Week St Mary
Coordinates: 50°44′46″N 4°30′00″W / 50.746°N 4.500°W
Week St Mary (Cornish: Gwig Sen Maria) is a civil parish and village in northeast Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated south of Bude close to the River Tamar and the border between Cornwall and Devon in the Hundred of Stratton.
Week St Mary has a 14th - 15th century parish church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin and the tower contains a ring of six bells.[1][2] The parish is in the diocese of Truro.
Parts of the college founded here by Thomasine Bonaventure have been converted into a farmhouse.
[edit] Geography
The parish covers an area of 6,123 acres (24.78 km2) or 9.6 square miles (24.8 km2), and has a population of 550, according to the 2001 census.[3]
The parish contains 2 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), both noted for their biological interest. Brendonmoor SSSI was notified in 1990[4] and Greenamoor SSSI, also a nature reserve jointly owned by Plantlife and Cornwall Wildlife Trust, was designated in 1992.[5][6][7]
[edit] References
- ^ Week St. Mary Village Community Web Site
- ^ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books
- ^ GENUKI: Week St Mary
- ^ "Brendonmoor". Natural England. 1990. http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1005925.pdf. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- ^ "Greenamoor". Natural England. 1992. http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1006514.pdf. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ "Greena Moor (Creddacott Meadows) Nature Reserve". Cornwall Wildlife Trust. http://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/nature_reserves/where_to_find_the_nature_reserves_1/Greena_Moor_nature_reserve.htm. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ "Greena Moor". Plantlife. http://www.plantlife.org.uk/nature_reserves/greena_moor. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
[edit] External links
Media related to Week St Mary at Wikimedia Commons
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