Description

Broadoak or Bradock, a parish in Cornwall, 2 miles SSW of Doublebois station on the G.W.R., and 4 NE by E of Lostwithiel. It includes West Taphouse hamlet, and its post town and money order office is Lostwithiel; telegraph office, Doublebois station. Acreage, 3404; population, 285. The manor was held at Domesday by Robert, Earl of Mortaime. Broadoak Down was the scene of the defeat in 1643 of the Parliamentarians under Ruthven by the Royalists under Hopton. The living is a rectory annexed to the rectory of Boconnoc in the diocese of Exeter. The church is good, and has an ancient font. It was restored in 1887, and a new organ was presented in the same year by Colonel C. D. Fortescue. There is a Wesleyan chapel at West Taphouse.