St Nectan's Glen, Tintagel, Cornwall - England

St Nectan's Glen has the most amazing and powerful waterfall and it's healing qualities are legendary.
The walk through woodland that you must take to reach the 60ft waterfall takes you alongside a stream with many places to stop and take in the calming beauty of the water.


Around 500 A.D. the good St Nectan built his small sanctuary beside the Trevillitt river,
just above the Waterfall and the Kieve (cornish for 'basin'), which bears his name.
Unquestionably, a suitable spot for a holy man seeking seclusion!

Tradition has it that behind the Chapel was a tower in which hung a silver bell which he rang, perhaps to warn sailors of submerged rocks on the treacherous cornish coast, or maybe to summon help from the Celtic monastery near Tintagel castle for vessels in distress (he would have been able to see both coast and castle from the top of his tower), or perhaps he rang it just to assure sailors that he was praying for their safety.
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