Cury

Not to be confused with curry or Curie.
Cury
Cornish: Egloskuri
Cury

 Cury shown within Cornwall
Population 388 (Civil Parish, 2001)
OS grid reference SW678213
Parish Cury
Unitary authority Cornwall
Ceremonial county Cornwall
Region South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HELSTON
Postcode district TR12
Dialling code 01326
Police Devon and Cornwall
Fire Cornwall
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament St Ives
List of places: UK • England • Cornwall

Cury (Cornish: Egloskuri) is a civil parish and village in southwest Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately four miles (6 km) south of Helston[1] on The Lizard peninsula. The parish is named for St Corentin and is recorded in the Domesday Book as Chori[2].

Cury is a rural parish with a population of 388 at the 2001 census[2]. It is bounded to the north by Mawgan-in-Meneage parish, to the west by Gunwalloe parish, and to the south by Mullion parish. Settlements include the church town, Cury; Cross Lanes; White Cross; and Nantithet.

The parish church is dedicated to St Corentin. The building is cruciform and of the Norman period, but a north aisle was added in the 15th century. It was probably originally a manorial church of Winnianton but became a chapelry of Breage in the 13th century.[3][4]

Bochym

Stephen and Richard Davey were "adventurers" in the development of Cornish mines, during the boom period. They acquired an ancient manor house and estate at Bochym in Cury[5][6]. Richard Davey's nephew, Joshua Sydney Davey (1842–1909), son of Stephen inherited his estate at Bochym.[7][8]

Bochym Manor is residence to two ghosts, the short pink lady, and an unnamed ghost who stands at one of the bedroom windows.

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 Land's End ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7
  2. ^ a b GENUKI website: Cury. Retrieved May 2010
  3. ^ Cornish Church Guide (1925) Truro: Blackford; p. 83 (Earl Richard of Cornwall bestowed it in 1246)
  4. ^ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd edition Penguin Books; pp. 61-62
  5. ^ Bernard Deacon The Reformulation of Territorial Identity: Cornwall in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries", Chapter 5 "Institutionalising Cornwall: the role of a social elite", (Ph.D. thesis for Open University) on Univ. of Exeter online database of research papers: The Exeter Research and Institutional Content archive (ERIC)
  6. ^ Country Life, June 2008: "Gentleman's manor house in Cornwall for sale": "Bochym Manor (rebuilt 1699) has a wealth of architectural details with a stunning drawing room in French Empire style with ornate wall panels and ceiling cornices and stained glass windows, a library with exposed beams and hand-carved Italian walnut linenfold panelling and Jacobean drawing room with very early plaster relief ceiling and English walnut panelling. In all, the Grade II* listed house has 10 bedrooms, seven reception rooms, a staff flat, Gothic farmhouse, 13 cottages, outbuildings, historic landscaped walled and water gardens, bluebell wood and trout river."
  7. ^ Bochym Manor House and Clock tower, illustrated at this site.
  8. ^ Cornwall Record Office holds archives and papers of the Davey Family for the period 1795 to 1908: Cornwall (Bochym in Cury, etc) estate and mining business accounts and papers and misc Davey family diaries.

External links

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Civil parishes of St Ives constituency
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