St Mawgan

St Mawgan Church
Lanherne House, the manor house of St Mawgan
The Japanese Garden, St Mawgan

St Mawgan or St Mawgan in Pydar (Cornish: Lanherne) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The population of this parish at the 2011 census was 1,307.[1] The village is situated four miles northeast of Newquay, and the parish also includes the hamlet of Mawgan Porth.[2] The surviving manor house known as Lanherne House is an early 16th-century grade I listed building.[3] The nearby Royal Air Force station, RAF St Mawgan, takes its name from the village and is next to Newquay Cornwall Airport. The River Menalhyl runs through St Mawgan village and the valley is known as The Vale of Lanherne.[2] It was the subject of a poem by poet Henry Sewell Stokes.

  1. ^ "2011 census for Mawgan in Pydar". Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  2. ^ a b Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin ISBN 978-0-319-22938-5
  3. ^ Listed building text