Viv Twornicki's 'Village Views' are always attractive and lively pieces and I regret that I feel obliged to challenge two items in her account of Morval.

County histories place the Coads (or Coods) arrival in Morval in the early 16th century, not the twelfth or thirteenth, as the result of marriage to a Glynn heiress.

Oliver Cromwell made only one visit to Cornwall, in 1646, to receive with Fairfax, the Royalist surrender at Tresillian Bridge, coming there via Launceston, St. Tudy and Wadebridge. Peter Gaunt's 'Cromwellian Gazetteer' (1987) gives no detail of his return journey, which could have been by Morval, although this seems an unlikely route.

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Grey Mists,

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