St Mawgan

[1] The village is situated four miles northeast of Newquay, and the parish also includes the hamlet of Mawgan Porth.

[3] The nearby Royal Air Force station, RAF St Mawgan, takes its name from the village and is next to Newquay Cornwall Airport.

It was a branch of the prominent and widespread Arundell family also seated at Trerice, Tolverne, Menadarva in Cornwall and at Wardour Castle in Wiltshire.

The church was originally a cruciform building of the 13th century but was enlarged by a south aisle and the upper part of the tower in the 15th.

They were a branch of the prominent and widespread Arundell family also seated at Trerice, Tolverne, Menadarva in Cornwall and at Wardour Castle in Wiltshire.

Nanskeval House was once the home of Liberal MP Edward Brydges Willyams and is still part of the Carnanton estate which is still owned by descendants of the same family.

[10] Also at St Mawgan is a bonsai tree nursery and a Japanese Garden attraction,[11] plus a small craft shop.

The Lanherne cross is a highly ornamented example and stands in the grounds of the nunnery having been brought from Roseworthy in the parish of Gwinear.

In Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835, a poetical illustration St. Mawgan Church, & Lanhern Nunnery, Cornwall.