Manaccan, Cornwall - Church - real photo postcard c.1940s

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• Picture / Image:  Manaccan Church, Cornwall - real photo type
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• Notes / condition: very mild wear

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Manaccan (/məˈnækən/; Cornish: Manahan)[1] is a civil parish and village on the Lizard peninsula in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about five miles (8 km) south-southwest of Falmouth.[2]

Manaccan parish is in a district known as Meneage which means 'land of the monks', a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish is bordered to the north by the Helford River (a drowned river valley or ria), to the west by St Martin-in-Meneage parish, to the south by St Keverne parish, and to the east by St Anthony-in-Meneage parish. The origin of the name Manaccan is probably derived not from a saint but from the Cornish for (church) of the monks. It was also at times called Minster in English because it must once have had a Celtic monastery. "St Manacca" is recorded as the patron saint as early as 1308.[3]

The population of Manaccan was 321 in the 2011 census,[4] an increase from 299 in the 2001 census.[5]

Manaccan lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.

The parish church is dedicated to St Mannacus and St Dunstan. It is a grade I listed building[6] There was a Norman church here and fragments of it remain; the doorway is one of the best specimens of Norman entrances in Cornwall.[7] The rest of the structure is of the 13th and 15th centuries. The west tower is built of slate.[8] The church is well known for a large and flourishing fig-tree which is growing out of the western part of the south wall of the church. It has been there for at least 250 years.[9]

Boden Vean Fogou was rediscovered by a local farmer in the 1990s and was excavated by archaeologists in 2003[10] and in September and October 2008.