Crantock

"CRANTOCK, a parish in the hundred of Pyder, in the county of Cornwall, 7 miles W. of St. Columb Major, and the same distance from St. Michael. It is situated at the mouth of the river Gannel, which falls into Crantock Bay, forming a small harbour in the Bristol Channel. In the reign of Edward the Confessor, the Bishop of Bodmin made the church collegiate for secular canons, and at the Dissolution it had a revenue of £89 15s. 8d. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Exeter, value £78, in the patronage of Lord Churston. The charities consist of part of those of St. Columb. In the vicinity is St. Ambrose's Well, and the old seats of the Mynorse and Tregonell families."

"PENTIRE, a headland near Holywell Bay in the parish of Crantock, county Cornwall, 7 miles W. of St. Colomb."

"PENTIRE POINT, a headland on the Bristol Channel in the parish of Crantock, county Cornwall, 3 miles N.E. of Padstow. In the neighbourhood lead has been found."