Lower Boscaswell Fogou

Nearest town:
Penzance (10km E)
OS reference:
SW377348
OS sheet:
203
Latitude:
50° 9' 16.09 N
Longitude:
5° 40' 21.23 W
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Images

Image of Lower Boscaswell Fogou by Moth

The entrance is so promising until you catch a glimpse of the barrier-wall

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Apr 2, 2004
Image of Lower Boscaswell Fogou by Moth

Jane gives some scale to the entrance as she stoops to discover the disappointing ‘barrier’ to entry

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Apr 2, 2004
Image of Lower Boscaswell Fogou by Moth

The ‘double’ entrance – ‘creep’ on right

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Apr 2, 2004

Articles

Lower Boscaswell Fogou

Z
zogarma Jun 20, 2004

This Fogou has existed in its present state for 50 years at least.
I believe the rest of it existed seawards.
It is known locally as Giants Hole.
It is now thought by some that the meadows landward maybe a type of courtyard house.
The NT has only owned this area for a few years however there’s plenty of time in the future for them to make a mess of it.

Lower Boscaswell Fogou

Jane
Jane Mar 14, 2004

Not entirely easy to find the entrance to this fogou faces seaward in the top edge of a field just off to the left of a track that exits the village at the north.

It was thrilling to find, but disappointing after Pendeen, for this fogou allows you in for the first six feet only before you meet a barrier. It’s been walled-up. Cheers National Trust! Fortunately, NT have not trashed the double entrances and despite the walling-up, it remains a delight to see a fogou lurking in the corner of a forgotten field.

Folklore

Lower Boscaswell Fogou
Fogou
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jun 29, 2017

It is a very common notion amongst the peasantry, that a just retribution overtakes those who wilfully destroy monuments, such as stone circles, crosses, wells, and the like. Mr Blight writes me – “While at Boscaswell, in St Just, a few weeks since, an old man told me that a person who altered an old Holy Well there, was drowned the next day in sight of his house, and that a person who carried away the stones of an ancient chapel, had his house burned down that very night.” We hope that the certainty of punishment will prevent any further spoilation.

From Popular Romances of the West of England, second series, collected and edited by Robert Hunt.

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