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, England, United Kingdom. *Hendra,

Breage Breage or Breaca (with many variant spellings) is a saint venerated in Cornwall and South West England. According to her late hagiography, she was an Irish nun of the 5th or 6th century who founded a church in Cornwall. The village and civil par ...

(, ) *Hendra,

Camelford Camelford () is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, situated in the River Camel valley northwest of Bodmin Moor. The town is approximately north of Bodmin and is governed by Camelford Town Council. The ward pop ...

(, ) *Hendra, Grade-Ruan (, ) *Hendra, St Dennis (, ) * Hendra, near Catchall,

Sancreed Sancreed () is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, approximately three miles (5 km) west of Penzance. Sancreed civil parish encompasses the settlements of Bejouans, Bosvennen, Botreah ...

(, ) *Hendra,

Stithians Stithians (), also known as St Stythians, is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies in the middle of the triangle bounded by Redruth, Helston and Falmouth. Its population (2001) is 2,004, increasing to 2,10 ...

(, ) *Hendra,

Wendron Wendron (; historically St. Wendron) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is approximately to the north of Helston and to the west of Penryn. The parish population at the 2011 census was 2,743. The electoral ...

(, ) *Hendra,

Withiel Withiel () is a civil parish and village in mid Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish of Withiel is between the parishes of St Breock, Lanivet, Roche and St Wenn. The name ''Withiel'' comes from the Cornish word ''gwydhyel'', meaning "woo ...

(, ) Hendra derives from the Cornish "hendre", meaning "home farm". There are also places in Ladock, St Ives, St Just and St Teath called Hendra. It could also mean "old farm".

Hendra Cross

A stone

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was found at Hendra Farm,

Menheniot Menheniot (pronounced Men-en-yut; ) is a civil parishes in England, civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is southeast of Liskeard. The meaning of the name is "sanctuary of Neot" (from ''minihi'' and ''Neo ...

in the early 1960s. It had been buried upside down in the ground to form a gatepost. In 1991 the two separate pieces of the cross were repaired and erected on a new base near Hendra farmhouse. Another cross sometimes known as Hendra Cross is at a crossroads near

Bossiney Bossiney (, meaning ''Kyni's dwelling'') is a village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is north-east of the larger village of Tintagel which it adjoins: further north-east are the Rocky Valley and Trethevy. Until 1832 the village, ...

. Langdon, A. G. (1896). ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard. pp. 98–9.

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