Veryan, Cornwall

Description
Veryan, a parish in Cornwall, on the coast, 3 1/2 miles S of Tregony, and 8 1/2 S of Grampound Road station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Grampound Road; money order and telegraph office, Ruan High Lanes. Acreage, 5716; population, 1259. The manor was known at Domesday as Elerkie, and belonged then to the Earl of Mortaigne; it is now the property of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. Veryan Bay is a semi-circular indentation between Nare Head and Dodman Point, measures about 5 miles along the chord, and is engirt with cliffs, exhibiting a fine section of Silurian rocks, in association with traps and conglomerates. Veryan Beacon measures 372 feet in circuit and 370 in height, commands a good view, is traditionally regarded as the burial-place of Gerennins, a king of Cornwall in the 6th century, was opened in 1855, and was then found to contain a kistvaen. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; net value, £299 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Truro. The church was rebuilt in 1848, and is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style. There are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels.