Morwenstow is a remote parish on Cornwall’s rugged north coast, best known for its dramatic cliffs and wild, windswept scenery. Its most famous figure is the eccentric 19th-century vicar Robert Stephen Hawker, poet and antiquarian, who built the tiny clifftop church of St Morwenna and St John and founded the harvest festival tradition. The coastline here is marked by tales of shipwrecks, with Hawker himself often burying drowned sailors in the churchyard. Isolated and atmospheric, Morwenstow captures the wilder, more haunting side of Cornwall’s coast.