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Meneage

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and is a chapelry of Mawgan in Meneage (right of sepulture was granted in 1385). The ancient estates of Barry Mylor and Mathiana adjoin the church and the two names indicate that in early times there were chapels of two Breton saints here. Of St Melor at Merther Mylor (Barry Mylor) and St Anou at
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The meaning of the name Meneage is "Monkish (land)" and the probability is that in the post-Roman period the land was in the possession of a confederacy of small Celtic monasteries. These may have been founded by missionaries from Brittany. "The north-eastern half of
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described the Lizard boundary zone and Meneage breccia like this in 1933: "A vast mass ... of Lizard schists, Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian (and possibly Carboniferous), driven northwards and broken up by the late Carboniferous Hercynian movements."
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St Keverne. The monastery here remained in existence after the Norman Conquest but subsequently fell into the hands of a layman. The church is dedicated to St Akeveranus. In the parish is Lesneague which can be derived from Cornish
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peninsula ... has, for the last 1000 years at least and probably for a considerable time longer, gone by the popular name of Meneage, pronounced Menāgue. This name, like Roseland, has no official significance."—
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Manaccan. Though St Manacca was recorded as the patron saint in 1308 it is probable that the name has the meaning of Monks' Church. The form of the dedication in use today is to St Manaccus and St Dunstan.
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that reach up to 200 m (660 ft) in length. In the upper part, some of the volcanic rocks appear to be in place (not as clasts) and are dated as Upper Devonian from
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containing clasts of sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks, which reaches up to 1,500 m (4,900 ft) in thickness. The sedimentary clasts include blocks of
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St Mawgan in Meneage. The church is dedicated to St Mauganus; St Martin's is a chapelry belonging to this parish. Part of the parish is not in the Meneage district.
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The Meneage district is located south of the Helford River and is divided into four parishes and part of a fifth. From west to east these are
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Meneage gives its name to the Meneage Formation, which underlies most of the area. It forms part of the
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The geology of the district is complex and is now better understood by geologists than it used to be.
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Note: the coordinates above are the approximate centre of the Meneage district.
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Gramscatho Group, the sedimentary sequence that lies structurally beneath the
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facies, with the development of the assemblage pumpellyite + actinolite +
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Barton, R. M. (1964) "The Lizard boundary zone and Meneage breccia", in:
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and is exposed along its northern boundary. The Meneage Formation is an
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to albite in these rocks has previously been explained as a result of
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at the time of formation, and the rocks have been referred to as
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Henderson, Charles (1925) "Parochial history of Cornwall", in:
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and is somewhat away from the village near Gillan Harbour.
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Merther Anou; the modern forms being variously corrupted.
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List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel
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St Martin in Meneage. The church is dedicated to St
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Index

50°04′34″N 5°10′28″W / 50.07609°N 5.17456°W / 50.07609; -5.17456

hundred of Kerrier
/mɪˈnɡ/
Cornish
Cornwall
Falmouth
Helston
the Lizard
Gilbert H. Doble
St Mawgan in Meneage
St Martin in Meneage
Manaccan
St Anthony in Meneage
St Keverne
Martin of Tours
OS Grid ref SW782256
Anthony
Lizard
Gunwalloe

the Lizard
John Smith Flett
Devonian
Lizard complex
olistostrome
mudstone
Ordovician
quartzite
conodonts

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