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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"LANIVET, a parish in the hundred of Pyder, county Cornwall, 2 miles S.W. of Bodmin, its post town. It is a large agricultural parish, situated on the turnpike road from Bodmin to Truro, and contains the hamlets of Bodwanick, Lamorick, Tremore, and St. Lawrence. A portion of the inhabitants are engaged in mining. The soil is various, with subsoil slate and dunstone. The living is a rectory 0 in the diocese of Exeter, value £667. The church is an ancient structure, with a tower containing six bells. The interior of the church contains a font, two crosses, and tombs to the Courtenays. In the churchyard is an ancient Maltese cross. The charities produce about £151 per annum, chiefly arising from the nunnery lands. This sum is. applied in aid of the poor-rates. There is a National school for both sexes. The Bible Christians and Wesleyans have each a place of worship. The principal residence is St. Benet's, built out of the ruins of a nunnery, recently restored with the exception of the tower, which remains in a ruined state. The nunnery is of unknown foundation, but supposed to have been subordinate to some foreign house. William Michell, Esq., M.P., and the Rev. William Phillips Flamank are lords of the manor."