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Towns (6)

Bodmin                                                    
Bude/Stratton              
Camelford                   
Launceston                  
Padstow                      
Wadebridge  

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Main Villages (32)

Altarnun/Five Lanes is an attractive village that nestles in a sheltered valley on the north -eastern edge of Bodmin Moor, just off of the A30. It has a picturesque "bridge over stream" postcard look, and the village is dominated by the tower of the 15th Century church of St Nonna's, which was known as 'The Cathedral of the Moor'.
Blisland is another picture postcard village that lies on the western edge of Bodmin Moor. The village green is surrounded by Victoria and Georgian houses as well as delightful cottages and another 15th Century church this time that of St Protus and St Hyacinth.
Boscastle                      
Coads Green
Delabole                       
Egloskerry
Kilkhampton
Lanivet
Lewannick is a hilltop village with commanding views out over Bodmin Moor towards Fox Tor. Here can be found the 13th Century church of St Martin which was rebuilt after a fire in 1890.
Marhamchurch is a quiet and quaint village of thatched cob cottages and the 14th Century church of St Marwenna with its magnificent old oak door and 'sanctuary knocker', can be found here.
Nanstallon
North Hill
Petherwin Gate
Polzeath    
Port Gaverne                     
Port Isaac                     
Poughill near Bude is pronounced 'poffle', it is a village of pretty flowers and thatched roofs. The Church of Danish St Olaf is located here.
Rock/Tredizzick            
St Breward   St Breward parish covers an extensive area of Bodmin Moor and St Breward village, at about 700ft, is the highest village in Cornwall.
St Breward parish is home to two of the counties best known landmarks. They are Roughtor and Brown Willy. Bodmin moor is well known for its granite and china clay industries and has been used for centuries to build local houses and churches and stone from the De Lank Quarry stone was used for important and famous landmarks such has the Eddystone LightHouse built in 1882 and the Beachy Head Lighthouse built in 1900 and of course London's Tower Bridge built in 1890. St Breward boasts the highest Church in the County as well as the highest and only pub aptly
named the The Old Inn has its been open for nearly two centuries. The village has a post office, a friendly shop and a visitor information centre,
The parish also contains some of Bodmin Moors most spectacular scenery and is the start or finishing point of the Camel Trail and of course the legendary beast of the moor dwells in these parts (allegedly).
St Kew Highway
St Issey
St Mabyn is a hilltop village that is reached by narrow lanes. It consists of old cottages gathered around the village pub. Here can be found the 15th Century church of St Mabena, the doorway of which is made from slate from St Merryn.
St Merryn/Shop is a  village with slate-built cottages and inn around the low towered medieval church of St Marina. Just a short way  from here can be found the dramatic Trevose Head, with it's lighthouse.
Stratton consists of narrow streets and a partly-Norman church. Here can be found the The Tree Inn, Legendary birthplace of Anthony Payne, "The Cornish Giant" who was famed for the Royalist victory at Stamford Hill in 1643.
St Teath is easily accessed from the Allen valley. It is a pretty village with a clock tower in the centre and the cottages are built from local Delabole slate. Churchyard, with magnificent carved Celtic cross.
St Tudy  is a tranquil village with pretty cottages and the odd craft shop and a beautiful 15th Church made from Delabole slate.
South Petherwin
Stoke Climsland
Venterdon
Tintagel
Trebetherick                 
Tregadillet
Trevone                         
Warbstow Cross
Week St Mary again a quiet village, was once of some importance, being the site of a Norman fortress. Here lies a 15th Century church and a free grammar school that was founded in 1508 by one Thomasine Bonaventure, a village girl of poor stature, who eventually became Dame Percyval, Lady Mayoress of London.
Whitstone

 

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Minor Villages (62)

