Description
Veep, St, a parish in Cornwall, 4 miles SE of Lostwithiel station on the G.W.R. Post town, Lostwithiel. Acreage, 3111; population, 499. St Cadoc is the seat of the Wymonds. St Cyric's Priory, a cell to Montacute Abbey, was founded in the parish by the Earl of Mortaigne, was the place where the monk W. de Exeter wrote the " Life of Guy, Earl of Warwick," and has left some remains. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; net value, £113. The church is an ancient edifice of stone with an embattled tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Lerryn.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
