Mylor is a

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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 church town of the

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is Mylor Churchtown: however, Mylor Bridge is the largest village in the parish.GENUKI website
Mylor. Retrieved April 2010 Other settlements include Angarrick, Carclew,

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and Restronguet Passage.Cornwall Council online mapping
; Retrieved May 2010

Geography

Mylor is a maritime parish and is bounded by water on three sides: Restronguet Creek 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 and Perranarworthal parishes. The parish population at the 2011 census including Flushing and Restronguet Passage is 2,697. The parish, named after Saint Melor, 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

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(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

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and the

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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 gave the church and church land to the provostship of Glasney College in exchange for the deanery of

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in 1288. The feast days of St Melorus 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

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, around 1780.

Notable residents

* Sir

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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, the Wesleyan Methodist famous for his

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work in

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, was born in Mylor. * Thomas Tregosse, 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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