St Breock
St Breock
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![]() St Breock Church | |
Location within Cornwall | |
Population | 734 (United Kingdom Census 2011 including Edmonton and Engollan) |
OS grid reference | SW 978 719 |
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | WADEBRIDGE |
Postcode district | PL27 |
Dialling code | 01208 |
Police | Devon and Cornwall |
Fire | Cornwall |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Councillors | Stephen Rushworth (C, St Issey and St Tudy) |
St Breock (
Geography
St Breock village is 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Wadebridge immediately to the south of the Royal Cornwall Showground. The village lies on the eastern slope of the wooded Nansent valley. The civil parish of St Breock is in Bodmin Registration District and the population in the 2001 census was 703, increasing to 725 at the 2011 census.[1] The parish extends approx five miles (8 kilometres) south of Wadebridge. To the north, the parish is bounded by the River Camel, to the west by St Issey parish, to the northeast by Egloshayle parish and to the southeast by Lanivet parish. Together with Egloshayle it was one of the two parishes within which the town of Wadebridge developed.
History
Prehistory
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Around two miles south of the village stands the
20th Century
During
Manor of Pawton
The Manor of Pawton, already established in
Parish Church
The parish church
The church contains some fine monuments to members of the Tredeneck family and one of 1598 to William and Jane Viell. The heirs of the Viell family in the 17th century were the Prideaux family of
References
- ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ St Breock Downs Monolith, English Heritage, retrieved 12 April 2012
- ^ Historic England. "Pawton Quoit (430271)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ ""When Bombs Fell" - The air-raids on Cornwall during WW2 : Part 2 - 1940". WW2 People's war. BBC. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- ^ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; pp. 64-65
- ^ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., edited by Enid Radcliffe. Penguin Books
- ^ Thorn, C., et al. (eds.) (1979) Cornwall. Chichester: Phillimore; sec. 2,4 Text and translation of Domesday account of Pawton
- ^ F. M. O'Donoghue, ‘Molesworth [St Aubyn], Catherine (1760–1836)’, rev. Annette Peach, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 30 March 2015
- ^ "Church News". The Cornishman. No. 159. 28 July 1881. p. 4.
- ^ Delderfield, Eric R., West Country Historic Houses and their Families, Newton Abbot, 1968, p. 124
- ^ Dunkin, E. (1882) Monumental Brasses. London: Spottiswoode
- ^ Rendell, Joan (1982) Cornish Churches. St Teath: Bossiney Books; pp. 18-19
External links
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