Kilkhampton ()[ Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF) : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel . Cornish Language Partnership.] is a village and civil parish in northeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
The village is on the A39 about four miles (6 km) north-northeast of Bude.[Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 Bude & Clovelly ]
Kilkhampton was mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Chilchetone". The population of the parish was 1,193 in the 2001 census.[[3] GENUKI website. Retrieved April 2001] This increased to 1,368 in the 2011 census [Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books]
Kilkhampton has a post office, a primary school, and a community centre called the Grenville Rooms. There are three general stores, two pubs, and a selection of shops including an electrical goods store. There is also a MOT test station and an agricultural supply depot. The village was surveyed for the Survey of English Dialects.
A has been named Kilkhampton.
History
The manor of "Chilchetone" was very valuable at the time of the
Domesday Book in 1086. It had paid tax on 7 hides in the previous reign and there was land for 40 ploughs. 26 villagers and 23 smallholders had 26 ploughs between them and there was also of meadow, 20 sq furlongs of pasture and a considerable woodland. The livestock were 50 cattle, 600 sheep, 20 pigs and 40 goats; the annual value was £18.
[Thorn, C. et al. (eds.) (1979) Cornwall. Chichester: Phillimore; entry 1, 4]
Kilkhampton Church
Kilkhampton Church, with its magnificent Norman south doorway and lofty buttressed Perpendicular tower of eight bells, is dedicated to St James the Great and is at least 450 years old. But some historians claim parts of it to be around 1000 years old. It is one of many churches dedicated to this saint on a pilgrims' route, which leads ultimately to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. The church contains an impressive monument to the Cornish hero Sir
Bevil Grenville. Other features of interest are the south porch (dated 1567), a fine series of benchends of the first half of the 16th century. (The benchends are from the same workshop as those of Launcells and Poughill.)
[Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall, 2nd ed. Penguin Books]
The tenor bell was found to be cracked in 2006: after repairs, it was re-hung and the full peal of eight bells were first heard again on Sunday 23 September 2007.
In medieval times there was a chapel at Stowe House, licensed in 1386, but dedicated to St Christina in 1519 by Bishop Thomas Vyvyan. At Alderscombe there was another chapel.[ The Cornish Church Guide. Truro: Blackford; p. 124]
Cornish wrestling
Cornish wrestling tournaments, for prizes, were held in Kilkhampton in the 1800s.
[Launceston Weekly News, and Cornwall & Devon Advertiser, 18 June 1859.]
Notable residents
See also People from Kilkhampton
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Bevil Grenville (1596–1643), Royalist commander in the Civil War.
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Baron Granville a title created twice, in 1661 and 1703
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James Yeo (1789–1868), shipbuilder, merchant, farmer and political figure in Prince Edward Island.
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Henry Robinson (1819–1887), local Rector in the 1850s
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Thomas Greenway (1838–1908), Premier of the Canadian province of Manitoba until 1908.
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Minnie Pallister (1885–1960), a political writer and activist, self-described " Socialist propagandist" and unsuccessful political candidate
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Adelaide Phillpotts (1896–1993), the novelist, poet and playwright, lived in Kilkhampton following her marriage in 1952.
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Phil Vickery (born 1976), the England rugby union captain grew up in the village, he played about 200 games and 73 for England, his family still own a substantial amount of the surrounding farmland
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