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 SALTASH— SENNEN this St. Stephen's Church. Memories come thick and fast to the visitor at Saltash, but the modern town is prouder of its feat of engineering than of any ancient glories. The Royal Albert Bridge may not be exactly a thing of beauty — some people think it a positive eyesore — but its strength and utility cannot be denied. Its total length is 2240 ft. ; it was opened by the Prince Consort in 1859. St. Samson's. (See Golant.) Snncreed (about 4 m. W. of Penzance), like St. Creed, Grampound, is probably a dedication of St. Credan's, the son of St. Illogan ; but W, C. Borlase thought St. Creed a fictitious per- sonality, and regarded the names as abstract dedications to the holy creed. We must always be slow to credit any assertion of churches being dedicated to abstractions. This church has been made familiar to the public by paintings of the Newlyn school; it is beautifully situated among embowering trees. Fragments of a fine old screen are preserved here, and there is an unusually good cross in the churchyard, 7 ft. high, bearing a lily and other emblems. In this parish is Chapel Euny, the holy well of St. Euny ; and a neighbouring " fogou " bears the name of Cairn Uny. Seaton River rises near Caradon, flows through Menheniot, and reaches the sea at Seaton, to the E. of Looe Bay. Seaton sands were formerly, says tradition, a favourite resort of witches. Senneii (9 m. W. of Penzance) is a small 229