Cornwall's Fairy Places
Fairies Well, Tregenna, Blisland
Caer Brane
This is an iron age hill fort where fairies live
Fairy Well, Carbis Bay
SW 536387
This was a a wishing well where people made wishes by dropping in crooked pins
Castle - an - Dinas
This is a hillfort where fairies hold their fairs
Towan, Lelant Church
SW 548378
Fairies have often been seen dancing here.
Once a man walked past the church on a moonlit night and saw lights in the church and heard the church bell tolling. He looked in at the window and saw a group of tiny people holding a funeral possession of a tiny female corpse with golden hair who was covered in white flowers. The little men dug a hole and placed the body into it and then they all gathered around it crying that the fairy queen was dead. The watching human man cried out and as he did the lights went out. He felt the fairies fly past him as they did so they prodded him with sharp objects.
The place where the fairy queen was buried is the possible burial site of a saint.
St Nuns Well, Pelynt
Also known as: St. Ninnie's Well, Piskey Well
SW 224564
An elf lived in this well, he would bestow good fortune on those who threw in crooked pins and ill-fortune on those who desecrated the site
Mel-An-Tol, Penzance
Here lies what is believed to be the remains of a burial chamber. One of the stones is round with a circular hole through it. It was believed that changelings would be turned back into human babies if they were passed through the middle. There is also a guardian fairy of the site.
Logon Stone, Porthcurno
SW 396220
Sennen Cove
Fairies and mermaids have often been see here.
Trencrom Hill, St Ives
SW 519362
Spriggans guard a crock of gold
The Gump, St Just
SW 397335
Many people have seen the fairies here dance and been given gifts by them.
Trizidder Lane, St Levan
Fairies are said to hold fairs at the end of this lane.