page_title: St Buryan
section_title: Literature, cinema and music
hierarchical_section_title: St Buryan / Culture / Literature, cinema and music
caption_attribution_description: English: This image is of the comedian Jethro, outside the stage door of The Little Theatre in Retford, Nottinghamshire, after his show there on 29th October 2008.
context_page_description: St Buryan is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
  The village of St Buryan is situated approximately 5 miles west of Penzance along the B3283 towards Land's End. Three further minor roads also meet at St Buryan, two link the village with the B3315 towards Lamorna, and the third rejoins the A30 at Crows-an-Wra.
  St Buryan parish encompasses the villages of St. Buryan, Lamorna, and Crows-an-Wra and shares boundaries with the parishes of Sancreed and St Just to the north, Sennen and St Levan to the west, with Paul to the east and by the sea in the south. An electoral parish also exists stretching from Land's End to the north coast but avoiding St Just. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 4,589.
  Named after the Irish Saint Buriana, the parish is situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty and is a popular tourist destination. It has been a designated conservation area since 1990 and is near many sites of special scientific interest in the surrounding area.
  The parish is dotted with evidence of Neolithic activity, from stone circles and Celtic crosses to burial chambers and ancient holy wells.
context_section_description: Espionage novelist David John Moore Cornwell, better known as John le Carré, (whose books include The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) has lived in St Buryan for more than forty years. Many of his novels have been adapted for film, the most recent being Our Kind of Traitor in 2016. The author Derek Tangye, who died in 1996, also lived and wrote in the parish for many years, writing over twenty books, the Minack Chronicles, about life in rural Cornwall (Minack deriving from Dorminack Farm). Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs, starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, was filmed in St Buryan.
  Brenda Wootton, the well-known Cornish bard and folk singer, ran her celebrated 'Pipers Folk Club' in St Buryan Village Hall for a time in the late 1960s (later in Botallack). Continuing the musical tradition, the village is also home to St Buryan Male Voice Choir who fulfil many engagements every year and adopt a variety of musical styles. The choir, founded over sixty years ago by Hugh Rowe whose son, Geoffrey Rowe, was born in the village, and has made his name as a singer and comedian performing as Jethro. A female voice choir, the Buriana Singers, also exists.
caption: Jethro after his show at Retford in October 2008
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