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Egloshayle (eglos meaning church and heyl meaning estuary in Cornish
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
) is a small village situated near the banks of the River Camel
River Camel

The River Camel is a river in Cornwall, UK. It source on the edge of Bodmin Moor and together with its tributaries drains a considerable part of North Cornwall....
 adjacent to Wadebridge
Wadebridge

Wadebridge is a town in North Cornwall, England, UK, located on the River Camel Estuary some 5 miles upstream from Padstow. For many years Wadebridge was a traffic congested town but in 1991 the Wadebridge bypass was opened together with the Egloshayle bypass causing the two settlements to regain much of their former charm....
 in North Cornwall
North Cornwall

North Cornwall is the largest of the six Non-metropolitan district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its council is based in Wadebridge .Other towns in the district include Bude, Bodmin, Launceston, Cornwall, Padstow, and Camelford....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

Egloshayle was a Bronze Age
Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is, with respect to a given prehistory, the period in that society when the most advanced metalworking included smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifact s....
 settlement and later a river port, rivalling Padstow
Padstow

Padstow is a small town, civil parish and cargo port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies within the administrative district of North Cornwall....
 a little over five miles downriver. The trade consisted of tin
Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. Tin is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite, where it occurs as an oxide, SnO2....
, clay
Clay

Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained minerals, which show plasticity through a variable range of water content, and which can be hardened when dried and/or fired....
, wool
Wool

Wool is the fiber derived from the specialized skin cells, called follicles, of animals in the Caprinae family, principally domestic sheep, but the hair of certain species of other Mammalia such as cashmere goat, llamas, rabbits and keeshonds may also be called wool....
, and vegetable crops. It is now a busy rural village. The parish of Egloshayle was (with St Breock) one of those within which the town of Wadebridge developed.






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Egloshayle (eglos meaning church and heyl meaning estuary in Cornish
Cornish language

The Cornish language is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages. The language continued to function as a community language in parts of Cornwall until the late 18th century, and there have been attempts to revive the language since the early 20th century....
) is a small village situated near the banks of the River Camel
River Camel

The River Camel is a river in Cornwall, UK. It source on the edge of Bodmin Moor and together with its tributaries drains a considerable part of North Cornwall....
 adjacent to Wadebridge
Wadebridge

Wadebridge is a town in North Cornwall, England, UK, located on the River Camel Estuary some 5 miles upstream from Padstow. For many years Wadebridge was a traffic congested town but in 1991 the Wadebridge bypass was opened together with the Egloshayle bypass causing the two settlements to regain much of their former charm....
 in North Cornwall
North Cornwall

North Cornwall is the largest of the six Non-metropolitan district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Its council is based in Wadebridge .Other towns in the district include Bude, Bodmin, Launceston, Cornwall, Padstow, and Camelford....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

Egloshayle was a Bronze Age
Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is, with respect to a given prehistory, the period in that society when the most advanced metalworking included smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifact s....
 settlement and later a river port, rivalling Padstow
Padstow

Padstow is a small town, civil parish and cargo port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It lies within the administrative district of North Cornwall....
 a little over five miles downriver. The trade consisted of tin
Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. Tin is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite, where it occurs as an oxide, SnO2....
, clay
Clay

Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained minerals, which show plasticity through a variable range of water content, and which can be hardened when dried and/or fired....
, wool
Wool

Wool is the fiber derived from the specialized skin cells, called follicles, of animals in the Caprinae family, principally domestic sheep, but the hair of certain species of other Mammalia such as cashmere goat, llamas, rabbits and keeshonds may also be called wool....
, and vegetable crops. It is now a busy rural village. The parish of Egloshayle was (with St Breock) one of those within which the town of Wadebridge developed. The Vicar of Egloshayle (Thomas Lovibond) was responsible for the construction of the first bridge across the River Camel (replacing the dangerous ford).

Notable buildings and antiquities

"Kelly Rounds" (or Castle Killibury) is an Iron Age
Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....
 fort on the border of the parish and has been associated with the legend of King Arthur
King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
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The parish church, named after St Petroc, is built almost entirely in the Perpendicular
Perpendicular

In geometry, two line or plane , are considered perpendicular to each other if they form congruence adjacent angles angles . The term may be used as a noun or adjective....
 style. It has a Norman
Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries....
 font, a stone pulpit dating from the 15th century, and also has a fine monument to Dame Barbara Molesworth (ob. 1735).

The Anglican chapel at Washaway, dating from 1882, has a font which is one of the earliest in the county. Local private properties of interest include Pencarrow House (18th century) and Croan House (17th century], each of which have seven bays
Bay (architecture)

A bay is a unit in architecture. This unit is defined as the zone between the outside edges of an engaged column, pilaster, post, or vertical wall area....
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The bellringers of the village are celebrated in the song The Ringers of Egloshayle . The ringers named in the song are all buried in the churchyard of the village church and their names may been seen on the headstones. The song has been recorded by, amongst others, the well-known Cornish singer Brenda Wootton
Brenda Wootton

Brenda Wootton was a Cornwall poetess and folk music and was seen as an ambassador for Cornish people tradition and culture.She began her musical career as a young schoolgirl, singing in village halls throughout the remote communities of west Cornwall....
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