Cardinham

Cardinham (Cornish: Kardhinan) (the spelling 'Cardynham' is almost obsolete) is a civil parish and a village in mid Cornwall, England.

[2] Large areas, which were once deciduous woodland, are now plantations of conifers known as Cardinham Woods and managed by Forestry England.

[3] Richard Fitz Turold (Thorold) was an Anglo-Norman landowner of the eleventh century, mentioned in the Domesday Survey.

[6] The manor of Cardinham is one of the few where the custom of Free Bench is recorded: by this a widow could retain tenure of the land until she remarried.

The parish church is dedicated to St Meubred: it has north and south aisles and a tower of granite.

[11] Two freestanding Celtic crosses of stone, bearing inscriptions in Latin have been found in Cardinham; both had been embedded in the walls of the fifteenth-century church and were moved after their discovery to the churchyard.

St Meubred's church (note the cross on the right)
One of the crosses in the churchyard
Treslea Cross
Cardinham Methodist Church