Germoe

Coordinates: 50°06′54″N 5°22′44″W / 50.115°N 5.379°W / 50.115; -5.379
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Germoe
Germoe is located in Cornwall
Germoe
Germoe
Location within Cornwall
Population528 (United Kingdom Census 2011 including Balwest)
OS grid referenceSW585294
Civil parish
  • Germoe
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPENZANCE
Postcode districtTR20
Dialling code01736
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cornwall
50°06′54″N 5°22′44″W / 50.115°N 5.379°W / 50.115; -5.379
St Germoe's Chair

Germoe (

A394 Penzance to Helston road runs along the southern border of the parish.[2] Other settlements in the parish include Balwest, Boscreege and Tresowes Green
.

The parish is named after Saint Germocus, one of the companions of Saint Breage. According to legend Germoc was a king in Ireland whose feast day is 6 May.

Historically, the largest landowners in the parish were the Godolphin family (the Dukes of Leeds).[3]

Germoe parish is bounded to the north, east and south by Breage parish and to the west by St Hilary parish.[4] The population was 508 in the 2001 census.[3] This had increased to 549 at the 2011 Census.[5] The parish is now rural in character but was once associated with mining; to the north it borders the geological formation known as the Tregonning-Godolphin Granite (one of five granite batholiths in Cornwall) and the area was formerly an important source of tin and copper ore (see Geology of Cornwall).[3] Tregonning Hill is the site of the Germoe war memorial.

Churches

The parish church in Germoe is mostly of the 14th century and is built on the site of an earlier Norman church. The church has a chancel, nave, north aisle, south transept, and a three-stage battlemented tower of granite ashlar. There are three long tailed monkeys carved on the porch which are said to ward off evil. There is a Godolphin family pew in the north aisle.

ecclesiastical parish of Germoe is now grouped with Breage. A Wesleyan Methodist
chapel was built at Balwest in 1829 for miners in the north of the parish.

Pengersick Castle

Grade II* listed building.[6]

The house is of late

smugglers to frighten people away.[12]
Additionally, Sir John Milliton died in 1570, and his wife in 1579.

Gallery

  • Pengersick Castle
    Pengersick Castle
  • St Germoe church
    St Germoe church
  • Kenneggy Methodist Chapel
    Kenneggy Methodist Chapel

References

The gardens of Pengersick Farm
  1. ^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 15 May 2013 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.
  2. ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  3. ^ a b c d [1] GENUKI website: Germoe. Retrieved May 2010
  4. ^ "Cornwall Council interactive mapping". Archived from the original on 5 May 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010. Cornwall Council mapping. Retrieved May 2010
  5. ^ "2011 census. Retrieved 5 Feb 2015".
  6. ^ Historic England. "PENGERSICK CASTLE (1311147)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  7. ^ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books; pp. 72, 134
  8. ^ Pengersick Castle
  9. ^ BBC Cornwall: A night at Pengersick
  10. ^ "Legend of Pengersick Castle". Archived from the original on 27 June 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
  11. ^ Anthony D. Hippisley Coxe, Haunted Britain, pg. 22, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York 1973
  12. ^ a b Double Exposure: Pengersick Castle Archived 2012-10-25 at the Wayback Machine

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