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St Tudy () is a village and
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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in north
Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
, England. The village is situated in the
River Camel The River Camel (, 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 Celtic Sea between ...
valley approximately five miles northeast of
Wadebridge Wadebridge (; ) is a town and civil parishes in England, 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 pe ...
.


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 usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal mea ...
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 Roman symbol of Britannia (a female per ...
style); Lamellen, Tremeer and Wetherham Lamellen has a garden with some very large
rhododendron ''Rhododendron'' (; : ''rhododendra'') is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the Ericaceae, heath family (Ericaceae). They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are native to eastern Asia and the Himalayan ...
s and
cryptomeria ''Cryptomeria'' (literally "hidden parts") is a monotypic genus of conifer in the cypress family Cupressaceae. It includes only one species, ''Cryptomeria japonica'' ( syn. ''Cupressus japonica'' L.f.). It is considered to be endemic to Japan, ...
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 calle ...
'', ''
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) an ...
'' 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 tropical and subtropical areas in East Asia, eastern and South Asia, southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are ...
s. There are fifty colourful, evergreen Kurume hybrid azaleas sent to Cornwall from
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and planted in the lawn by Major General
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. 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 Breward () is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the western side of Bodmin Moor, about 6 miles (10 km) north of Bodmin. At the 2011 census the parish population including Cooksland and Fentonadle ...
', '
St Merryn St Merryn () is a civil parishes in England, civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is about south of the fishing port of Padstow and northeast of the coastal resort of Newquay. The village has a primary schoo ...
' and '
St Minver St Minver () is the name of an ecclesiastical parish, a civil parish and a village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The civil parish of St Minver is in Bodmin Registration District and is nominally divided into St Minver Highlands (t ...
' (all named after local saints). 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
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'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

The parish church is dedicated to St Tudius and was
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in 1873. There was a Norman church 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 bordered ...
. 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:
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, naval officer;
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, former governor of the
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; Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist at
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; Richard Lower, early experimenter in blood transfusion; Humphrey Nicholls, 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 West New Jersey from 1680 to 1687, until his death in England. Byllynge owned a large section of land in New Jersey with the
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. He was born at Hengar.


Cornish wrestling

Cornish wrestling Cornish wrestling () is a form of wrestling that has been established in Cornwall for many centuries and possibly longer. It is similar to the Breton people, Breton Gouren wrestling style. It is colloquially known as "wrasslin’"Phillipps, K C: ...
tournaments, for prizes, were held at Hengar Manor in the 1800s.Royal Cornwall Gazette, 21 September 1811.


References


Further reading

* Maclean, John (1872–79) ''The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor''. 3 vols. London: Nichols & Son


External links

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