Flory Island
The island on Whipsiderry beach is known as Flory Island or Black Humphrey Rock. Books from the 19th and early 20th Century record tales of a wrecker called Black Humphrey who was said to live in the old mine-workings. So much of the mine workings on the beach and the island have since been eroded that it's hard to imagine how it would have looked hundreds of years ago. A verse is recorded about Black Humphrey based on ships being wrecked by the westerly gales:
When the wind is from the west Pray for me among the rest; When the wind is from the east I’ll to church as soon as Priest;
The alternative name Flory is thought to be a corruption of Phillory, but the significance of the name has been lost.
On walks
- Watergate Bay to Newquay (via bus) (4 mile walk)
- (0 mile walk)
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