St. Agnes folks are not alone in being chaffed about a cherry beam, a bear-hunt, hedging the cuckoo, etc. In  Sussex they tease Balcombe people by saying that they put dung round their church-spire  to make it grow as high as Cuckfield spire and that when they want to make a cart they make a waggon and saw it in two!

Cornubian and Redruth Times, 9 May 1884

Contributed by Malcolm Davison.

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See also: 1885: Balcombe villagers desperately try to grow their church spire as high as that of Cuckfield!