St Mabyn

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St.Mabyn

Coordinates: 50.5263° N 4.7639° W
Population	560 in 2001
OS grid reference	SX041732
Parish	St Mabyn
District	North Cornwall
Shire county	Cornwall
Region	South West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BODMIN
Postcode district	PL30
Dial code	01208
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Cornwall
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	North Cornwall
European Parliament	South West England
List of places: UK • England • Cornwall

View of St Mabyn Church

St Mabyn is a village and civil parish situated between Wadebridge and Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England,UK.

The village is named after Saint Mabena, one of the twenty-four children of St Brychan, a Welsh saint and King of Brycheiniog in the 5th century.There are no other villages in the parish of St.Mabyn but there are many small manor houses, including Tregarden, Tredethy, Helligan and Colquite, all built in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The village is centred on the Grade 1 listed 15th century Church of St Mabena. It comprises a chancel and nave with north and south aisles. The arcades each comprise seven four-centred arches of granite, supported on monolith granite pillars with sculptured capitals of St Stephens porcelain stone. There is a south porch, a north door, and priest's door. The tower is 75 feet high and has three stages. It has a parapet with pinnacles.
There used to be a Methodist Free Church chapel, but this is now a private house.

Other village facilities include a post office/shop, a pub, a primary school, a playgroup, a village hall, a village green, a tug o' war team, a garden club, a Young Farmers' group and a King George's Field in memorial to King George V.

The village is surrounded by high quality, undulating farmland. The Allen valley to the north-west contains a number of Cornish Nature Conservation Sites.

Population in 2001 was 560 persons exactly the same as in 1811.[1]