Description

Crantock, a parish in Cornwall, on the coast, at the mouth of the river Gannel, 9 miles WSW of St Columb-Major, and 2 from Newquay station on a branch of the G.W.R. Post town, Grampound Road; money order and telegraph office, Newquay. Acreage, 2552, of which 95 are water; population, 321. Treago and Tregonell were old seats of respectively the Mynorses and the Tregonells. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; value, £71 with residence. Patron, Lord Churston. The church belonged to a college, founded here by the Bishops of Bodmin before the Conquest, and is good.