St Teath

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Village in Cornwall, England

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::summary Village in Cornwall, England ::

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Field	Value
country	England
map_type	Cornwall
static_image_name	St Teath clock tower-by-Jonathan-Billinger.jpg
official_name	St Teath
cornish_name	Eglostedha
coordinates
population	2628
population_ref	(Civil Parish, 2011)
civil_parish	St Teath
unitary_england	Cornwall
lieutenancy_england	Cornwall
region	South West England
constituency_westminster	North Cornwall
post_town	BODMIN
postcode_district	PL30
postcode_area	PL
dial_code	01208
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St Teath (; ) is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom.

Geography

The village is situated approximately 3 mi southwest of Camelford and 7 mi northeast of Wadebridge. The hamlet of Whitewell lies to the west. The parish population at the 2011 census was 2628. An electoral ward also exists which includes Delabole and St Breward; the population for this ward at the same census was 3,957.

History

Parish church

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The parish church is dedicated to Saint Tetha the Virgin, a 5th-century companion of Saint Breaca and supposed daughter of King Brychan Brycheiniog in Wales. The church is a Grade I protected building consisting of a Norman core and 15th-century expansions. It is large, with a nave and two aisles. The church was collegiate until 1545 when the two prebends were abolished. The church was renovated in 1879, reopening 6 November by the Bishop of Truro, Edward Benson.

There is a Cornish cross in the cemetery on the other side of the road from the churchyard. An account of it was given in the Antiquarian Magazine, August 1883. Part of it was once used as a footbridge; it was afterwards used in the churchyard wall but the parts were reunited and repaired; both the head and the shaft are ornamented. There is also a cross base in the churchyard.

Anne Jeffries

St Teath was the birthplace in December 1626 of Anne Jeffries, a woman said to have associated with fairies.

Cattle sale and cricket match

The first recorded mention of cricket in Cornwall is an advertisement in the Sherborne Mercury on 18 June 1781 for the sale of cattle at St Teath, near Camelford. The advertisement was dated 14 June 1781 and signed by Nathaniel Long.

::quote Whereas the annual sale for cattle at St Teath, near Camelford, Cornwall held at the first Tuesday in July had for several years being rather neglected. This is to inform the publick, that the Gentlemen farmers etc of the neighbourhood will produce a large show of cattle of the said day being the 3rd day of July next. NB. The evening of the same day will be cricketed for a very handsome silver-laced hat. 20th CenturyDuring World War II, bombs were dropped twice on or near St Teath, this occurring on consecutive days in August 1940. On the second occasion, 30 August, none of the bombs that were dropped actually exploded.

==Cornish wrestling== Throughout the 19th century, St Teath hosted Cornish wrestling tournaments in various venues including the New White Hart Inn. == Notable people ==

Moses Pitt (c. 1639–1697) a bookseller and printer known for the production of his Atlas of the world.
Abraham Bastard (1789–1868), wrestler, beat the famous wrestler James Polkinghorne (1788–1851), at a famous match at St Kew in the 1820s. He later became a preacher, who wrote a well known book of his life.
Philip Gross (born 1952), from Delabole is a poet, novelist, playwright, children's writer

==References==

==Further reading==

Maclean, John (1872–79) The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor. 3 vols. London: Nichols & Son

==External links==

Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for St Teath

[[Category:Civil parishes in Cornwall]] [[Category:Villages in Cornwall]] ::

References

Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' {{ISBN. 978-0-319-22938-5
"Parish population 2011".
"Ward population 2011".
Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed. Penguin; p. 202
''Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 201
Langdon, A. G. (1896) ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 391-94 & 423
G. E. Ellis "Cornish crosses" ''Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries'', 1964 Vol. 29, pp. 273-274
Haughton, Brian. "Anne Jefferies and the Fairies – Brian Haughton.com".
(2005). "One Hundred Years of The Cornwall Cricket League".
""When Bombs Fell" – The air-raids on Cornwall during WW2 : Part 2 – 1940". BBC.
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 26 May 1870.
Royal Cornwall Gazette, 16 July 1880.
{{cite DNB. Tedder. Henry Richard. ()
''Historic venue for wrestling in St Kew'', Cornish Guardian, 16 August 1956, p9.
''Cornish Wrestling down the ages'', West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 4 January 1954, p1.
Samuel Ley Thorne,''The Converted Wrestler; or the Life of Abraham Bastard'', 1877

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