| 词条 | Manaccan |
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Manaccan parish is in a district known as Meneage which means 'land of the monks', a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish is bordered to the north by the Helford River (a drowned river valley or ria), to the west by St Martin-in-Meneage parish, to the south by St Keverne parish, and to the east by St Anthony-in-Meneage parish. The origin of the name Manaccan is probably derived not from a saint but from the Cornish for (church) of the monks. It was also at times called Minster in English because it must once have had a Celtic monastery. "St Manacca" is recorded as the patron saint as early as 1308.[3] The population of Manaccan was 321 in the 2011 census,[4] an increase from 299 in the 2001 census.[5] Manaccan lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park. Buildings and antiquitiesThe parish church is dedicated to St Mannacus and St Dunstan. It is a grade I listed building[6] There was a Norman church here and fragments of it remain; the doorway is one of the best specimens of Norman entrances in Cornwall.[7] The rest of the structure is of the 13th and 15th centuries. The west tower is built of slate.[8] The church is well known for a large and flourishing fig-tree which is growing out of the western part of the south wall of the church. It has been there for at least 250 years.[9] Boden Vean Fogou was rediscovered by a local farmer in the 1990s and was excavated by archaeologists in 2003[10] and in September and October 2008. GeologyIn 1791 William Gregor discovered titanium in the stream that runs through the valley just south of the village. The location is commemorated by a plaque placed next to the bridge. The mineral ilmenite, an iron titanium oxide, was a constituent of the ore identified by William Gregor; it has an alternative name manaccanite, derived from Manaccan. Notable people
References1. ^Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515071635/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 |date=15 May 2013 }}. Cornish Language Partnership. 2. ^Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth {{ISBN|978-0-319-23149-4}} 3. ^Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; pp. 152-53 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/Manaccan/index.html#Population|title=Parish population 2011|accessdate= 10 February 2015}} 5. ^ GENUKI website; Manaccan; retrieved April 2010 6. ^{{National Heritage List for England|num=1328590|desc=Church of Saint Manacca|grade=I|date=1957-07-10|access-date=8 December 2018}} 7. ^ GENUKI website; Manaccan; retrieved April 2010 8. ^Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed. Penguin Books; pp. 112-13 9. ^ GENUKI website; Manaccan; retrieved May 2010 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/20763/news/higher_boden_fogou.html|title=Higher Boden Fogou|last=Modern Antiquarian (The)|accessdate=1 June 2009}} External links{{Commons category|Manaccan}}
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