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Manaccan (; kw, Manahan) is a civil parish and village on the Lizard peninsula in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is about five miles (8 km) south-southwest of Falmouth. The origin of the name Manaccan is probably derived not from a saint but from the Cornish for (church) of the monks. It was also at times called Minster in English because it must once have had a Celtic monastery. " St Manacca" is recorded as the patron saint as early as 1308. The population of Manaccan was 321 in the 2011 census, an increase from 299 in the 2001 census. Manaccan lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a
National Park A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...
.


Governance

Manaccan is in the parliamentary constituency of St Ives. Derek Thomas is the Member of Parliament. For local government purposes it is in the ''St Keverne and Meneage'' ward of Cornwall Council, a unitary authority. Manaccan has its own Parish Council: ''Manaccan Parish Council''. Manaccan parish is in a district known as
Meneage The Meneage ( kw, Menaghek or ''Manahek'') is a district in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. The nearest large towns are Falmouth and Penryn. (''Note: the coordinates above are the approximate centre of the Meneage district.'') The meaning of ...
which means 'land of the monks', a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish is bordered to the north by the
Helford River The Helford River ( kw, Dowr Mahonyer) is a ria (flooded river valley) in Cornwall, England, fed by small streams into its many creeks. There are seven creeks on the Helford; from west to east these are Ponsontuel Creek, Mawgan Creek, Polpenwit ...
(a drowned river valley or ria), to the west by St Martin-in-Meneage parish, to the south by St Keverne parish, and to the east by
St Anthony-in-Meneage St Anthony-in-Meneage ( kw, Lannentenin) is a coastal civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is in the Meneage district of the Lizard peninsula. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 171, decreasin ...
parish.


Buildings and antiquities

The parish church is dedicated to St
Mannacus Mybbard and Mancus were two Cornish saints of the 6th century. Meubred Mybbard (Mewbred or Mebbred),also known as Calrogus was a 6th century hermit and is a local Cornish saint said to be the son of a King of Ireland. Very little is known ...
and
St Dunstan Saint Dunstan (c. 909 – 19 May 988) was an English bishop. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life i ...
, it is a Grade I Listed building. There was a
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church here and fragments of it remain; the doorway is one of the best specimens of Norman entrances in Cornwall. The rest of the structure is of the 13th and 15th centuries. The west tower is built of slate. The church is well known for a large and flourishing
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which is growing out of the western part of the south wall of the church. It has been there for at least 250 years. Boden Vean Fogou was rediscovered by a local farmer in the 1990s and was excavated by archaeologists in 2003 and in September and October 2008.


Geology

In 1790 William Gregor discovered ilmenite, an iron titanium oxide, which he named menachanite (and is sometimes still called manaccanite), in Gillan Creek that runs through the valley just south of the village. After he analyzed it he found a new element, titanium, that he called menachine. The location is commemorated by a plaque placed next to the bridge. He presented his findings in 1791.


Notable people

*
Thomas Flindell Thomas Flindell (1767 – 11 July 1824), was an English newspaper editor and printer. Background Flindell was born in 1767 at Helford, in the parish of Manaccan, Cornwall, and was, to use his own words, 'bred an illiterate half-seaman.' He was ap ...
, newspaper publisher, was born at Helford in the parish. * Brigadier-General
Francis Stewart Montague-Bates Brigadier-General Francis Stewart Montague-Bates, , (1876–1954) was a British Army officer in the early part of the 20th century, seeing active service in the Second Boer War, the World War I, First World War, the Occupation of Constantinople, ...
(1876 - 1954) was born and died at Manaccan. * Richard Polwhele, clergyman and historian; Vicar of Manaccan. Polwhele was non-resident at Manaccan from 1806; he angered Manaccan parishioners with his efforts to restore the church and vicarage.


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* {{authority control Villages in Cornwall Civil parishes in Cornwall Meneage