Jacobstow
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  Jacobstow Location withinCornwall | |
| Population | 421 (Civil Parish, 2001) 522 (2011 Census including Bennacott)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SX198958 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BUDE |
| Postcode district | EX23 |
| Dialling code | 01840 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
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| 50°44′02″N4°33′18″W / 50.734°N 4.555°W /50.734; -4.555 | |
Jacobstow (Cornish:Lannjago) is acivil parish and village in northCornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is located east of theA39 road approximately seven miles (11 km) south ofBude.[2]
Penhallym in the north of the parish is mentioned (asPenhalun) in theDomesday Book;[3] nearby isPenhallam, site of a medieval manor.
The name Jacobstow originates from Saxon times and derives fromSt James (LatinJacobus) andholy place.[3] As well as thechurch town, other settlements in the parish includeSouthcott and those parts ofCanworthy Water north of theRiver Ottery.
Jacobstow parish is on high ground and is entirely rural in character. It is bounded to the northwest byPoundstock parish, to the east byWeek St Mary parish, to the west bySt Gennys parish, and to the south byWarbstow parish.[4] The southwest boundary of the parish follows the River Ottery for approximately two miles.[2]
The parish is in the Stratton Registration District and had a population of 421 at the 2001census.[3]
Jacobstow parish church is dedicated to St James and there is evidence of a formerSaxon church on the same site. The present church is of the 15th century with a nave and chancel and north and south aisles. The three-stage battlemented granite tower houses a ring of six bells. The font is Norman of the Altarnun type and the altar is an Elizabethan communion table.[3] An ancient altar stone is in the south aisle chapel: it was the main altar stone up to about 1550 in the reign ofEdward VI when theChurch of England was becoming moreProtestant and an act required that all altar stones should be removed. This one became a footbridge over a stream. It was found and moved back to the churchyard as a seat in the 1800s, and installed in the south aisle chapel in 1972. The nails that form the cross on the base of the altar are 15th century, and were saved from roof restoration work in 1970.
Jacobstow Community Primary School is situated in the village. The school caters for up to 90 children aged 4–11 years in three classes. Its catchment area includes most of Jacobstow parish as well as parts of Poundstock, St Gennys and Week St Mary parishes.[5][6]
Degory Wheare, a historian, the firstCamden Professor of Ancient History in theUniversity of Oxford, was born in Jacobstow.
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