St Ive ( ; kw, Sen Iv) is a village in the

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St Ive and Pensilva St Ive and Pensilva, formerly St Ive is a civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish has 4,246 residents and an area of 6,894 acres. The parish is centred on the village of St Ive and also contains Gang, Middlehill, Parkfiel ...

in eastern

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, England, United Kingdom. The village is split into four parts: St Ive Church End, St Ive Cross, St Ive Keason and St Ive Parkfield. In addition to the parish an electoral ward exists stretching north of St Ive. The population at the 2011 census was 4,246.

History and geography

The parish used to be a large rural area of rolling landscape with wooded valleys and the population was sparse with the largest village being St Ive itself, sited on the A390. The hamlet of Woolston lies to the northwest of St Ive. The demography of the parish was radically altered with the mid-Victorian mining boom centred on Caradon Hill. South Caradon Mine situated just over the parish border was at one time the largest and most prosperous copper mine in the world. Until 1 April 2021 the parish was called St Ive, when it was renamed to "St Ive and Pensilva".

Emily Hobhouse Emily Hobhouse (9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, anti-war activist, and pacifist. She is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions in ...

, the social activist, and her brother Leonard Hobhouse, the politician and sociologist, were both born in St Ive.

Parish church

The parish church is probably dedicated to Saint Ive. However it is not certain whether he was a supposedly Persian bishop whose body was found in 1001 at St Ives in Cambridgeshire. The building is mainly 14th century and similar to the church of South Hill, though more elaborate in detail. The consecration of the church in 1338 is recorded in the diocesan register. The south aisle, south porch and the top of the tower were added either in the 15th or early 16th century: (the tower has 12 pinnacles). The pulpit is dated 1700 but is in the Jacobean style. A monument to J. Lyne, d. 1791, is by Robert Isbell; another monument to John Wrey, of the Wrey family, formerly of Trebeigh Manor within the parish, was moved to their principal seat of

Tawstock Tawstock is a village, civil parish and former manor in North Devon in the English county of Devon, England. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Barnstaple, Bishop's Tawton, Atherington, Yarnscombe, Horwood, ...

, Devon, in 1924. There are two stone crosses in the churchyard. One is a Latin wayside cross which was found in use as a gatepost in one of the glebe fields near the churchyard in 1932. A month later it was erected in its present position. The other is an incomplete cross which was found in the vicarage garden in 1965. In 1982 it was erected in the churchyard.

Trebeigh Manor

Trebeigh, St Ive, in Cornwall was a manor listed in

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as held by the Earl of Mortain, the largest landholder in that county. He is said to have taken it away wrongfully from the church. Contrary to popular belief, it was never owned by the

Knights Templar , colors = White mantle with a red cross , colors_label = Attire , march = , mascot = Two knights riding a single horse , equipment ...

. In 1338 Trebeigh belonged to the Hospital of St John or Knights Hospitaller, later the Knights of Malta, and formed the Preceptory of Trebeigh. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries the manor of Trebeigh was granted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1573 to Henry Wilbye and George Blyke, from whom it was acquired by John Wrey, who made it his family's chief seat until his descendants inherited

in Devon from the Bourchiers in 1654.Vivian, (ed.), Heralds' Visitations of Devon, 1895, p. 107 The family owned the ''Wheal Wrey'' mine in the parish.

Notable residents

, (9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926), welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the appalling conditions inside the

British concentration camps During the Second Anglo-Boer War which lasted from 1899–1902, the British operated concentration camps in South Africa: the term "concentration camp" grew in prominence during that period. The camps had originally been set up by the British Arm ...

in South Africa built for Boer women and children during the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...

. She was also the author of the

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during the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. Hobhouse's ashes were ensconced at the foot of the

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References

External links

St Ive Parish Council

Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for St Ive

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