Marhamchurch, Cornwall - Village shop, herding cattle - postcard c.1970s

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  Marhamchurch Village [Cornwall] - shows the village store and a herd of cows 
• Publisher: TKF Ltd / Golden Shield (printed in Spain)
• Postally used: no
• Stamp:  n/a
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• Notes / condition: odd blemish but very good. Rare 'modern'. 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Marhamchurch (Cornish: Eglosvarwenn) is a civil parish and village in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Marhamchurch village is situated 1 ¹⁄₂ miles (2.4 km) south of Bude off the A39 road.^[1] The Civil Parish population at the 2011 census was 837.^[2]

The name derives from the Celtic Saint Marwenne (Morwenna) who is thought to have founded a hermitage here around the end of the fifth century. Marwenne was one of the twenty-four children of St Brychan, a Welsh saint and king.

Marhamchurch parish church is dedicated to St Marwenne. Most of the present church is of the 14th century; in the 15th century an aisle and porch were added. In the early 15th century the existence of an anchorite's cell occupied by an anchoress called Cecilia Moys is recorded.^[3] Features of interest include the four-holed cresset stone and a Norman quarter-capital (though this is unlikely to be a fragment of the Norman church which may have preceded the present building). St Marwenne was probably the same as Morwenna of Morwenstow. In the 9th century the district was probably on the border between Cornwall and Devon and the farms in the parish have Saxon names unlike those of Poundstock on the other side of the River Neet.^[4]

Marhamchurch was recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) when it was one of several manors held by Hamelin from Robert, Count of Mortain. There was one virgate of land and land for 2 ploughs. There was one plough, 1 serf, 1 villein, 2 smallholders, 20 acres of pasture and 20 sheep. The value of the manor was 6 shillings though it had formerly been worth 10 shillings.^[5]