Coordinates: 50°28′48″N 4°22′57″W / 50.4801°N 4.3824°W
| St Ive | |
| Cornish: Sen Iv | |
.png)  St Ive
 St Ive shown within Cornwall |
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| Population | 2,121 (Parish, 2001) |
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| OS grid reference | |
| Unitary authority | Cornwall |
| Ceremonial county | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LISKEARD |
| Postcode district | PL14 |
| Dialling code | 01579 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Cornwall |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| European Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | South East Cornwall |
| List of places: UK • England • Cornwall | |
St Ive (pronounced /ˈiːv/ "eve") is a village and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. St Ive should not be confused with St Ives, the well-known seaside town in the west of Cornwall. The village is split into three parts: St Ive Church End, St Ive Keason and St Ive Parkfield.
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History and geography
The parish used to be a large rural area of rolling landscape with wooded valleys and the population was sparse with the largest village being St Ive itself, sited on the A390. The demography of the parish was radically altered with the mid-Victorian mining boom centred around Caradon Hill. South Caradon Mine situated just over the parish border was at one time the largest and most prosperous copper mine in the world.
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, politician and sociologist, and his sister Emily Hobhouse, the social activist, were both born in St Ive.
Parish Church
The parish church is probably dedicated to Saint Ive, a supposedly Persian bishop whose body was found in 1001 at St Ives in Cambridgeshire.[1] The building is mainly 14th century and similar to the church of South Hill, though more elaborate in detail. The consecration of the church in 1338 is recorded in the diocesan register. The south aisle, south porch and the top of the tower were added either in the 15th or early 16th century: (the tower has 12 pinnacles). The pulpit is dated 1700 but is in the Jacobean style. A monument to J. Lyne, d. 1791, is by Robert Isbell; another monument to a member of the Wrey family was moved to Tavistock in 1924.[2]
References
- ^ Orme, Nicholas (2000). The Saints of Cornwall. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 148–149. ISBN 0-19-820765-4.
- ^ Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed. Penguin Books; p. 179
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