St Dominic ( kw, Sen Domynek) is a

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and village in

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, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated east of

Callington Callington ( kw, Kelliwik) is a civil parish and town in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom about north of Saltash and south of Launceston. Callington parish had a population of 4,783 in 2001, according to the 2001 census. This had inc ...

and five miles (8 km) north of

Saltash Saltash (Cornish: Essa) is a town and civil parish in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It had a population of 16,184 in 2011 census. Saltash faces the city of Plymouth over the River Tamar and is popularly known as "the Gateway to Corn ...

.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' St Dominick is the historic spelling but this is gradually changing to drop the letter ''K''.GENUKI: St Dominick
GENUKI website; St Dominic; retrieved May 2010 It is still spelt with the ''K'' on Ordnance Survey mapping, and in the name of an electoral division, St Dominick, Harrowbarrow and Kelly Bray, but

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spells the parish name without the ''K''.
Cornwall Council website; St Dominic; retrieved May 2010 St Dominic parish is bounded by

Calstock Calstock ( kw, Kalstok) is a civil parish and a large village in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, on the border with Devon. The village is situated on the River Tamar south west of Tavistock and north of Plymouth. The parish had ...

parish to the north, by the

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and border with

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to the east, by

St Mellion St Mellion ( kw, Sen Melyan) is a village and rural civil parishes in England, civil parish in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is about south of Callington, Cornwall, Callington and is in the St Germans Registration District. ...

parish to the south and by Callington parish to the west. The

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is named after a female saint, St Dominica, and is in the Deanery and Hundred of East. The parish is also in the Registration District of St Germans (however, historic birth and death registers are in Liskeard and marriage registers in St Germans). The population of the parish was 833 in the 2001

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. This included Bohetherick but had decreased slightly to 799 at the 2011 census. The parish church is dedicated to St Dominica and has two aisles. The south aisle is the earlier of the two; the tower (of the 13th century) is of an unusual design. A dedication to

St. Dominic Saint Dominic ( es, Santo Domingo; 8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), also known as Dominic de Guzmán (), was a Castilian Catholic priest, mystic, the founder of the Dominican Order and is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientis ...

was added in 1963 by the Bishop of Truro
St Dominic Parish Council
has ten councillors and meets monthly in the village hall. The council members are sole trustees of the village hall St Dominick, Halton Quay chapel - geograph

St Dominick, Halton Quay chapel - geograph

As well as the churchtown the parish settlements include

Burraton Burraton is a northern suburb of Saltash, Cornwall, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic S ...

Bohetheric Bohetherick is a village in the Tamar valley in east Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom, approximately five miles (8 km) north of Saltash.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' It is in the civil parish ...

(also known as Etheric), and Halton Quay where there is an Anglican chapel. A National Trust house,

Cotehele Cotehele ( kw, Kosheyl) is a medieval house with Tudor additions, situated in the parish of Calstock in the east of Cornwall, England, and now belonging to the National Trust. It is a rambling granite and slate-stone manor house on the banks ...

, lies north of St Dominic. A history of St Dominic post office was published in 1988.

Charles Fitzgeoffrey Charles Fitzgeoffrey (1576–1638) was an Elizabethan poet and clergyman. Early life and education Fitzgeoffrey was born in Cornwall, the son of a clergyman, Alexander Fitzgeoffrey (a surname sometimes spelled Fitzgeffrey), Rector of the parish o ...

(1576–1638), a poet, was vicar of St Dominic in the early 17th century.

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