Tresmeer (sometimes spelled Tresmere) () is a hamlet and a
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 ...
in northeast
Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
, England, United Kingdom. The hamlet is situated approximately northwest of Launceston.
The civil parish is bounded to the north by
Treneglos and
Tremaine parishes, to the east by
Egloskerry, and to the west by
Treneglos parish. The population of Tresmeer parish in the 2001 census was 216, increasing to 271 at the 2011 census.
Tresmeer is in the Registration District of
Launceston. The parish church of St Nicholas is in the churchtown at .
Tresmeer was served by a railway station at the hamlet of Splatt on the
North Cornwall Railway
The North Cornwall Railway (NCR) also known as the North Cornwall Line, was a standard gauge railway line running from Halwill in Devon, to Padstow in Cornwall, at a distance of via Launceston, Camelford and Wadebridge. The line was opened ...
line until closure of the route in 1966.
There is a Cornish cross in the churchyard. According to Arthur Langdon it was formerly in the churchyard of
Laneast. He observed it in the 1890s placed at the head of the grave of a late vicar of Tresmeer.
[Langdon, A. G. (1896) ''Old Cornish Crosses''. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 209-10]
References
External links
North Cornwall Railway
Civil parishes in Cornwall
Hamlets in Cornwall
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