Kilkhampton

Kilkhampton
Kilkhampton is located in Cornwall
Kilkhampton
Kilkhampton
Location within Cornwall
Population1,368 (Civil Parish, 2011)
OS grid referenceSS253113
Civil parish
  • Kilkhampton
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBUDE
Postcode districtEX23
Dialling code01288
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cornwall
50°52′30″N 4°29′02″W / 50.875°N 4.484°W / 50.875; -4.484
St James' Church, Kilkhampton
Bevil Grenville's memorial, in Kilkhampton church

Kilkhampton (Cornish: Kylgh)[1] is a village and civil parish in northeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is on the A39 about four miles (6 km) north-northeast of Bude.[2]

Penstowe Castle

Kilkhampton was mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Chilchetone". The population of the parish was 1,193 in the 2001 census.[3] This increased to 1,368 in the 2011 census [4]

The remains of a late Norman period motte-and-bailey castle known as Penstowe Castle are located 500 metres west of the village. Further west, at Stowe is the site of Stowe House, the grand mansion of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, built in 1680 but demolished in 1739: some of the stonework was reused at Penstowe, also in the parish.[5]

Kilkhampton has a post office, a primary school, and a community centre called the Grenville Rooms. There are three general stores, two pubs, and a selection of shops including an electrical goods store. There is also a MOT test station and an agricultural supply depot. The village was surveyed for the Survey of English Dialects[citation needed].

A crater on Mars has been named Kilkhampton.

  1. ^ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 Bude & Clovelly ISBN 978-0-319-23145-6
  3. ^ [1] GENUKI website. Retrieved April 2001
  4. ^ "2011 census. Retrieved Feb 2015".
  5. ^ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books