Description

Egloskerry, a parish in Cornwall, on an affluent of the river Tamar, 4 1/2 miles WNW of Launceston on the G.W.R., and 16 N of Liskeard. There is a station of the North Cornwall railway. It has a post and money order office (R.S.O.); telegraph office at the station. Acreage, 3262; population of the civil parish, 470; of the ecclesiastical, with Tremaine, 580. Penheale was the seat of the Speccots, and is now held by the Simcoe family. Blue felspar and manganese occur. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Tremaine, in the diocese of Truro; net value, £130 with residence. The church is ancient and interesting, and has a tower; it was restored in 1887.