English Heritage sites near St. Mellion Parish
DUPATH WELL
2 miles from St. Mellion Parish
This charming well-house of around 1500 stands over an ancient spring, believed to cure whooping cough.
TRETHEVY QUOIT
7 miles from St. Mellion Parish
This well-preserved and impressive Neolithic 'dolmen' burial chamber stands 2.7 metres (8.9 ft) high. There are five standing stones, surmounted by a huge capstone.
HURLERS STONE CIRCLES
8 miles from St. Mellion Parish
Three fine late Neolithic or early Bronze Age stone circles arranged in a line, a grouping unique in England.
KING DONIERT'S STONE
8 miles from St. Mellion Parish
Two richly carved pieces of a 9th century 'Celtic' cross, with an inscription commemorating Dumgarth, British King of Dumnonia, who drowned in c. AD 875.
ROYAL CITADEL, PLYMOUTH
10 miles from St. Mellion Parish
A dramatic 17th-century fortress built to defend the coastline from the Dutch, and keep watch on a recently rebellious town. Still in use by the military today.
LAUNCESTON CASTLE
12 miles from St. Mellion Parish
Launceston Castle dominates the surrounding landscape. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest, unusual in that during rebuilding one tower was constructed with the remains of the older.
Churches in St. Mellion Parish
St Mellion: St Melanus
St Mellion
Saltash
01822 834170
https://sites.google.com/tamar7.org/tamar-valley-benefice/home
Welcome to St Melanus, the parish church of St Mellion in the Anglican Diocese of Truro and county of Cornwall England.
St Mellion is part of the Tamar Benefice which includes St Odulph at Pillaton; St Leonard & St Dilpe at Landulph; St Dominica at St Dominick; All Saints at Harrowbarrow; St Andrew at Calstock and St Anne at Gunnislake. We are also responsible for two chapels; St Indract's Chapel at Halton Quay and Cotehele House Chapel.
For more information please visit our website - here.
Pubs in St. Mellion Parish
Coryton Arms
Known as the Sun Inn until 1984, this is a cosy pub dating at least from the 19th century and possibly the 14th, with beamed ceiling and retaining a bar floor of original slate. There is one ever-changing guest ale normally available. The p...