Description

Lanlivery a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands on an affluent of the river Fowey, 1 1/2 mile WSW of Lostwithiel station on the G.W.R., and 6 S by E of Bodmin. Post town, Lostwithiel. Acreage, 6768; population, 1188. The manor of Restormel belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall. Bestormel Castle here crowns a hill overlooking the wooded valley of the Fowey; was originally a palace of the Norman Earls of Cornwall; stood unroofed and much defaced in the time of Henry VIII.; was, nevertheless, garrisoned by the Parliamentarians against Charles I., and taken by the Royalists in 1644; and is now a circular ivy-mantled ruin, with a gatehouse on the W, a projecting tower on the ENE, and an encompassing deep moat. Bestormel Mine was entered by Queen Victoria when she visited Cornwall. Granite is largely quarried. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; gross value, £230 with residence. The church is ancient, has a fine pinnacled tower, and contains several costly monuments. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels.