Lamorna is a small fishing village on the
Land's End peninsula in
Cornwall. It is effectively a small congregation of houses clustered around a natural harbour. At the end of the
19th century it became popular as a subject amongst many of the painters of the
Newlyn School, including, particularly the artist
S J "Lamorna" Birch, who lived there in a small cottage.
It has a pub, "The Wink", whose name alludes to the other occupation of its inhabitants in days gone by, smuggling, "the wink" being the indication that contraband could be obtained. The pub is the subject of a novel by Martha Grimes[?], entitled "The Lamorna Wink".
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