St Just in Roseland
- Not to be confused with St Just
| St Just in Roseland | |
| Cornwall | |
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 St Just, looking across to St Just Creek | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | Expression error: Unexpected < operator.&y=Expression error: Unexpected < operator.&z=120 50.181641 |
| Location: | 50°10’54"N, 5°-0’33"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | TR2 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cornwall |
St Just in Roseland is a village on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall. It is a small place, which may be found six miles south of Truro and two miles north of St Mawes.
The parish population in 2011 was 1,158.
St Just in Roseland is famous for its 13th-century church St Just’s Church, St Just in Roseland set in riverside gardens luxuriantly planted with semitropical shrubs and trees, many of which are species rare in Britain.
The church perches on the edge of a tidal creek beside the Carrick Roads on the Fal Estuary just outside the main village. The path from the road to the church is lined with granite blocks carved with quotations and verses taken from the Bible. There is also a Methodist church which is Grade II listed: it dates from the first half of the 19th century.
St Just in Roseland is within the 'Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty', as is almost a third of the county.
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The church of St Just -
Churchyard of St Just
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about St Just in Roseland) |