THE WEIR
In the Middle Ages the monks of Tywardreath used this point on the river to run leats into the town many years before Rashleigh. Perhaps, though, he may have increased the height and reinforced the weir raising the water level of what was otherwise a deep-cut water-way, and so enabled it to be diverted through a leat that provided fast-flowing water-power to a succession of water-wheels further down the Bodmin Road and into Trenance valley powering mills in the town.
The Baptistry and waterfall in 1810.
The image is exaggerated in order to enhance its picturesque features. The size of the waterfall is out of scale with the diminutive fisherman, himself a traditional romantic addition. Nonetheless, the engraving gives some impression of the locality before the building of the turnpike
DRUID'S CHAIR
This chair was also called "King Arthur’s Seat" in the time of Canon Hammond in 1897. It is hewn from a solid lump of granite and with an intriguing gash slicing through its back, looks like an appropriate accessory for Rashleigh’s hermitage. Its origins are unknown but there is evidence of similar stone chairs by other holy wells.
