Wyllow

Saint Wyllow (Vylloc) was a hermit and martyr of Cornwall, whose existence was reported by William of Worcester. He is said to have been born in Ireland and to have worked in Cornwall, by all appearances in the sixth century. He was beheaded by "Melyn's kinfolk" in the parish of Lanteglos near Fowey and, according to legend, carried his head half a mile to the bridge that bears his name, where a church was later built in his honour. The fifteenth-⁠century Church of Saint Wyllow at Lanteglos-⁠by-⁠Fowey is his commemoration today. Nicholas Roscarrock gives his feast as 3 June.