the wide Tamar River
grim weather approaching
high tide at Ernesettle
high tide at Warren Point
Tamar reflection
reflections of Warleigh
clouds over Tamerton Lake
the harbour at Ernesettle
low tide at Tamerton Creek
high tide at Ernesettle
train on Black Bridge
under the Black Bridge
train at Black Bridge
Black Bridge, Ernesettle
Black Bridge, Tamerton Creek
boats at Tamerton Lake
bluebells in Budshead Wood
spring at Tamerton Creek
view from school field
view from Ernesettle School
co-op milk float
Bull & Bush at Ernesettle
St Aidan's Church, Ernesettle
Ernesettle Green
mist over the Tamar
aerial view of Ernesettle in 1984
1984 aerial view of Ernesettle
Ernesettle and the Tamar Valley
St Budeaux Church
St Budeaux Parish Church
view from Agaton field
Agaton field in spring
half-house council flats
spring flora in Budshead Wood
footpath under the railway
bluebells by the Tamar
sundown at Ernesettle Creek
sunset at Tamerton Creek
sunset from a window
Saltash from Agaton Fort
view from Agaton Fort
under Black Bridge
fishing at Warren Point
Tamar shoreline
evening at Warren Point
Warleigh Point
path beneath Black Bridge
evening tide
low tide at the harbour
entrance to Tamerton Creek
Tamar shore
sunset over Cornwall
view from Higher St Budeaux
St Budeaux churchyard
St Budeaux Church, Plymouth
Agaton Fort
Ernesettle and River Tamar
path below the Agaton Fort
distant Dartmoor
path through Budshead Wood
green is for trees
old mill stone
site of the old Budshead Manor
song of the blue Tamar
bridge at Tamerton Creek
swans in the harbour
creek in the evening sun
September evening up the creek
summer dawn of long ago
Budshead and Tamerton Creek
autumn in the creek
beachcomber
chimney on an autumn morning
view down Tamerton Creek
autumn in Ernesettle
Bonfire Night bonfire
Budshead Creek
Visitors to Ernesettle
Bull & Bush pub sign
Bonfire Night
Warren Point
Edward goes to Ernesettle
Pet's tour of Ernesettle (part 2)
Pet's tour of Ernesettle (part 1)
Hanging Johnny
autumn hedge
March view
birch tree view
dog in the snow
Trixie on the beach
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Early in the fifth century, after the Romans had left Britain, the country was rapidly overrun by the invading armies of Jutes, Angles and Saxons, and the Celtic people were compelled to flee westwards taking refuge in Devon, Cornwall, and Wales. The invading hordes largely wiped out the Christian Church in the areas that they conquered, and Thor and Wodin usurped the place of Christ. But in the West the Church struggled on, strengthened by links with the Church and its leaders in Brittany and other parts of Gaul. One of these leaders was the missionary-minded Bishop, Budoc of Dol.
Budoc, grandson of the king of Brest, spent some of his childhood years in exile with his mother in Cornwall. On returning to Brittany the young lad was baptised by the Abbot of a nearby monastery and later became a monk himself. The details of his life are shrouded in legend, but we know that he was Bishop of Dol for twenty years. He died at the age of eighty-three in the year a.d.500 and is buried in the Cathedral at Dol.
About a.d.480, over a hundred years before St. Augustine built his first Church at Canterbury, a band of missionary monks sent out by Bishop Budoc crossed the Channel in an open boat from Brittany and sailed up the river Tamar landing somewhere in the shelter of the Ernesettle Creek. There they formed a settlement and built a little wattle church. It was to this settlement and to other similar ones that the Bishop himself would have come from time to time to make his pastoral visits and to encourage those whom he had sent out to preach and teach.
The name Budokshed, which in the Middle Ages was the surname of the family occupying the manor house in this area, is probably a corruption of Budok's hide, "hide" meaning a piece of land. Thus the manor of Budokshed is the manor on Budok's piece of land. If this is the true derivation of the name then it would seem that a piece of land down by the Tamar was regarded as belonging to Budok, and it was on this piece of land that the early churches were built.
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