The Transactions of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society Volume 19 (2019) Contents: Introduction 1 Talks given at the Tavistock Meeting, October 2018 Locating Curgenven (Roger Bristow) 2 Mrs Curgenven of Curgenven (Becky Smith and Pat Tansell) 12 The Folklore of Bodmin (Katherine Stansfield) 19 Priests and Parsons in the Novels of Baring-Gould (Norman Wallwork) 28 Additional material: Winefred – A Story of the Chalk Cliffs (Roger Bristow) 49 The Undercliffs Reserve (Donald Campbell) 62 Notes on the contributors 66 The Transactions of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society The original talks from which the articles in this journal are drawn were given at the annual gathering of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society held at Tavistock, 5 to 7 October 2018 with the exception of ‘Winefred – A Story of the Chalk Cliffs’ and ‘The Undercliffs National Reserve’, which were presented at the 2005 meeting in Seaton and which have not been published previously. The copyright for the articles appearing in this publication rests with the original author Copyright © 2019 Published for SBGAS by Greenjack Publications, 59 Roberts Close, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 2RP Transactions Editor: Martin Graebe e-mail:
[email protected] Phone: 01285 651 104 This is the final issue of the SBGAS Transactions as the Society was wound up in March 2019. Introduction The last Annual Gathering of the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society was held in Tavistock in October 2018, and featured papers concerned with Baring- Gould’s novel Mrs Curgenven of Curgenven, and other relevant topics. Roger Bristow talked about the locations mentioned by Baring-Gould in Mrs Curgenven and the way in which Baring-Gould placed his characters in the landscape.