Perranzabuloe
Perranzabuloe is a coastal civil parish and a hamlet in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hamlet (containing the parish church) is just over a mile (2 km) south of the main settlement of the parish, Perranporth and seven miles (11 km) south-southwest of Newquay.[1][2] The parish population was 5,382 in the 2001 census.[3]
The name of the parish comes from the medieval Latin Perranus in Sabulo meaning Piran in the sand. Piran (the patron saint of Cornwall) was a Christian evangelist who founded a church in the seventh century near the coast north of Perranporth. The ruins of this church were rediscovered in the 20th century. The medieval parish church of Perranzabuloe was over a long period completely lost in sand dunes. A new church had to be built further away from the coast.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 204 Truro & Falmouth ISBN 9780319231494
- ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin ISBN 9780319229385
- ↑ [1] GENUKI website; Perranzabuloe; retrieved May 2010