community of Cornish speakers during the 19th century. These included John Davey Jnr., 1812–1891 and his father, as well as Anne Berryman (1766–1854), and John Mann (1834–1914). John Mann recalled in an interview that, when a child, he and several other children always conversed in Cornish while at play together. It is from John Davey that we know the Cranken Rhyme, probably the last recorded piece of traditional late Cornish verse. The mermaid of Zennor The legend of the mermaid of Zennor concerns a mermaid that visits St Senara's Church and entices local parish singer Mathey Trewella away. The legend was probably inspired by a 15th-century carved bench-end in the church that shows a mermaid. In its turn, the legend has inspired Vernon Watkins' poem "The Ballad of the Mermaid of Zennor", Sue Monk Kidd's novel The Mermaid Chair, Cornish poet Charles Causley's book The Merrymaid of Zennor, the song "Mermaid" by Cornish folk singer Brenda Wootton, the song "The Mermaid of Zennor" by English singer-songwriter Paul William Gibson, and Helen Dunmore's Ingo Chronicles. Helen Dunmore's 1993 novel Zennor in Darkness is set in and around the village in 1917 when D. H. Lawrence lived nearby. Zennor is also mentioned in the Ulysses Moore series of books, written by Pierdomenico Baccalario Amenities As well as a public house, the Tinner's Arms, next to it is a guesthouse About east of the village is the Zennor Quoit megalithic site. Carn Cottage, Zennor Carn Cottage is one of a number of abandoned buildings in Cornwall. However, it is claimed this cottage used to belong to the occultist Aleister Crowley in the 1930s. It is claimed that the death of Katherine Laird Cox on 23 May 1938 was connected with Crowley and the cottage. However this story – which includes the claim that Gerald Vaughan had gone mad – is disputed. However, as Antoni Diller has pointed out, whilst Gerald's wife Ellaline was known to suffer from hallucinations, there is no evidence that Gerald went mad. In fact he went on to become an editor of Freedom an anarchist newspaper based in London. Patrick Heron Patrick Heron lived in Cornwall until the age of nine and he returned in 1956 to live at "", overlooking the cliffs near Zennor. Many of the sharp-edged shapes in his artistic works are reminiscent of the aged Cornish coastline, while the rounded shapes recall the granite boulders