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OS grid reference
  
SX079591

Ceremonial county
  
Cornwall

Country
  
England

Dialling code
  
01208

Unitary authority
  
Cornwall

Civil parish
  
Lanlivery

Region
  
South West

Local time
  
Sunday 4:04 PM

UK parliament constituency
  
South East Cornwall

Lanlivery

Population
  
519 (United Kingdom Census 2011 including Boslymon)

Weather
  
10°C, Wind NW at 37 km/h, 77% Humidity

Lanlivery (Cornish: Lannlyvri) is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about 1 12 miles (2.4 km) west of Lostwithiel and five miles (8 km) south of Bodmin. The Saints' Way runs past Lanlivery. Helman Tor, Red Moor and Breney Common nature reserves lie within the parish.

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Map of Lanlivery, UK

Churchtown, a holiday centre for adults and children with physical and learning disabilities, is located in Lanlivery and is run by the national charity Vitalise.

Other settlements

Other settlements in the parish of Lanlivery include Redmoor, Sweetshouse, Milltown and Tangier (now a suburb of Lostwithiel). The manor of Penkneth or Penknight was one of the original 17 Antiqua maneria of the Duchy of Cornwall. (The seal of the borough of Lostwithiel was a shield charged with a castle rising from water between two thistles, in the water two fish, with the legend "Sigillum burgi de Lostwithyel et Penknight in Cornubia".) At Pelyn is a 17th-century house which was formerly the seat of the family of Kendall. It was originally E-shaped but only one side survives and the centre was completely redone in the early Victorian period.

Parish church

The parish church is dedicated to St Brevita or Bryvyth, a saint of whom nothing is known. Evidence for this dedication is found in the will of a vicar of Lanlivery dated 1539. The building was originally cruciform but was enlarged in the 15th century by the addition of a magnificent tower and the south aisle. The churches of Lostwithiel and Luxulyan were originally chapelries dependent on Lanlivery. "One of the great churches of Cornwall" according to John Betjeman.

There is a holy well dedicated to St Bryvyth in woodland just outside the village.

References

Lanlivery Wikipedia