Bake () is a
hamlet
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in the
civil parish
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of
Deviock
Deviock is a coastal civil parishes in England, civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately three miles (5 km) west of St Germans, Cornwall, St Germans and straddles the valley of the River Seat ...
, in south-east
Cornwall
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, England, United Kingdom. It is west of
St Germans at , south-west of the
A38/
A374 Trerulefoot roundabout.
[Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' ]
Bake is the seat of the Moyle family (although Bake itself is in the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
of
Deviock
Deviock is a coastal civil parishes in England, civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately three miles (5 km) west of St Germans, Cornwall, St Germans and straddles the valley of the River Seat ...
) and
St German's Priory
St Germans Priory is a large Norman church in the village of St Germans in south-east Cornwall, England, UK.
History
According to tradition the church here was founded by St Germanus himself . The first written record however is of Conan be ...
has a mortuary chapel for the Moyle family of Bake.
West of the manor house, a steep tree-lined valley called Bake Wood runs down to the
River Seaton.
At the top of the valley, seven artificial lakes are commercially operated as Bake Fishing Lakes providing
coarse fishing
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and
fly fishing
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.
There is also a place called Bake in the civil parish of
Pelynt
Pelynt ( or ) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth and four miles (6.5 km) west-northwest of Looe. Pelynt had a population of around 1,124 at the 2001 census wh ...
.
Weatherhill, Craig
Craig Weatherhill (1950 or 1951 – 18 or 19 July 2020) was a Cornish antiquarian, novelist and writer on the history, archaeology, place names and mythology of Cornwall.
Weatherhill attended school in Falmouth, where his parents ran a sports ...
(2009) ''A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names''. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 20
See also
*
Bake Fishing Lakes
Bake Fishing Lakes (); also known as Bake Lakes, Bake Farm Lakes or Bake Pools; is the name for a group of lakes at Bake Farm, near Trerulefoot, Cornwall, England, UK.
There are seven lakes in total; they are used for angling, and are stocked wi ...
References
Hamlets in Cornwall
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