Cubert
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Cubert
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Cottages and pub of Cubert | |
Location within Cornwall | |
Population | 1,327 (United Kingdom Census 2011 including Ellenglaze , Gunmow's Shop and Holywell)[1] |
OS grid reference | SW785579 |
Civil parish |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | NEWQUAY |
Postcode district | TR8 |
Dialling code | 01637 |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Cornwall |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Cubert (
Once known as St Cubert, the village is dominated by the spire of its 14th-century church which was enlarged by the addition of a south aisle a century later.
The village is named after the Welsh missionary
The hamlets of Tresean, Treveal, Trevemper, Treworgans and Ellenglaze are in the parish.[7]
History and antiquities
The village has been without its prefix 'St' since the 16th/17th century when it was abandoned at the same time as the churchwardens whitewashed over the figure of St Cubert dressed as an abbot on the inside wall of the church. On early maps it often appears as St Kibberd—possibly indicating what the visiting cartographer heard when a local inhabitant was asked the name of the village.
To the west of the village, halfway between the village and the coast, is the medieval
A mile to the east of the village near the Newquay crossroads, where the four parishes of St Cubert,
An inscribed stone, dated from the sixth to eighth centuries, was found imbedded in the walls of the fifteenth-century church. It bears the name of "Cenet[o]cus, son of Tege[r]nomalus".[8]
A Cornish cross stands against the wall of the north transept of the church. The small cross head was brought to the churchyard about 1860 from Ellenglaze Lane and mounted on a shaft brought from outside the churchyard.[9]
Cornish wrestling
The champion Cornish wrestler, Thomas Hosken, was from Cubert. He defeated the champion Cornish wrestler of England (Lyttelton Weynorth) and was described as "the strongest man in the county."[10][11][12][13]
Gallery
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Cubert Church and War Memorial
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Lych gate at Cubert Church
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Cubert School
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Cubert Post Office
References
- ^ "Civil Parish 2011". Neighbourhood Statististics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ a b Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived May 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
- ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5
- ^ The Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 14
- Doble, G. H.(1965) The Saints of Cornwall; Part four: Saints of the Newquay, Padstow and Bodmin district. Truro: Dean and Chapter; pp. 31-52
- ^ Ellis, P. B. (1992) The Cornish Saints. Penryn: Tor Mark Press, pp. 9-10
- ^ Cornwall; Explore Britain
- ^ See the discussion and bibliography in Elisabeth Okasha, Corpus of Early Christian Inscribed Stones of South-west Britain (Leicester: University Press, 1993), pp. 97-99.
- ^ Langdon, A. G. (1896) Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard; p. 96
- ^ CORNISH WRESTLING, The Advertiser (Adelaide) 9 October 1928, p14.
- ^ Cornish wrestling, Cornish Guardian, 30 July 1936, p14.
- ^ Rev Polwhele, R: History of Cornwall, Michell & Co (Truro) 1816, p67-68.
- ^ Dr Whetter, James: Cornish People in the 18th Century, Lyfrow Trelyspen, The Roseland Institute, Gorran 2000, p50-56.