St Columb Minor, Cornwall

Description
Columb-Minor, St, a parish in Cornwall, on the coast, 5 miles W by S of St Columb-Major, and 2 from Newquay station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage, 5780 of land and 811 of tidal water and foreshore ; population, 3056. The rocks include good shelly sandstone. A blow-hole, with a high jet of water in certain states of the tide, is at the small harbour of Lower St Columb-Porth. A priory was founded at Rialton, near the church, about the end of the 15th century, by Thomas Vyvyan, and some interesting remains of it were lately extant, but are now much mutilated. Rialton gave title to the statesman, Sidney Godolphin. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; net value, £250. Patron, Lord Churston. The church is large and good; it was thoroughly restored in 1887. Newquay, the well-known watering-place and health resort, is in this parish. See NEWQUAY.