Landrake () is a village in southeast

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, England. It is situated approximately three miles (5 km) west of

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, in the

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Landrake with St Erney Landrake with St Erney () is a Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cornwall, England. The parish population at the 2011 census was 1,115. St Erney parish church is dedicated to St Terninus. St Terninus, Terney, or Erney, is also the pat ...

(where the population of the 2011 census was included.). The

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passes through the village. Landrake has a post office, a shop, a pub named the Bullers Arms, and Sir Robert Geffery's School, a primary school. The school takes its name from Landrake-born Sir Robert Geffery who, in 1704, bequeathed money to set up a trust to educate children of the parish.

Church

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Landrake Church is dedicated to St Michael. It stands on a hill and the tower is 100 ft high. Parts of the building are

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but the majority is of the 15th century. There is a brass to Edward Cowrtney, 1509. The church is a

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building, having been so designated on 23 January 1968. King Edmund gave the parish of Landerch to Bishop Burhwold in exchange for land in Devon; in 1018 this gift was confirmed by

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who declared the gift had really been for the benefit of the monastery of St Germans where the bishop had his see. The gift included the parish of Landrake with its chapel of St Erney; these continued to be held by the monastery after the see was moved to Devon. In 1269 a vicarage was established whereby the vicar received the small tithes of Landrake and St Erney and the great tithe was kept by the monastery.

Notable people

Francis Rous Francis Rous, also spelled Rouse (c. 1581 to 1659), was an English politician and Puritan religious author, who was Provost of Eton from 1644 to 1659, and briefly Speaker of the House of Commons in 1653. Stepbrother of Parliamentary leader J ...

(1579–1659), an English politician, prominent Puritan and Provost of Eton. For some years he lived in Landrake in seclusion and occupied himself with theological studies.

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