Although relatively small, Lanreath punches well above its weight today, and has done so throughout history. Indeed, it boasts three former High Sheriffs of Cornwall, a magnificent Norman church with the best-painted rood screens in the county. Lanreath's pub, the famous Punch Bowl Inn, claims to be the first licensed public house in the land. Today, many say Lanreath is the envy of every other village in Cornwall for what it has achieved. It remains home to a great community with a healthy activist spirit, and was the subject of a highly acclaimed one-hour BBC documentary called Power to the People. The author lived in the village for seven happy years. Throughout his working life, he has written a huge number of film and radio scripts, and made films all over the world for international donor-funded programmes. The story takes the reader from the Bronze Age and Iron Age Celts, through to the Roman, Saxon, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Tudor, Stuart, Georgian, Victorian periods, and on to modern times. For anyone interested in Cornwall, resident, visitor, or connected through ancestry, they will find this book a riveting tale of history, romance, intrigue, crime and caper, and packed with the author's colour photographs.