Egloskerry (Cornish: Egloskeri) is a village and civil parish in east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

The name comes directly from the Celtic Cornish language Eglos meaning church (the equivalent in modern Welsh being Eglwys).

During the 1920s, Norman Colville acquired Penheale and made extensive renovations and additions through the assistance of the famous English architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens.

I was going by, I'm sure, without thinking or expecting a nod from men of that glib kidney..."Hardy, Thomas (2005), A Pair of Blue Eyes, Oxford University Press, 320.

He shivers because the wind tries to shatter the windows from Egloskerry onwards; he is proud because he cannot think what the railway would do without him; for two or three shilings he has apparently bought the train, a rheumatic locomotive which wobbles and totters seawards, and a lot of little weather-beaten stations with two or three dummy men thrown in at each one, looking like Shems, Hams and Japhets standing on wooden plates all ready for the Ark.Trevena, John (1908), Heather, Alston Rivers, London, 424.

Green Southern Railway engines came right into the brown and cream Great Western district of Cornwall, to reach Padstow, Launceston, Egloskerry, Otterham, Tresmeer, Camelford – and so on, down that windy single line.