Quethiock

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Quethiock is a village and civil parish in the Caradon district of Cornwall, United Kingdom, about five miles east of Liskeard. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 429. The ancient parish church of St Hugh's is one of the most notable in Cornwall. The placename derives from the Old Cornish cuidoc meaning wooded place.^[1]

Formerly part of the Pentillie Estate and owned by Squire Coryton most of the properties passed into owner occupation after a forced sale to meet Estate Duty in the early 1920s. As a bastion of rigid methodism the village hasn't had a public house since the closure of the Mason's Arms in the 1920s. There was a post office at Ivydene until the 1960s not long before the closure of the village General Supply Stores which not only sold everything from groceries to petrol and organs but also delivered weekly groceries to farms mills and cottages throughout a radius of 15 miles.

Quethiock's economy is centred principally around nearby Liskeard and Plymouth. The vast majority of the village's population is either retired or in full-time work; however, a tiny minority remains unemployed. There is a good local Church of England primary school.

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• Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue for Quethiock

v • d • e Civil Parishes of Caradon District Cornwall Antony • Boconnoc • Botusfleming • Broadoak • Callington • Calstock • Deviock • Dobwalls and Trewidland • Duloe • Landrake with St Erney • Landulph • Lanreath • Lansallos • Lanteglos • Linkinhorne • Liskeard • Looe • Maker-with-Rame • Menheniot • Millbrook • Morval • Pelynt • Pillaton • Quethiock • Saltash • Sheviock • South Hill • St Cleer • St Dominick • St Germans • St Ive • St John • St Keyne • St Martin-by-Looe • St Mellion • St Neot • St Pinnock • St Veep • St Winnow • Torpoint • Warleggan

Coordinates: 50°27′N, 4°22′W

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