Tremaine, Cornwall

Tremaine
St Winwaloe church
Tremaine is located in Cornwall
Tremaine
Tremaine
Location within Cornwall
Population53 (Civil Parish, 2011)
OS grid referenceSX237889
Civil parish
  • Tremaine
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLAUNCESTON
Postcode districtPL15
Dialling code01566
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireCornwall
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
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UK
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50°40′23″N 4°29′49″W / 50.673°N 4.497°W / 50.673; -4.497

Tremaine or Tremain (Cornish: Tremen)[1][2][3] is a small village and a rural civil parish in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the Registration District of Launceston and the population in the 2001 census was 87. It had decreased to 53 at the 2011 census.[4] There is also a dairy farm called Ash Grove farm.

The parish is bounded to the north by Warbstow and Jacobstow parishes, to the east by North Petherwin parish, and to the west by Tresmeer and Treneglos parishes.

Tremaine village is 10 miles (16 km) north-west of the town of Launceston near the River Ottery.

The parish church, St Winwaloe's, stands in the village at OS Grid Ref SX234890. It is a Norman building but some of the windows are later insertions. It is a rare survival in Cornwall of a church consisting only of nave and chancel. The tower is at the west end. The font is Norman and similar to the font of Egloskerry.[5] St Winwaloe is one of the smallest parish churches in Cornwall measuring just 12 feet wide and 44 feet long. It is named after St Winwaloe who was born of Cornish parents in 457AD. The stone building was built in the 11 century by the Bottereaux family and the church's tower was added in the 14 century.

  1. ^ "Gazetteer - A-Z of Cornish towns and villages". Cornwall Guide. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Polisi Henwyn Tyller" (PDF). Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  3. ^ "List of Place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel". Place names in the SWF. Cornish Language Partnership. Archived from the original (pdf) on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  4. ^ 2011 Census Note ONS raw data (as opposed to this County Council figure) is for an area 'too small to publish all data for reasons of confidentiality of living people' its parish data being combined with Treneglos into output area E00095798 so more demographic statistics will become available in a few decades from 2011
  5. ^ Beacham, Peter & Pevsner, Nikolaus (2014) Cornwall. (The Buildings of England.) New Haven: Yale University Press; pp. 646-47