Golant
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Golant (Cornish: Golnans)[1] is a village in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the west bank of the River Fowey and in the civil parish of St Sampson.[2]
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Golant is about two miles (3 km) north of Fowey and seven miles (11 km) east of St Austell.[3]
Golant church is dedicated to St Sampson of Dol. The poet John Betjeman remarked that its pews were "extremely uncomfortable, recall the fidgets of Gus and Flora in Ravenshoe".[4] The church was mentioned in the book England’s Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins.[5]
The village is on the Saints' Way long-distance footpath.[6]