Miscellaneous

Merlin’s Rock and the Mousehole
Natural Rock Feature

Mousehole, Cornwall

At the southern end of Mousehole (pronounced “Mouzel”) quay, rising from the water, is Merlin’s Rock.

Here Merlin is said to have prophesied:

There shall land on the Rock of Merlin
Those who shall burn Paul, Penzance and Newlyn.

In 1595 four Spanish galleys fulfilled this “prophesy.”