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North Petherwin c.1900. Photo courtesy of Ray Boyd.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Petherwin is a parish and village in northeast Cornwall. The village is situated five miles northwest of Launceston on a ridge above the River Ottery<\/a> (Attery<\/em>) valley.
\nNorth Petherwin is a rural parish which has transferred between Devon and Cornwall in the past. Historically, the Dukes of Bedford have been major landowners in the parish. As well as the church town, settlements include Hellescott, Brassacott or Brazzacott, and Maxworthy. Penheale Manor<\/a> has land within the parish.<\/p>\n

It is considered that the original church was probably a Field church or a private chapel of the grange of some monastery or other religious settlement, most of which had farm buildings on their estates, to which often chapels were attached. The majority of Churches like North Petherwin, were built during the middle ages, but with the passing of time serious deterioration would set in and many were restored during the reign of Queen Victoria, North Petherwin included.
\nAlthough the church is built on a Celtic site there are no remains of a Celtic building. The first translator of the scriptures into Anglo-Saxon was Aldhelin, Bishop of Sherborne in 709 and it wasn\u2019t long before Cornwall and Celtic sovereignty surrendered at Hengist Down (Hingston Down<\/em>), near Callington, to King Egbert. In consequence of this, the Cornish bishop acknowledged the Archbishop of Canterbury as his superior, and the King of Wessex acquired lands in Cornwall and Devon for the royal estates. Whereas up till now the Anglo-Saxons had divided the country into a number of small kingdoms, these were united finally under Egbert, who thus became the first King of England in 838. Egbert gave to the Bishop of Sherborne three Cornish estates, \u201cone of which was Lanwithian, or Lawhitton<\/a>. This included the future parishes of Dunheved, Lawhitton, Lezant<\/a>, Trewen<\/a> and South Petherwin<\/a>.\u201d The episcopal estate appears to have been carved out of properties belonging to the native church. The unit broken up, in this case, was a district seemingly known as Petherwin. The only clue to this being the names of the two parishes of North and South Petherwin, which share the name and are both dedicated to the Celtic saint Paternus. In the course of the English conquest, North Petherwin was annexed to the royal demesne (estate<\/em>).
\nNorth Petherwin with its mother church of St. Paternus, continued to be the ecclesiastical centre of a large district; but the principal names in Stratton, because the King of Wessex appointed officials to administer the crown lands and keep the colonists in order. The kingdom was divided into \u201cshires\u201d and the shires into \u201chundreds.\u201d In the will of King Alfred he bequeathed to his son, Edward, Stratton and with it probably its dependencies in Triconshire; that is, in the future hundreds of Trigg, Lesnewth and Stratton.
\nBy 1050 the two bishoprics of St Germans and Crediton became one at Exeter and the old tribal divisions of Cornwall were reorganised on the English model as \u201chundreds.\u201d Triconshire, which included Werrington and North Petherwin, became the hundred of Stratton. Just before the landing of William the Conqueror at Hastings, North Petherwin was part of the royal estate, as has been pointed out. As such it descended to Gytha a pious woman, the wife of Earl Godwin and mother of Harold.<\/p>\n

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North Petherwin aerial. Photo courtesy of Jon Wickett<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St. Paternus Church Memorial Inscriptions<\/a><\/p>\n

Vicars of North Petherwin<\/strong><\/p>\n

1656, July 8, Isaac Rowse.
\n1681, May 18, Digory Cradacott.
\n1728, Apr. 12, Edmund Herring.
\n1785, June 1, Christopher Cunningham Vickery.
\n1793, Apr. 23, Robert Sleeman.
\n1796, Nov. 25, William Elford.
\n1833, Feb. 14, John Kingdon<\/p>\n

Non-Conformist Memorial Inscriptions<\/a><\/p>\n

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North Petherwin School Boys Class in the early 1900s.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The\u00a0School\u00a0Board\u00a0was\u00a0formed\u00a0on February 20th, 1873\u00a0and\u00a0was\u00a0composed\u00a0of\u00a0Richard\u00a0Banbury,\u00a0Richard\u00a0Hawke,\u00a0Jun\u00a0(clerk<\/em>),\u00a0William Rockey,\u00a0John\u00a0Symons,\u00a0Rev.\u00a0Thomas\u00a0Braithwaite\u00a0Trentham\u00a0 (chairman<\/em>). The new school at Brazzacott was built and opened in June 1878.<\/p>\n

North Petherwin Gallery.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n