Bangors
Bodieve
Bolventor is a village in the centre of Bodmin Moor, were can be found Jamaica Inn, dating from 1547, and made famous by Daphne du Maurier. The village and inn were the focus of several smuggling routes, one of which is a tunnel that runs from beneath the inn for over seven miles, to the coast, allegedly. Again more breathtaking views across the moor can be drunk with the eyes and close to here can be found Dozmary Pool, where legend declares Sir Bedevere hurled King Arthur's sword Excalibur, after the Battle of Camlann and where the Lady of the Lake came forth to reclaim Excalibur.
Boyton
Bray Shop
Burlawn
Canworthy Water
Cardinham
Chapel Amble
Constantine Bay                   
Daws House
Downgate
Grimscott
Hallworthy
Harlyn
Helland
Helstone
Higher Crackington
Jacobstow
Lady Cross
Laneast
Langore
Lawhitton
Lezant
Little Petherick
Longstone
Luckett
Marshgate
Millpool
Minions  is the highest village in all of Cornwall. Here can be found the balancing rocks of the world famous Cheese wring and the Hurlers, which is a Bronze Age stone circle.
North Tamerton
Otterham Station
Pendoggett
Penrose
Pipers Pool
Polyphant
Port Gaverne
Porthcothan
Rumford
St Eval is near Newquay airport and the 15th Century church of St Uvelus, which stands alone on a high hill, used its tower as a beacon to guide the aircraft pilots who landed at the nearby airfield at St Mawgan. 
St Minver is a quaint little village with with the focus around the church of St Minefreda. Nearby here on the lowlands  Jesus' Well can be found, the waters of which are said to have great healing powers.
Shop(Morwenstow)
Sladesbridge
Stibb
Trebullet
Treburley
Tregoodwell
Trekenner
Treknow
Trelights
Treskinnick Cross
Tresmeer
Tresparrett
Treveighan
Trewarmett
Trewint wherein can be found Wesley's Cottage. Here John Wesley often used to preach and rest in the aforementioned cottage, which now houses many relics of early Methodism.
Treyarnon                       
Wainhouse Corner
Whitecross
Widemouth Bay             
Woodford
Yeolmbridge

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Hamlets and other settlements and places (39)

