Menheniot, Cornwall

Description
Menheniot or Menhynnet, a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands 2 1/2 miles ESE of Liskeard, has a station on the G.W.R., 256 miles from London, and a post and money order office under Liskeard; telegraph office at railway station. Acreage of parish, 7002; population, 1191. The parish council, under the Local Government Act, 1894, consists of eleven members. The manor belonged anciently to the Carminows, and passed to the Trelawneys. A seat of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, was at Tencreek. There once was a lepers' hospital. The rocks include schist, serpentine, and lead and tin ores. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Truro; net value, £500 with residence. Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church is Later English, has a tower and spire, and has been re&toied and enlarged. William of Wykeham, Holwell Carr, who gave his pictures to the National Gallery, and Dr Kennicott, the great Oriental scholar, were vicars.