St Tudy ( kw, Eglostudi) is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

and village in north

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, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated in the

River Camel The River Camel ( kw, Dowr Kammel, meaning ''crooked river'') is a river in Cornwall, England. It rises on the edge of Bodmin Moor and with its tributaries its catchment area covers much of North Cornwall. The river flows into the eastern Cel ...

valley approximately five miles northeast of

Wadebridge Wadebridge (; kw, Ponswad) is a town and civil parish in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town straddles the River Camel upstream from Padstow.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 ''Newquay & Bodmin'' The permanent populat ...

History

The village is mentioned as having a cattle fair in Owen's book of fairs 1788. During

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, the

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60th Engineer Combat Battalion, part of the 35th Infantry Division were based at St Tudy prior to leaving for the

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via Southampton Docks.

Notable houses

There was formerly a

manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...

at Tinten and the chapel may still be recognised. It has been reused as a barn and has a 15th-century window. Other small former manor houses in the parish are Hengar, which was destroyed by a fire in 1904 (in 1906 it was rebuilt in

Elizabethan The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia (a female personifi ...

style); Lamellen, Tremeer and Wetherham Lamellen has a garden with some very large

rhododendron ''Rhododendron'' (; from Ancient Greek ''rhódon'' "rose" and ''déndron'' "tree") is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae). They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are nati ...

s and

cryptomeria ''Cryptomeria'' (literally "hidden parts") is a monotypic genus of conifer in the cypress family Cupressaceae, formerly belonging to the family Taxodiaceae. It includes only one species, ''Cryptomeria japonica'' ( syn. ''Cupressus japonica'' L ...

s. Between 1941 and 1962 the garden became very overgrown but after 1962 a programme of reclamation began. The garden is full of plants such as ''

Stewartia pseudocamellia ''Stewartia pseudocamellia'', also known as Korean stewartia, Japanese stewartia, or deciduous camellia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Theaceae, native to Japan (southern Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku) and Korea. Names It is called ...

'', ''

Magnolia campbellii ''Magnolia campbellii'', or Campbell's magnolia, is a species of ''Magnolia'' that grows in sheltered valleys in the Himalaya from eastern Nepal, Sikkim and Assam, India, east to southwestern China (southern Xizang, Yunnan, southern Sichuan) and ...

'' and ''Rhododendron malayanum''. Another notable garden is the garden of Tremeer which is full of rhododendrons and

camellia ''Camellia'' (pronounced or ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are more than 220 described species, with some controversy ...

s. There are fifty colourful, evergreen Kurume hybrid

azaleas Azaleas are flowering shrubs in the genus ''Rhododendron'', particularly the former sections ''Tsutsusi'' (evergreen) and '' Pentanthera'' (deciduous). Azaleas bloom in the spring (April and May in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, and Octob ...

sent to Cornwall from

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and planted in the lawn by Major General

Eric Harrison Sir Eric John Harrison, (7 September 1892 – 26 September 1974) was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was the inaugural deputy leader of the Liberal Party (1945–1956), and a government minister under four prime ministers. He was lat ...

. Behind the house is a plantation of camellia varieties. Harrison has produced several varieties of rhododendron from ''Rhododendron impeditum'' and ''R. augustinii''; these were given local names 'St Tudy', 'St Breward', 'St Merryn' and 'St Minver'. The paths through the rhododendrons lead to a pond at the far end of the garden. Other notable plants in the garden are a Camellia 'Donation' and a Magnolia x veitchii. One of the most well-known of

Thomas Rowlandson Thomas Rowlandson (; 13 July 175721 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social an ...

's paintings is "Hengar House the seat of Matthw Mitchell Esqr., Cornwall" (1812) which was sold at the Sir Richard Onslow sale, Sotheby's, 15 July 1959. Hengar was a country seat of the Onslows.

Parish church

St Tudy Church and War Memorial - geograph

The parish church is dedicated to St Tudius and was

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in 1873. There was a

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here but the present structure is of the

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period. There are two aisles, the arcades of which are identical. The tower has three stages, is 64 feet high, and is topped with battlements and pinnacles; there are six bells. It is

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. Anthony Nicholl (died 1658) is commemorated by a sumptuous memorial erected by his wife.
In the churchyard is a pre-Norman coped stone with carving, possibly a rare Hogback (sculpture), hogback tomb. Trevenning Cross is at a road junction about one and a half miles northeast of the churchtown. It was found in the hedge close to its present position by J. R. Collins of

Bodmin Bodmin () is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated south-west of Bodmin Moor. The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character. It is bordere ...

. The

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s of the village are celebrated in the song ''The Ringers of Egloshayle'' ( Roud 1163). A soldier returning from to St Tudy from

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is reported to have planted a conker collected from

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near the church.

Notable people

Notable people from St Tudy include:

William Bligh Vice-Admiral William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. The mutiny on the HMS ''Bounty'' occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command; after being set adrift i ...

, naval officer;

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, former governor of the

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;

Oscar Kempthorne Oscar Kempthorne (January 31, 1919 – November 15, 2000) was a British statistician and geneticist known for his research on randomization-analysis and the design of experiments, which had wide influence on research in agriculture, genetics, and ...

, statistician and geneticist at

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; Richard Lower, early experimenter in blood transfusion;

Humphrey Nicholls Humphrey Nicholls (1577–1643) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629. Nicholls was the son of Humphrey Nicholls of Cornwall. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 28 March 1595, aged 17. He was of Pen ...

, MP for Bodmin; and Vice Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly who led a campaign for the local pub to be renamed after William Bligh. Major-General Eric Harrison served in both world wars; he was a rugby player, Olympic athlete, and later a painter; in retirement he lived at Tremeer. Edward Byllynge was a colonial administrator and governor of

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from 1680 to 1687, until his death in England. Byllynge owned a large section of land in New Jersey with the

Quakers Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's abil ...

. He was born at Hengar.

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