Manaccan

Coordinates: 50°04′59″N 5°07′41″W / 50.083°N 5.128°W / 50.083; -5.128

Manaccan church
Manaccan in relation to neighbouring parishes
The New Inn, Manaccan

Manaccan (Cornish: Manahan)[1] is a civil parish and village on the Lizard peninsula in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about five miles (8 km) south-southwest of Falmouth.[2]

Manaccan parish is in a district known as Meneage which means 'land of the monks', a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish is bordered to the north by the Helford River (a drowned river valley or ria), to the west by St Martin-in-Meneage parish, to the south by St Keverne parish, and to the east by St Anthony-in-Meneage parish. The origin of the name Manaccan is probably derived not from a saint but from the Cornish for (church) of the monks. It was also at times called Minster in English because it must once have had a Celtic monastery. "St Manacca" is recorded as the patron as early as 1308.[3]

The population of Manaccan was 299 in the 2001 census,[4]which increased to 321 in the 2011 census.[5]

Manaccan lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

Buildings and antiquities

The parish church is dedicated to St Mannacus and St Dunstan (early records have St Manacca). There was a Norman church here and fragments of it remain; the doorway is one of the best specimens of Norman entrances in Cornwall.[6] The rest of the structure is of the 13th and 15th centuries. The west tower is built of slate.[7] The church is well known for a large and flourishing fig-tree which is growing out of the western part of the south wall of the church. It has been there for at least 250 years.[8]

Boden Vean Fogou was rediscovered by a local farmer in the 1990s and was excavated by archaeologists in 2003[9] and in September and October 2008.

Geology

In 1791 William Gregor discovered titanium in the stream that runs through the valley just south of the village. The location is commemorated by a plaque placed next to the bridge. The mineral ilmenite, an iron titanium oxide, was a constituent of the ore identified by William Gregor; it has an alternative name manaccanite, derived from Manaccan.

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth ISBN 978-0-319-23149-4
  3. ↑ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; pp. 152-53
  4. ↑ GENUKI website; Manaccan; retrieved April 2010
  5. ↑ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  6. ↑ GENUKI website; Manaccan; retrieved April 2010
  7. ↑ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed. Penguin Books; pp. 112-13
  8. ↑ GENUKI website; Manaccan; retrieved May 2010
  9. ↑ Modern Antiquarian (The). "Higher Boden Fogou". Retrieved 1 June 2009.
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