Pont is a hamlet in
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
, England. Pont is about half a km north of
Lanteglos-by-Fowey
Lanteglos (Old kw, Nant Eglos, meaning ''church valley'') is a coastal civil parish in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the east side of the tidal estuary of the River Fowey which separates it from the town and civil parish of ...
churchtown and east of
Pont Pill.
It is thought that Pont began as a settlement when the parish's first Celtic saint,
St Wyllow, came and settled in a cave by the head of Pont around 596.
References
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