Advent, Cornwall
Civil parish in Cornwall, England
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::summary Civil parish in Cornwall, England ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox UK place"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| static_image_name | Advent Church-by-Chris-Heaton.jpg |
| static_image_caption | St Adwenna's Church |
| country | England |
| map_type | Cornwall |
| coordinates | |
| official_name | Advent |
| cornish_name | Sen Adhwynn |
| population | 189 |
| population_ref | GENUKI |
| civil_parish | Advent |
| unitary_england | Cornwall |
| lieutenancy_england | Cornwall |
| region | South West England |
| constituency_westminster | North Cornwall |
| post_town | CAMELFORD |
| postcode_district | PL32 |
| postcode_area | PL |
| dial_code | 01840 |
| os_grid_reference | SX 104 816 |
| london_distance_mi | 207 |
| london_direction | W |
| :: |
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Advent () is a civil parish on the north-western edge of Bodmin Moor in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The English name St Adwenna derives from the Cornish Adhwynn and lies in the Registration District of Camelford.
Advent is a sparsely populated rural parish. Much of the area is moorland and at the 2001 census the population was just 153. This increased to 189 at the 2011 census. It includes the hamlets of Tresinney, Pencarrow, Highertown and Watergate but there is no village called Advent. The parish also encompasses several small farmstead hamlets, numerous scattered farms and Pencarrow House. (Note, the Pencarrow House that is a minor stately home and open to the public, is not in the hamlet of Pencarrow in Advent Parish, it is some miles away near Bodmin.)
Tresinney hamlet lies above the River Camel, 1 mi south from Camelford, and Advent parish church is north of the hamlet. Three recreational footpaths – the Watermill Walk, Camelford Way and the Moorland Walk – run through Tresinney. In a field on the west side of the parish church stands a tall and elegant Cornish cross.
The parish is bordered to the north and the east by Davidstow parish; to the south by St Breward parish; and to the north-west by the River Camel and Camelford parish.
St Adwenna's Church
Main article: St Adwen's Church, Advent
The Grade I listed parish church is dedicated to St Adwen, one of the daughters of King Brychan of Brycheiniog,
The ecclesiastical parish is the responsibility of the Rector of Lanteglos-by-Camelford, and Advent has been associated with Lanteglos since medieval times.
Common surnames in Advent Parish
According to the UK Census:
Alford, Inch, French, Pethick, Northey, Gillard, Rowe, Bone, Bate, Baker, Scott, Prout, Kellow, Kingdon, Hole, Martyn, Elford, Ford, Wills, Hawken, Trace, Gabriel, Miller, Arnall, Browning.
References
References
- Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN. 978-0-319-22938-5
- [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/Advent/ "Advent"] [[Genuki]].org.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2015
- [http://www.explorebritain.info/browse/cornwall/ Cornwall]; Explore Britain
- Pencarrow]] House in [[Egloshayle]] parish.
- Langdon, A. G. (1896) ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard; p. 55
- [http://mapping.cornwall.gov.uk/website/ccmap/ Online mapping] {{webarchive. link. (5 May 2010 Cornwall Council. Retrieved June 2010)
- {{NHLE
- often conflated with St [[Dwynwen]], the [[patron saint]] of Love. The church stands in fields on farmland 440 yards (400m) north-east from the hamlet of Tresinney at {{gbmapping. ring of four bells]]: the greater part of the building dates from the 15th century. The south [[Aisle#Architecture. aisle]] was added at that time; the north [[transept]] was [[Early English Period. Early English]] but was rebuilt in 1870, at which time the south transept was demolished, The [[Baptismal font. font]] is [[Norman architecture. Norman]], plain and circular.Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed. Penguin Books; p. 35
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