Advent
Bodmin Moor  is a wild and windswept  granite moor land that is breathtaking. The most magnificent views over North Cornwall are enjoyed from the summit of Roughtor, or alternatively from a micro-lite flight  from Davidstow Moor, which is best approached via Camelford. Brown Willy, at 1377ft, is Cornwall's highest point, and there is an abundance of Neolithic and Bronze Age remains, including stone circles and menhirs, to be found all over this area.. King Arthurs hall is said to be here and out near the clay works is a druid stone circle. Here on the moor you will find the Cardinham Woods, Colliford Lake and Dozmary pool.
Bossiney
Bude Haven
Calstock
Carbis Bay
Cardinham
Constantine
Crackington Haven
Davidstow
Downinney
Egloshayle
Egloskerry  is a neat and tidy village with some pretty and interesting cottages. Here can be found the15th Century church of St Keri and St Petroc.
Forrabury
Helland
Jacobstow
Kilkhampton
Laneast   is an attractive moor land hamlet that has a large forestry managed area and  lies above the scenic Inney Vale. Here also is the birthplace of John Couch Adams, the astronomer whom discovered the planet Neptune.
Lanhydrock
Lanteglos
Launcells
Lesnewth
Michaelstow
Minster
Morwenstow is as far as we go and here can be found the Church of St John Baptist. The church was administered by the eccentric Parson Hawker, who spent 40 odd years in these parts serving 'a mixed multitude of smugglers, wreckers and dissenters.' Parson Hawker is best remembered for his poem "The Song of the Western Men", with is famous for the line "And shall Trelawney die?" and which has now become the Kernow National anthem.
North Petherwin
Port Quin
Poundstock is approximately six miles south of Bude and about a quarter of a mile inland from Widemouth bay. It is a small village with a 14th Century church. That of St Winwaloe, which lies in a secluded dell by a stream. Here also is a 15th Century Gildhouse, apparently the only one in Cornwall, and it has a magnificent Royal Coat of Arms.
South Petherwin
St Breock is a village with a 13th Century church. A slab in the churchyard remembers wicked Jan Tregeagle, chief steward of Lanhydrock, whose legendary punishments included emptying Dozmary Pool with a leaking limpet shell. Nearby St Breock Downs with its megalithic stones, including a cromlech and superb views from the Beacon.
St Clether  is a small hamlet situated in the lovely Inney Vale. Here can be found a beautifully located Holy Well that dates back to the Celts.
St Endellion (St Endellentia)
St Gennys is a quiet hamlet high on the cliff tops near Crackington. From here one can enjoy breathtaking views of the coast. The tiny church of St Gennys has a rare altar tabernacle and a fascinating churchyard with graves of shipwrecked sailors.
St Giles in the Heath
St Juliot  is located on the North Cornwall coast; it is bounded on the north by St Gennys, on the east by Otterham, on the south by Davidstow and Lesnewth, and on the west by Minster, Forrabury and the Bristol Channel. The Jordan river runs west down a steep valley to emerge at Boscastle. The church was the meeting place of the writer Thomas Hardy and Emma Gifford, his first wife. Beeney and Tresparret are the villages of the parish. The parish church was dedicated to St Julitta (Juliot, Julyot, Juletta). It is said that She suffered death, having been accused by a wicked and violent person who had previously taken from her by force some major possession. Because of poor maintenance the church was closed in 1868 for reconstruction and as a consequence only the original 15th century south aisle (now forming the nave and chancel) remain. There was also a Bible Christian chapel at nearby Tresparrett.
St Kew is a picturesque little village. Here can be found St Kew church, which boasts the finest medieval stained glass windows in Cornwall.
St Stephen
St Thomas
Trebarwith Strand 
Trevalga
Trewalder is a secluded hamlet in the parish of St Teath.
Washaway is a little hamlet on the A389 between Bodmin and Camelford, it has a small church and here can be found the magnificent gardens of Pencarrow House with its tree-lined drive that leads to a magnificent Georgian House and gardens.

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The Electoral Parishes and Wards of North Cornwall

Allan
Egloshayle, St. Breock, St. Mabyn and St. Tudy

Altarnun
Altarnun, North Hill and St Clether

Blisland and St Breward
Blisland, Cardinham, Helland and St Breward

Bodmin St Mary’s
St Mary’s Ward of the Parish of Bodmin

Bodmin St Petroc
St Petroc Ward of the Parish of Bodmin

Bude
Bude Ward of the Parish of Bude-Stratton

Camelford
The Parish of Camelford

Camelot
The parishes of Michaelstow, St Teath and Tintagel

Grenville
The Parishes of Kilkhampton and Morwenstow

Lanivet
The Parishes of Lanhydrock, Lanivet and Withiel

Launceston
The Parish of Launceston

Marhamchurch
The Parishes of Launcells, Marhamchurch and Poundstock

North Petherwin
The Parishes of North Petherwin, St Stephens by Launceston Rural, St Thomas the Apostle Rural and Werrington

Padstow & District
The Parishes of Padstow, St Ervan, St Eval, St Issey and St Merryn

Poughill & Stratton
Poughill & Stratton Ward of the Parish of Bude Stratton

South Petherwin
The Parishes of Lawhitton Rural, Lewannick, South Petherwin and Trewen

St Endellion & St Kew
The Parishes of St Endellion and St Kew

St Minver
The Parishes of St Minver Highlands and St Minver Lowlands

Stoke climsland
The Parishes of Lezant and Stoke climsland

Tremaine
The Parishes of Advent, Davidstow, Egloskerry, Laneast, Otterham, Tremaine, Treneglos, Tresmeer and Warbstow

Valency
The Parishes of Forrabury & Minster, Lesnewth, St Gennys, St Juliot and Trevalga

Wadebridge
The Parish of Wadebridge

Week St Mary & Whitstone
The Parishes of Boyton, Jacobstow, North Tamerton, Week St Mary and Whitstone

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