Lewannick is a civil parish and village in Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. The village is situated approximately five miles (8 km) southwest of Launceston. The civil parish has a population of 884.

The parish is rural in character and is within the Deanery and Hundred of East

Wivelshire

East Wivelshire and West Wivelshire are two of the ancient Hundreds of Cornwall.East and West must have originally had a Cornish name but it is not recorded - see Lost wydhyel; the second element gwydhyow meaning 'trees' -...

. It is bounded on the north by Trewen

Trewen

Trewen is a hamlet and a civil parish in east Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish is just east of Bodmin Moor in the River Inny valley and lies in the Registration District of Launceston....

 and South Petherwin

South Petherwin

South Petherwin is a village and civil parish in east Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is in the Registration District of Launceston. The civil parish is bounded to the north by the Launceston parishes of St Thomas and St Mary Magdalene, to the east by Lawhitton and Lezant parishes and to the west by...

, on the east by Lezant

Lezant

Lezant is a civil parish and village in east Cornwall, United Kingdom. Lezant village is situated approximately five miles south of Launceston. The population of the parish in the 2001 census was 751.-Geography:...

, on the south by North Hill

North Hill, Cornwall

North Hill is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the east side of the River Lynher approximately six miles southwest of Launceston....

 and on the west by Altarnun

Altarnun

Altarnun is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is located on the north-eastern edge of Bodmin Moor at .The parish of Altarnun includes the village of Fivelanes and the hamlets of Bolventor, Treween and Trewint, and had a population of 976 according to the 2001 census...

. The parish church is dedicated to St Martin

Martin of Tours

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 and is located at .

History

Evidence of early medieval habitation at Lewannick is in the form of two inscribed pillar stones, each having text in both Latin and ogham

Ogham

Ogham is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the Old Irish language, and occasionally the Brythonic language. Ogham is sometimes called the "Celtic Tree Alphabet", based on a High Medieval Bríatharogam tradition ascribing names of trees to the individual letters.There are roughly...

characters; on the basis of the ogham text, these stones have been dated as having been inscribed between the fifth and sixth centuries. One is located in the village churchyard, and was dedicated to a "Ingenuus"; the other has been moved inside to the church nave, and both texts mention an "Ulcagnus".

Two miles south-west, in the valley of the river Lynher, are the fragmentary remains of the medieval Upton Castle.

External links

• Cornwall Record Office online catalogue for Lewannick