Category: church history

St Columb Major Parish Church and Town, Cornwall.

St Columb Major is a town that we had a nice wander around when we toured Cornwall recently. Was lovely as it was a Sunday afternoon, so nice and quiet. There are some lovely buildings and interesting places to see in the town. Barclays Bank Building This looks so inviting !!  Probably just as well this Antique…

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The Trist Family, Veryan and the Five Round Houses

We went off touring for a while down to Cornwall at the beginning of this month, and finally got to stay at the Camping and Caravan Club site at Veryan, what a brilliant site !Not only that, but the village of Veryan is so beautiful and has lots of really interesting history, and many listed…

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Imber Lost Village, Wiltshire

St Giles Church, Imber  On Wednesday the 1st January 2014, on our way home from a few days away in the Motorhome at Devizes, we made our first visit ever to the Lost Village of Imber, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.This village is open for a few days every year and we just never seem to…

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George Routleigh The Watchmaker

On our travels at the beginning of May we came across St Petroc’s Parish Church of Lydford, Devon. It is a Norman church but is founded on an earlier settlement. A small timber church probably stood on the site, built about 650AD. It was dedicated in honour of St. Petroc, a 6th century Celtic missionary…

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