Lewannick
| Lewannick Cornish: Lannwenek | |
| Cornwall | |
|---|---|
 Lewannick Village Hall, War Memorial & Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX276807 |
| Location: | 50°36’4"N, 4°26’17"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 973 (2011) |
| Post town: | Launceston |
| Postcode: | PL15 |
| Dialling code: | 01566 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Cornwall |
Lewannick is a village in Cornwall. The village is to be found five miles southwest of Launceston.
The civil parish had a population of 973 at the 2011 census.
The parish is rural in character.within the Hundred of Wivelshire. It is bounded on the north by Trewen and South Petherwin, on the east by Lezant, on the south by North Hill and on the west by Altarnun.[1]
The parish church is dedicated to St Martin of Tours.
History
Evidence of early mediæval habitation at Lewannick is in the form of two inscribed pillar stones, each having text in both Latin and ogham 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".[2]
Two miles south-west, in the valley of the River Lynher, are the fragmentary remains of the mediæval Upton Castle.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Lewannick) |
References
- ↑ Information on Lewannick from GENUKI
- ↑ See the discussion and bibliography in Elisabeth Okasha, Corpus of Early Christian Inscribed stones of South-west Britain (Leicester: University Press, 1993), pp. 146-53
