In 1758 the Universal Magazine published an account from William Borlase which related the ‘manners of the inhabitants of Cornwall’. Among several far-fetched stories it included the following as an example of the strength of Cornish people … A Cornish wain On Tuesday March 22,1757, John Chilew [normally spelt Chellew] of the parish of Ludgvan, … Continue reading An eighteenth-century Cornish strongman →