Roche, Cornwall

Roche in 2005

Roche (/roʊtʃ/, "roach";[1] Cornish: Tregarrek, meaning homestead of the rock) is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village gets its name from the 20-metre (66-foot) high Roche Rock, a quartz-schorl outcrop east of the village. Roche is the Norman-French word for Rock. The parish population at the 2011 census including Belowda, Bilberry, Carbis, Coldvreath and Criggan is 3,381,[2] and the ward population at the same census was 3,867.[3]

Nearby are the towns of Bodmin and St Austell, as well as the Eden Project. The civil servant Charles Knight was born in Roche and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament Matthew Taylor retired there.

  1. ^ "Roche, Cornwall with the tiny hermit rock chapel". Cornwall-calling.co.uk. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Parish population 2011". Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Ward population 2011". Ukcensusdata.com. Retrieved 12 August 2017.