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{{Short description|Village in east Cornwall, England}}
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[[File:Bridge near Polyphant - geograph.org.uk - 708340.jpg|thumb|This bridge carries the lane from Polyphant to Trevell over the Penpont Water]]
[[File:Cross (front) (FindID 457682).jpg|thumb|A miniature Cornish cross of Polyphant stone]]
'''Polyphant''' ({{langx|kw|Pollefans}}),<ref>[http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515091028/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=520 |date=2013-05-15 }}: [http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 '''List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel'''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515071635/http://www.magakernow.org.uk/idoc.ashx?docid=79ba408d-7c02-499e-8cd6-b18dd48de58d&version=-1 |date=2013-05-15 }}. [[Cornish Language Partnership]].</ref> recorded as ''Polefant'' c. 1170,<ref>[[Weatherhill, Craig]] (2009) ''A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-names''. Westport, Mayo: Evertype; p. 57</ref> is a village in east [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom. It is north of the civil parish of [[Lewannick]], five miles (8&nbsp;km) west of the town of [[Launceston, Cornwall|Launceston]] near the convergence of the [[River Inny, Cornwall|River Inny]] and [[Penpont Water]].<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 ''Plymouth & Launceston'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-23146-3}}</ref>

The manor of Polyphant (Polefand) was recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] (1086) when it was one of several manors held by Nigel from [[Robert, Count of Mortain]]. There was half a hide of land and land for 3 ploughs. There were 2 ploughs, 3 serfs, 3 villeins, 6 smallholders, 2 acres of meadow, 1 acre of woodland, 10 acres of pasture, 7 cattle and 30 sheep. The value of the manor was 15 shillings.<ref>Thorn, C. et al., ed. (1979) ''Cornwall''. Chichester: Phillimore; entry 5,6,8</ref>

The disused quarries to the north of the village, designated ''Polyphant SSSI'' ([[Site of Special Scientific Interest]]) in 1994, were the source of an ornamental building stone, a variety of [[elvan]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Polyphant|url=http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1001581.pdf|publisher=[[Natural England]]|accessdate=7 November 2011|year=1994}}</ref>

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