeard, haunts the chapel. Tregeagle was a magistrate, and was known for being particularly harsh; darker stories circulated as well, that he had murdered his wife or made a pact with the Devil. As a lawyer he was a peculiarly nefarious agent, and very hard upon the tenants.
In death, he is faced with an impossible set of tasks that include making a truss of sand with a sand rope, and using a limpet shell to empty Dozmary Pool. His ghost also has to contend with being constantly chased by the Devil!
For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe.
St. Gundred’s Well
This well is located near to the station. It is said that girls can throw in pins or pebbles before sunrise on either Maundy Thursday or the Thursday following it, and the bubbles will show their fortune.
For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe.
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Roche (pronounced Roach, Cornish: Tregarrek, meaning homestead of the rock) is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, England.
The village gets its name from a granite outcrop east of the village. Roche is the Norman-French word for Rock.
Pictured left is a view of Roche Rocks courtesy of Mike Hancock. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
