Ludgvan

Coordinates: 50°08′38″N 5°29′42″W / 50.144°N 5.495°W / 50.144; -5.495

Ludgvan Parish Church
Vegetable crop south of Ludgvan

Ludgvan (/ˈlʌdʒən/ LUJ-ən; Cornish: Lujuan)[1] is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is 2 1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) northeast of Penzance. Ludgvan village is physically split between the area known as Churchtown, situated on the hill, and Lower Quarter to the east, adjoining Crowlas.[2] For the purposes of local government, Ludgvan elects a parish council every four years and the principal local authority is Cornwall Council. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 3,250,[3] whereas the electoral ward population which also covers the above plus the surroundings up to the North Cornish Coast at Zennor was 4,145 at the same census.[4]

The village has an Old Cornwall Society.

History

Like many communities in Cornwall the legendary origins of Ludgvan are attributed to the arrival of its patron saint, in this case Saint Ludowanus. However, the place-name appears to derive from the Cornish for place of ashes or burnt place.[5] Ludgvan was mentioned in the Domesday Book (under the name of Luduhan)[5] as falling within the manor of Ludgvan Lese, which at the time of record covered more of what is now the Penwith district including some parts of the modern parish of St Ives.[6] The Lords of the manor of Ludgvan Lese kept certain shipping rights within the port of St Ives up to and possibly beyond the 19th-century. Ludgvan Lease now exists as a hamlet within the parish. At the time of Domesday Book the manor had 3 hides of land and land for 15 or 30 ploughs. It was held by Richard from Robert, Count of Mortain; there were 12 ploughs, 8 serfs, 14 villeins and 40 smallholders. There were 300 acres of pasture, 27 unbroken mares, 22 cattle, 17 pigs and 140 sheep. The value of the manor was £3 sterling though it had formerly been worth £5.[7]

On 12 January 1319, probate records indicate that the Church of St. Ludevon was in the town of Treguwal.[8] Perhaps Treguwal (etymology: Tre = farm, place; Guwal, gweal = arable land) is either the nearby village of Gulval or a medieval name of Ludgvan's lower quarter.

Parish church

The church is dedicated to Saint Ludowanus and later jointly with Saint Paul the Apostle. It is probable that the original idea of a Saint Ludgvan began in the eleventh century. In 1316 it was referred to in probate records as the Church of St. Ludevon[9] The church was rededicated in 1336. Early spellings of the place-name vary between forms with and without 'Saint' referencing and differentiating the church and its surrounding churchtown. The building was originally cruciform and Norman but was rebuilt in the 15th-century with a tower. In 1840 a south aisle replaced the previous transept and porch. The feast traditionally celebrated in the parish is the Sunday nearest to 22 January.[10] The last church services conducted in Cornish were in Ludgvan in the late 17th-century (this claim is also made for Towednack).

Tremenheere

A group of walkers near Lower Tremenheere

At Tremenheere is the Tremenheere Sculpture Garden.[11] The meaning of Tremenheere is "Standing Stone Farm" (Tre = place/farm, Menhir = standing stone) and there is another place of the same name in St Keverne.[12] The family of Tremenheere derive their name from the estate they held at Tremenheere from medieval times.[13] Their coat of arms is "Sable three Doric columns palewise Azure" with the Cornish motto: "Thrugscryssough ne Deu a nef".[14]

Sport

Ludgvan AFC currently play in the Jolly's Cornwall Combination League at their home ground of Fairfield.[15]

Notable residents

Legends

It has been claimed that Ludgvan was the home of the last native wolf in Great Britain.[20] This cannot be confirmed by available historical sources.

References

  1. ↑ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.
  2. ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  3. ↑ "Civil parish population census 2011". Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Ward population at 2011 census". Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  5. 1 2 Mills, A. D. (1996). The Popular Dictionary of English Place-Names. Parragon Book Service Ltd and Magpie Books. p. 217. ISBN 0-7525-1851-8.
  6. ↑ Thorn, C. et al. (eds.) (1979) Cornwall. (Domesday Book; 10) Chichester: Phillimore
  7. ↑ Thorn, C. et al. (eds.) (1979) Cornwall. (Domesday Book; 10) Chichester: Phillimore; entry 5,3,27
  8. ↑ https://archive.org/details/calendarofinquis06grea
  9. ↑ http://archive.org/stream/calendarofinquis06grea/calendarofinquis06grea_djvu.txt
  10. ↑ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 10
  11. ↑ "Tremenheere Sculpture Garden". Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  12. ↑ "Tremenheere". Cornwall's archaeological heritage. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  13. ↑ "Tremenheere". House of Names. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
  14. ↑ Pascoe, W. H. (1979) A Cornish Armory. Padstow: Lodenek Press; p. 109
  15. ↑ "Hurlers and Saints go safely through". The Cornishman. 29 October 2015. p. 68.
  16. ↑ Dudgeon, Piers (1991) The English Vicarage Garden
  17. ↑ Hosking, James (1970) To America and Back with James Hosking, 1811; ed. James M. Hosking. St Buryan: the editor (The text is reproduced in facsimile from Narrative of a Voyage from England to the United States of North America; with travels through part of eight of the states ... Penzance: pr. f. the author by T. Vigurs, 1813)
  18. ↑ Courtney, W. P. (1894). "Oliver, William (1695–1764), physician and philanthropist, by W. P. Courtney Published 1894". Dictionary of National Biography; Vol. XXXXII. Smith, Elder & Co. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  19. ↑ Re: Robert Trewhella, b 1836 – Zennor; GenForum
  20. ↑ Robert Hunt in Popular Romances of the West of England see "Wolves in Great Britain".

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