Lanivet

Lanivet is a village and civil parish in the North Cornwall district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.The main village is 2½ miles south-west of Bodmin.

The parish includes the hamlets of Bodwanick, Bokiddick, Lamorick, St Inganger, Trebell, Tregullon, Tremoore, and Woodly, part of St Lawrance is also in this parish.

In the church are monuments of the Courtenays of Tremere. In the churchyard are two ancient stone crosses and a rare example of a Hogback grave dating from the Viking times. About a quarter of a mile from the church are the remains of St. Benet's, a monastery of the Benedictine order, said to have been subordinate to Monte Cassino, in Italy, or according to others, Clairvaux in Burgundy.

St Congar, in the parish, is said to have been the residence of the hermit, Saint Congar of Congresbury, in the early 6th century.

Thomas Hardy connection

Thomas Hardy came to Lanivet in August, 1872, to visit the home of Emma Gifford where he was introduced to her parents at Kirland House. He wrote a poem in the same year entitled "Near Lanivet". ["Thomas Hardy - A Biography Revisited - Page 131" By Michael Millgate]