St Pinnock
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St Pinnock is a hamlet and civil parish in south-east 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
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. The parish is in the Liskeard Registration District and the population in the 2001 census was 621.

To the north, the parish is bordered by St Cleer
St Cleer
St Cleer is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated on the southeast flank of Bodmin Moor approximately two miles north of Liskeard....

 and St Neot parishes, to the east by Dobwalls and Trewidland
Dobwalls and Trewidland
Dobwalls and Trewidland is a civil parish in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom.The parish is bounded to the north by St Neot and St Cleer parishes, to the east by Liskeard and Menheniot parishes, to the south by Morval parish, to the west by the East Looe River and the parishes of St Pinnock and...

 parish, to the south by Lanreath
Lanreath
Lanreath is a civil parish and a village in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated five miles west-northwest of Looe. The name Lanreath means 'church of Raydhogh' and it has been known variously as Lanreythow, Lanrathew, or Lanrethou...

 and Duloe
Duloe, Cornwall
Duloe is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately four miles south of Liskeard at .-Parish church:...

 parishes and to the west by Broadoak parish.

St Pinnock hamlet is just over a mile (2 km) south of Dobwalls
Dobwalls
Dobwalls is a village in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated three miles west of Liskeard.The name is spelt Dubwalls on Bartholomew's map and Black's Guide of 1879....

 and 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Liskeard
Liskeard
Liskeard is an ancient stannary and market town and civil parish in south east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Liskeard is situated approximately 20 miles west of Plymouth, west of the River Tamar and the border with Devon, and 12 miles east of Bodmin...

. Other settlements in the parish include East Taphouse
East Taphouse
East Taphouse is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the civil parish of St Pinnock, one mile west of Doublebois on the A390 Liskeard to St Austell road. A little further west are the hamlets of Middle Taphouse and West Taphouse....

, and Penfrane. The parish church is dedicated to St Pinnock
Winnoc
Saint Winnoc was an abbot or prior of Wormhout who came from Wales. Three lives of this saint are extant. The best of these, the first life, was written by a monk of St. Bertin in the middle of the ninth century, or perhaps a century earlier.St. Winnoc is generally called a Breton, but the...

and is located at .

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