Mylor 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 ...

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, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately five miles north of Falmouth.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 ''Truro & Falmouth'' The

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of the

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Mylor Churchtown Mylor Churchtown is a coastal village in Cornwall, England. It is the church town of the ecclesiastical parish of Mylor and is situated at the mouth of Mylor Creek, approximately three miles north of Falmouth.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map ...

: however,

Mylor Bridge Mylor Bridge ( kw, Ponsnowyth) is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in Mylor civil parish at the head of Mylor Creek, about five miles north of Falmouth.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 ''Truro & Falmouth'' Found ...

is the largest village in the parish.GENUKI website
Mylor. Retrieved April 2010 Other settlements include Angarrick,

Carclew Carclew House, one of Britain's lost houses, was a large Palladian country house near Mylor in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was situated at approximately three miles north of Falmouth. Carclew House was for some generations owne ...

Flushing Flushing may refer to: Places * Flushing, Cornwall, a village in the United Kingdom * Flushing, Queens, New York City ** Flushing Bay, a bay off the north shore of Queens ** Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), a community in Queens ** Flushing ...

and

Restronguet Passage Restronguet Passage is a coastal hamlet in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated on the south bank of Restronguet Creek one mile north of Mylor Bridge and five miles (8 km) south of Truro. Restronguet Passage is in Mylor civil parish ...

.Cornwall Council online mapping
; Retrieved May 2010

Geography

Mylor is a maritime parish and is bounded by water on three sides:

Restronguet Creek Restronguet Creek is a tidal ria in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a tributary of Carrick Roads, the estuary of the River Fal, and is situated approximately four miles (6.5 km) south of Truro and three miles (5 km) north of ...

to the north,

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to the east and Falmouth Harbour to the south. To the west it is bounded by

St Gluvias St Gluvias is a settlement in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is now a suburb on the northern edge of Penryn which is northwest of Falmouth. Until 1 April 2021 there was civil parish was called St Gluvias which doesn't include ...

and

Perranarworthal Perranarworthal ( kw, Peran ar Wodhel) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about four miles (6.5 km) northwest of Falmouth and five miles (8 km) southwest of Truro. Perranarworthal p ...

parishes. The parish population at the 2011 census including Flushing and Restronguet Passage is 2,697. The parish, named after

Saint Melor Melor (also known in Latin as Melorius; in Cornish language, Cornish as Mylor; in French language, French as Méloir; and other variations) was a 10th-century Breton people, Breton saint who, in England, was venerated in Cornwall and at Amesbur ...

, is in the

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in the

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and the Deanery and Hundred of Kerrier. It was originally in Falmouth Registration District but is now in Truro Registration District. Mylor lies within the

Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty The Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers in Cornwall, England, UK; that is, about 27% of the total area of the county. It comprises 12 separate areas, designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 for s ...

(AONB). The policing of Mylor is the responsibility of

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who have a dedicated team known as the Penryn & Mylor Local Policing Team.

Church history

Mylor was in medieval times in the episcopal manor and peculiar deanery of Penryn and was also the mother church of Mabe. In 1277 there was a dispute between the

Bishop of Exeter The Bishop of Exeter is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury. Since 30 April 2014 the ordinary has been Robert Atwell.

and the

Earl of Cornwall The title of Earl of Cornwall was created several times in the Peerage of England before 1337, when it was superseded by the title Duke of Cornwall, which became attached to heirs-apparent to the throne. Condor of Cornwall *Condor of Cornwall, ...

over sand and soil which was being carried away from the glebe land of Mylor by agents of the Earl. In 1278 this was settled by the Bishop lifting the threat of excommunication he had made and redistributing the large sum of money he had collected as custom duty for the sand and soil. Bishop

Peter Quinel Peter Quinel () was a medieval Bishop of Exeter. He became a canon of Exeter Cathedral in 1276 and his episcopate began in 1280 and continued until he died in 1291. He issued a set of rules governing the clergy in his diocese and the required fu ...

gave the church and church land to the provostship of

Glasney College Glasney College ( kw, Kolji Glasneth) was founded in 1265 at Penryn, Cornwall, by Bishop Bronescombe and was a centre of ecclesiastical power in medieval Cornwall and probably the best known and most important of Cornwall's religious institut ...

in exchange for the deanery of

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in 1288. The feast days of St

Melorus Melor (also known in Latin as Melorius; in Cornish as Mylor; in French as Méloir; and other variations) was a 10th-century Breton saint who, in England, was venerated in Cornwall and at Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, which claimed some of his re ...

of Mylor are 3 January, 1 October and 25 October (Mylor feast used to be on 28 August but was transferred to the Sunday nearest 25 October).

Present day

Mylor Parish Church (

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) is in Mylor Churchtown and is dedicated to St Melorus. The present structure dates from a major reconstruction around 1870 but parts of the original church dated back to the

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period and the church still has a Norman north door. There were also Wesleyan Methodist and

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chapels in Mylor parish.

Customs

A mummers play text which had, until recently, been attributed to Mylor (much quoted in early studies of folk plays, such as ''The Mummers Play'' by R. J. E. Tiddy – published posthumously in 1923 – and ''The English Folk-Play'' (1933) by E. K. Chambers) has now been shown, by genealogical and other research, to have originated in

Truro Truro (; kw, Truru) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cornwall, England. It is Cornwall's county town, sole city and centre for administration, leisure and retail trading. Its ...

, around 1780.

Notable residents

* Sir James Penn Boucaut KCMG, Australian judge and politician, and three-times Premier of South Australia, was born here. * Edward Hoblyn, Vicar of Mylor for 45 years in the 19th centuryBrown, H. M. (1976) ''A Century for Cornwall''. Truro: Blackford; pl. 2, f.p. 22 (picture of him in old age, dated 1866) * The engineer William Husband was born here. *

Robert Terrill Rundle Robert Terrill Rundle (18 June 1811 – 4 February 1896) was a Cornish Wesleyan Methodist missionary from Cornwall, UK. His most noteworthy activities relate to his missionary work in Western Canada between 1840 and 1848. Early life Rundl ...

, the Wesleyan Methodist famous for his

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work in

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, was born in Mylor. *

Thomas Tregosse Rev. Thomas Tregosse (alternate spellings: Tregrosse, Tregoss, Tregoose) (c. 17th century, St Ives, England - c. 1670-71, Penryn, England) of Cornwall was a Puritan minister and vicar of the Rebellion period who was silenced for being a Nonc ...

, Puritan minister, sometime Vicar of Mylor and Mabe

References

''Notes on the Parish of Mylor''
published by Hugh Pengelly Olivey in 1907; Retrieved online April 2010

External links

Parish council website

Mylor Harbour
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