Lanteglos (Old Cornish: Nant Eglos, meaning church valley) is a coastal civil parish in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
[2] The South West Coast Path runs along the southern coasts of the parish and much of the southern part of the parish lies in the Polruan to Polperro Site of Special Scientific Interest managed by the National Trust.
An isolation hospital for sailors with Yellow Fever was built further down the pill toward Polruan.
The parish church, dedicated to St Wyllow, was built in the 14th century and refashioned in the 15th.
The 16th century benchends and panels from family pews have been preserved in the Victorian restoration by E. H.
One is a tall Gothic lantern cross which was found buried in a trench next to the church in 1838.
[13] The historic estate of Hall, is the ancient seat of the Mohun family (a junior branch of Mohun of Dunster Castle in Somerset, feudal barons of Dunster), also seated at Boconnoc, which branch was one of the four co-heirs of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1527–1556) the last of the mediaeval Courtenay Earls of Devon.