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The Bucket Of Blood
The Bucket of Blood is a public house in Phillack, Hayle, Cornwall, owned by St Austell Brewery and currently tenanted by Pete Hamiton and Nicola Reynolds. It is thought to be named after an incident where the landlord brought up a bucket of blood from the building's well. The resulting investigation revealed the corpse of a murdered Customs Officer which had been dropped there and the name has been recognised as one of the quirkiest in the country. The earliest parts of the building date from the late 13th century or early 14th century, as it was originally built to accommodate the construction of the neighbouring Phillack church, which was completed in the early 14th C. The pub was built from rubble with a slate roof. It was designated Grade II listed building, listed status on 14 January 1988. Building The earliest parts of the building date from the late 13th century or early 14th century. there are written records of the pub from the 1700's, but the building is known to much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillack
Phillack ( kw, Eglosheyl) is a village (and formerly a parish) in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about one mile (1.6 km) northeast of Hayle and half-a-mile (0.8 km) inland from St Ives Bay on Cornwall's Atlantic ocean coast.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' The village is separated from the sea by a range of high sand dunes known as The Towans. Phillack has been in the civil parish of Hayle since 1935; before that it was a separate parish in its own right. GENUKI website; Phillack. Retrieved June 2010 Phillack parish was originally in Redruth Registration District but the village now comes under Camborne-Redruth Registration District. There is some dispute over the origins of the name. In the 17th century, ''Phillack'' was believed to refer to the Irish Saint Felicitas who is said to have fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
