Memorial Cross Erected on the Wrestling Fields

On the outskirts of Breageside, that part of the village to the right of the harbour as you look out to sea, along the cliffs is an area known as the "Wrestling Fields". This was an area that was used to bury any shipwrecked mariner washed up on the shoreline, but following the wreck of HMS Anson on the Loe Bar in 1807, a local solicitor and MP for Helston, Thomas Grylls compiled an Act of Parliament to require bodies cast up by the sea on the shores of England, in cases of wreck or otherwise, to be buried in future in the nearest consecrated ground.

In 1949 a memorial cross was erected on the wrestling fields, which commemorates all those mariners drowned locally.