- St Issey
St Issey is a small village located about 2.5 miles (4
km ) south ofPadstow and approximately 5 miles (8km) north ofSt Columb Major inCornwall ,England ,UK . The parish and covers an area of approximately 4500acre s (18km² ).On the
river Camel in this parish there the remains of a sea mill. [ [http://victorian.fortunecity.com/holbein/871/cornwall.htm Tidemills ] ]Saint Yse was one of the twenty-four children of St
Brychan , a Welsh saint and king, in the 4th century.In 1869 the church tower was struck by lightning and collapsed [The
Illustrated London News Vol LIV ]HMS St. Issey
On 28 December 1942 the British
tug HMS St. Issey (Lt. J.H.W. Howe, RNR) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine (U-617) offBenghazi ,Libya [ [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/7343.html uboat.net - Allied Warships - Rescue Tug HMS St. Issey of the Saint class ] ]External links
* [http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='st%20issey') Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for St Issey]
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