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St Mabyn () is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is situated three miles (5 km) east of Wadebridge.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 200 Newquay & Bodmin The parish includes a hamlet called Longstone to the east and many small manor houses, including Tregarden, Tredethy, Helligan Barton and Colquite, all built in the 16th and 17th centuries. The area of the parish is .
The first recorded mention of the village was in 1234 when it was spelt Sancto Malbano, The ma... prefix can mean ‘place’.
In 2013 the proportion of dwellings that were second homes or holiday accommodation was 10.1%.
The village is surrounded by high quality, undulating farmland. The Allen valley to the north west contains a number of Cornish Nature Conservation Sites. Land to the south-east is designated as an open area of local significance. Four trees in the village are subject to preservation orders."Allan Ward Profile" (Issue 8 March 2008) North Cornwall District Council The village has no connection to main sewerage and relies on septic tank drainage.
There was post-war development of local authority housing along Chapel Lane and Wadebridge Road. In the 1980s private housing schemes at Mabena Close and Meadow Court were completed and there was further ribbon development growth along Station Road. A residential development Greenwix Parc, comprising thirty five dwellings including 12 affordable units was completed by Galliford Try in 2011.
James Mutton of Burlerrow Farm was the first farmer in Cornwall to receive a grant from the England Rural Development Programme this enabled him to process Miscanthus giganteus which is grown on his 750-acre farm and around the village, the crop is converted into livestock bedding. The farm generates its own electricity with an Endurance 50 kW wind turbine.
Andrew and Sally Kellow keep a large dairy herd at Treveglos Farm.
Tom Bray produces around 26,000 litres of traditional farm cider a year at Haywood Farm, where he has propagated 5,000 apple trees.
In 2018 with the village shop proposing to close, a community shop opened on the site of the old school dinner hut, previously a petrol station.
An archaeological excavation at Chapelfields in 2016 uncovered evidence of two domestic Romano British enclosures (AD 43 to 410), finds included a rare copper alloy brooch, Samian ware dated AD 150-230 and a slate game piece. In January 2021 the Chapelfield site was subject to a second archaeological excavation which revealed finds including rotary querns, glass table ware and a large range of local and imported pottery.
Arthur Langdon (1896) records four Cornish crosses in the parish: one in the churchyard and others at Colquite, Cross Hill and Penwine.Langdon, A. G. (1896) Old Cornish Crosses. Truro: Joseph Pollard; pp. 65-66, 48 & 338 The Penwine cross is at Longstone.
The parish was part of the ancient hundred of Triggshire. In the Domesday Book of 1086 this district was taxed under the jurisdiction of Treu-es-coit (translated as "town of the wood", now called Trevisquite). Trethevey in St Mabyn parish was a manor recorded in the Domesday Book as Tewardevi. Both manors were held by Richard from Robert, Count of Mortain. Trevisquite had land for 12 ploughs, 25 households, a mill, 20 acres of woodland and 50 of pasture; its value was 25 shillings a year. Trethevey had land only for one plough, 3 households and 30 acres of pasture; its value was only 2 shillings though it had formerly been 5 shillings.Thorn, C. et al. (eds.) Cornwall. Chichester: Phillimore; entries 5,3,24 & 25 The St Mabyn Trethevey has the meaning "manorial centre on the river Dewey" (Ty war Duwy) unlike other Cornish places called Trethevy.Weatherhill, Craig (2009) A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype ; p. 76
The inquisition of the bishops of Lincoln and Winchester in 1294 gave the Cornish benefice "Ecclesia de Maben in decanatu de Trig Minorshire" a rateable value of £8. In Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's inquisition of 1521 it is rated at £36.Polsue, Joseph (1870) A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall
Sir Richard Serjeaux of Colquite in St Mabyn became High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1389.Polsue, Joseph (1872) A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, Vol. IV, p. 122 Below Colquite House is the ruin of a manor house possibly of the late 15th century which may have been a first-floor hall house.Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., revised by E. Radcliffe. Penguin; p. 55Chesher, F. (1967) (article in) Cornish Archaeology; vol. 6
The Long Sentry field south east of the church, has been identified as the possible location of the most northerly Plain-an-gwarry or playing place () a Cornish culture Medieval amphitheatre it is mentioned in a church terrier of 1613 and 1679.Church Terrier – 1613 – Cornwall Record Office Document ARD/TER/304
Grade II listed Dinham's Bridge, built in the early 19th century crosses over the River Allan on the parish boundary with St Kew parish.
St Mabyn's standing stone was broken up for gateposts in 1850 and the stump re-located to the crossroads at Longstone. The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Longstone (St Mabyn) Standing Stone (Menhir)
The main land owners in 1875, apart from the church, were The Viscount Falmouth, the Trustees of William Molesworth, John Tremayne from Heligan estate, the heirs of the late John Peter-Hoblyn, Francis John Hext and Mrs. Hooper and Richard Hambly Andrew. There was an annual fair held on 14 February. St Mabyn AP/CP Cornwall through time | Descriptive Gazetteer entries
In 2012 a parish councillor became the first in Cornwall to be disqualified from holding public office, and was banned for two years for bullying and showing disrespect to members.
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