Description
Mabyn, St, a village and a parish in Cornwall. The village stands 2 miles from Highway station on the North Cornwall railway, and 5 NNW of Bodmin station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Bodmin; money order and telegraph office, Wadebridge. Acreage of parish, 4101; population, 628. Colquite was the seat of the Marneys. Tredethy is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Truro ; value, £670 with residence. The church is ancient, and has a pinnacled tower 80 feet high. The building was thoroughly restored in 1889. There are Wesleyan and Methodist chapels. The Rev. Charles Peters, the author of a " Dissertation on Homer and Job," was rector from 1726 to 1774.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
