Description

Lanivet, a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands 2 3/4 miles SW by S of Bodmin station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Bodmin; money order office. Higher Bore Street; telegraph office, Bodmin. The parish contains also the hamlets of Bodwanick, Lamorick, Tremoore, Nanstalton, Tregullon, Fenton Pits, Trebell, and St Lawrence. Acreage, 5425: population, 981. St Benet's is a chief residence, and has been formed by restoring and modernizing parts of an ancient monastery. The monastery is supposed to have been a cell of Monte Casino Abbey, near Naples; the cloisters have been taken down; the main buildings are incorporated with the present mansion; and both these and a ruined tower are apparently of Later English character. The adjacent tract is a richly-wooded vale amid a bleak country. There are a few tin streams. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro; value, £450 with residence. The church is ancient, has a tower, and stands embosomed in trees. The churchyard contains two ancient stone crosses, 10 and 11 feet high. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels, and charities of the value of £156, accruing from the monastery lands.