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TremaineorTremain(Cornish:Tremen)[1][2][3]is a small village and a ruralcivil parishin eastCornwall,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.
Tremaine
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 St Winwaloe church | |
  Tremaine Location withinCornwall | |
| Population | 53 (Civil Parish, 2011) |
| OS grid reference | SX237889 |
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| Unitary authority | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LAUNCESTON |
| Postcode district | PL15 |
| Dialling code | 01566 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
The parish is bounded to the north byWarbstowandJacobstowparishes, to the east byNorth Petherwinparish, and to the west byTresmeerandTreneglosparishes.
Tremaine village is 10 miles (16 km) north-west of the town ofLauncestonnear theRiver Ottery.
The parish church, St Winwaloe's, stands in the village atOS Grid Ref SX234890.It is aNorman buildingbut 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. Thefontis 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.
See also
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- 3806 Tremaine,an asteroid
References
edit- ^"Gazetteer - A-Z of Cornish towns and villages".Cornwall Guide.Retrieved11 October2017.
- ^"Polisi Henwyn Tyller"(PDF).Retrieved19 August2020.
- ^"List of Place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel".Place names in the SWF.Cornish Language Partnership.Archived fromthe original(pdf)on 15 May 2013.Retrieved30 January2013.
- ^2011 CensusNote 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 withTreneglosinto output area E00095798 so more demographic statistics will become available in a few decades from 2011
- ^Beacham, Peter & Pevsner, Nikolaus (2014)Cornwall.(The Buildings of England.) New Haven: Yale University Press; pp. 646-47
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