Marhamchurch

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Marhamchurch is a village in North Cornwall, UK.

Marhamchurch lies two miles inland from Bude off the A39 Atlantic Highway to Wadebridge.

The Celtic Saint Marwenne around the end of the fifth century founded a hermitage and gave her name to the village. She was one of the twenty-four children of St Brychan, a Welsh saint and king, in the 4th century.

[edit] Marhamchurch Revel

Marhamchurch Revel is a festival held every year, on the Monday after 12th August in Marhamchurch. During the festival a Queen of the Revel is chosen from the village schoolgirls and crowned by Father Time in front of the church where St. Morwenna's cells are said to have stood. Following these events a procession led by the local band and the newly crowned Revel Queen then proceeds through the village to the Revel Ground. Here the villagers are entertained with a show of Cornish dancing, Cornish Wrestling and other entertainments.

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