St Mabyn

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= St Mabyn
static_

static_image_caption=Aerial view of St Mabyn
map_type= Cornwall
latitude= 50.5263
longitude= -4.7639
population= 560 in 2001
os_grid_reference= SX041732
civil_parish= St Mabyn
shire_district= North Cornwall
shire_county= Cornwall
region= South West England
constituency_westminster= North Cornwall
post_town= BODMIN
postcode_district = PL30
postcode_area= PL
dial_code= 01208

St Mabyn is a village and civil parish situated between Wadebridge and Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

The village is named after Saint Mabena, one of the 24 children of St Brychan, a Welsh saint and King of Brycheiniog in the 5th century. [ [http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/mabena.html EBK: St. Mabena ] ] There are no other villages in the parish of St Mabyn, but there are many small manor houses, including Tregarden, Tredethy, Helligan and Colquite, all built in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The village is centred on the Grade 1 listed 15th century Church of St Mabena. It comprises a chancel and nave with north and south aisles. The arcades each comprise seven four-centred arches of granite, supported on monolith granite pillars with sculptured capitals of St Stephens porcelain stone. There is a south porch, a north door, and priest's door. The tower is 75 feet high and has three stages. It has a parapet with pinnacles. The earliest recorded Priest in charge was Roger de Warlegan in 1267. [http://www.thisisnorthcornwall.com/st-mabyn.html] The church is used regularly for services and weddings, Reverend Margaret Millson officiates.

Village amenities include a well stocked independent village store housing an ATM cashpoint and post office, a public house, a primary school, St.Mabyn C of E Primary School a playgroup, a scout group, a village hall, a tug o' war team, a garden club, and a Young Farmers' group. There is a King George's Field in memorial to King George V and a village green.

The village is surrounded by high quality, undulating farmland. The Allen valley to the north west contains a number of Cornish Nature Conservation Sites. Land to the south-east is designated as an open area of local significance. Four trees in the village are subject to preservation orders.Allan Ward Profile (Issue 8 March 2008) North Cornwall District Council]

There was post-war development of local authority housing along Chapel Lane and Wadebridge Road. In the 1980s private housing schemes at Mabena Close and Meadow Court were completed and there was further ribbon development growth along Station Road. [ [http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/wps/portal/?PpAction=select_document&select_type_id=117&select_object_id=1115313543096&text_category=&select_loc= Planning Portal ] ]

The village has no connection to main sewerage and relies on septic tank drainage.

The population in 2001 was 560 persons, exactly the same as in 1811, having declined from 595 in 1991 [ [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/StMabyn/index.html GENUKI: St Mabyn ] ] In 2004 the proportion of dwellings that were second homes or holiday accommodation reached 10.8% [http://www.ncdc.gov.uk/media/adobe/r/8/Second%20Homes%20in%20North%20Cornwall.pdf] and in 2007 it was 12.3%.

History

The earliest signs of habitation are at the Iron age hill fort of Kelly Rounds or Castle Killibury. Radiocarbon dating gives a date of occupation between 400 and 100 BC. ["Weatherhill, Craig. "Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall & Scilly" (Cornwall Books - 1985, revised 1997 & 2000, ISBN 1-871060-31-1)]

The parish was part of the ancient hundred of Triggshire. In the Domesday book of 1087 this district was taxed under the jurisdiction of Treu-es-coit translated as "town of wood" (now called Trevisquite) The inquisition of the Bishop of Lincoln and bishop of Winchester in 1294 gave the Cornish benefice "Ecclesia de Maben in decanatu de Trig Minorshire" a rateable value of £8. In Thomas Cardinal Wolsey's inquisition of 1521 it is rated at £36. [Polsue Joseph Parochial History of the County of Cornwall published 1870]

Sir Richard Serjeaux of Colquite in St Mabyn became High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1389. [Joseph Polsue (ed), A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, Vol IV, 1872, p122]

There used to be a United Methodist Free Church chapel, it was built with funding from Richard Hambly Andrew of Tredinnick in 1820 during the incumbency of Mr Leveson-GowerMaclean John Parochial and Family history of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall St. Mabyn and Michaelstowe. published 1875.] and is now a private house.

St Mabyn's standing stone was broken up for gateposts in 1850 and the stump re-located to the crossroads at Longstone. [ [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8428 The Megalithic Portal and Megalith
] ]

The main land owners in 1875, apart from the church, were The Viscount Falmouth, the Trustees of the late Sir William Molesworth, John Tremayne from Heligan, the heirs of the late John Peter-Hoblyn, Francis John Hext and Mrs. Hooper and Richard Hambly Andrew.

There was an annual fair held on February 14th. [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/gaztext_page.jsp?u_id=10082833&c_id=10001043 St Mabyn AP/CP Cornwall through time | Descriptive Gazetteer entries ] ]

See also

* List of topics related to Cornwall

References

External links

* [http://stmabyn.blogspot.com/ News from the village of St Mabyn in North Cornwall]
* [http://www.stmabyncornwall.co.uk/ 'Unofficial' St Mabyn website]
* [http://www.st-mabyn.cornwall.sch.uk/ St Mabyn Primary School]
* [http://stmabynschool.blogspot.com// News from St Mabyn Primary School]
* [http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='st%20mabyn') Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for St Mabyn]