Landrake

Village in Cornwall, England

Human settlement in England

Landrake

* Cornish: Lannergh

St Michael's Church, Landrake

Landrake

Location within Cornwall

Population| 1,082 (2011 UK census)
OS grid reference| SX374606
Civil parish|

* Landrake with St Erney

Shire county|

* Cornwall

Region|

* South West

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| SALTASH
Postcode district| PL12
Dialling code| 01752
Police| Devon and Cornwall
Fire| Cornwall
Ambulance| South Western
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50°25′21″N 4°17′23″W﻿ / ﻿50.4225°N 4.2896°W﻿ / 50.4225; -4.2896

Landrake (Cornish: Lannergh) is a village in southeast Cornwall, England. It is situated approximately three miles (5 km) west of Saltash, in the civil parish of Landrake with St Erney (where the population of the 2011 census was included.).[1] The A38 road passes through the village.[2]

Landrake has a post office, a shop, a pub named the Bullers Arms, and Sir Robert Geffery's School, a primary school. The school takes its name from Landrake-born Sir Robert Geffery who, in 1704, bequeathed money to set up a trust to educate children of the parish.[3]

## Church

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Monumental brass of Edward Courtenay (d. 1509/10) of Landrake, 2nd son of Sir William I Courtenay (d. 1485) of Powderham, Devon. Landrake Church[4]

Landrake Church is dedicated to St Michael. It stands on a hill and the tower is 100 ft high. Parts of the building are Norman but the majority is of the 15th century. There is a brass to Edward Cowrtney, 1509.[5] The church is a Grade I listed building, having been so designated on 23 January 1968.[6]

King Edmund gave the parish of Landerch to Bishop Burhwold in exchange for land in Devon;[7] in 1018 this gift was confirmed by King Cnut who declared the gift had really been for the benefit of the monastery of St Germans where the bishop had his see. The gift included the parish of Landrake with its chapel of St Erney; these continued to be held by the monastery after the see was moved to Devon. In 1269 a vicarage was established whereby the vicar received the small tithes of Landrake and St Erney and the great tithe was kept by the monastery.[8]

## Notable people

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Francis Rous (1579–1659), an English politician, prominent Puritan and Provost of Eton. For some years he lived in Landrake in seclusion and occupied himself with theological studies.[9]

## See also

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* Cornwall portal

* People from Landrake

## References

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1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3
2. ^ "The Village of Landrake". BBC – Domesday Reloaded: The Village of Landrake. 1986. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
3. ^ Welcome to Sir Robert Geffery's School Sir Robert Geffery's School website; retrieved April 2010
4. ^ Dunkin, E. H. W. The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall, 1882, pp. 24-5 & plate XXI
5. ^ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books; pp. 87-88
6. ^ "Church of St Michael, Landrake with St Erney". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
7. ^ It is not known when the bishop became bishop of Cornwall, the earliest possible date is 1002.
8. ^ Cornish Church Guide. Blackford. 1925. p. 126.
9. ^ Rigg, J.McM. "Rous, Francis" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49\. pp. 316–317\. "see lines 6-7"

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