See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=51320064 . " It has been suggested that it is not named after the Greek fabler, but that the name is a corruption of the Hebrew 'Yesu', or Jesus. There is a legend that the teenage Jesus came to Britain with his uncle, Phoenician tin trader Joseph of Arimathea, and that they landed at Looe." http://www.southwestcoastpath.com/walksdb/85/
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