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{{Short description|Civil parish on the north coast of Cornwall, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name= Forrabury and Minster
| civil_parish = Forrabury and Minster
| country= England
| region= South West England
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| unitary_england= [[Cornwall (district)|Cornwall]]
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| population =838
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'''Forrabury and Minster''' is a [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] on the north coast of [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom.<ref>Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 190 ''Bude & Clovelly'' {{ISBN|978-0-319-23145-6}}</ref> The parish was originally divided between the coastal parish of Forrabury and inland parish of Minster until they were united on the 1st of April 1919.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10067492|title=Relationships and changes Forrabury and Minster CP through time|publisher=[[Vision of Britain]]|access-date=7 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/camelford.html|title=Camelford Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|access-date=7 March 2019}}</ref>

The parish was in the Registration District of Camelford. It is bounded to the north by the [[Atlantic]]; to the east by the parishes of [[St Juliot]], [[Lesnewth]] and [[Davidstow]]; to the south by [[Camelford]] parish (ecclesiastical parish of Lanteglos by Camelford); and to the west by [[Trevalga]] parish. The population of Forrabury and Minster parish in the 2001 census was 888, which decreased slightly to 838 at the 2011 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/Forrabury/index.html#Population|title=Parish population 2011 census|access-date= 9 February 2015}}</ref>
[[File:Forrabury church Boscastle 7.jpg|thumb|Forrabury Parish Church]]

==Settlements and churches==
{{main|Forrabury and Minster parish churches}}

[[File:Minster Church DSC 9344.jpg|Minster Church|thumb]]
[[Boscastle]] is the principal settlement in the parish of Forrabury and Minster. It is {{convert|14|mi|km|abbr=off}} south of [[Bude]] and {{convert|5|mi|km|abbr=off}} north-east of [[Tintagel]]. Forrabury parish church, dedicated to St [[Symphorian and Timotheus|Symphorian]], is in Boscastle at {{gbmapping|SX 095 908}}.

However, the mother church of Boscastle is dedicated to St Materiana and nestles among the trees of Minster Wood in the valley of the [[River Valency]] half-a-mile east of Boscastle at {{gbmapping|SX 110 904}}. The original Forrabury / Minster boundary crossed the river so the harbour end of the village was in Forrabury and the upriver area in Minster. The churches were established some time earlier than the settlement at Boscastle (in Norman times when a castle was built there). The Celtic name of Minster was Talkarn but it was renamed Minster in [[Anglo-Saxon England|Anglo-Saxon times]] because of a monastery on the site. Until the Reformation St Materiana's tomb was preserved in the church. (Another spelling of her name sometimes used is 'Mertheriana' but the usual Latin form is Materiana.) In 1187 the [[advowson]] of Forrabury Church was granted to the newly founded [[Hartland Abbey]] by [[Baron Botreaux|William de Botreaux]] of [[Boscastle]],<ref>Burnard, William, History of Boscastle and Trevalga, Australia, 2007, p.53</ref> who also gave the Abbey the advowsons of other of his manors in Devon. For many years the Anglican parishes of Forrabury and Minster have been in the charge of a Rector who is responsible for a group of adjoining parishes as well as these. Minster Church was damaged by the [[Boscastle flood of 2004|flood of August 2004]] and in the following year archaeological work was done at the church to obtain a clearer idea of the history of the building.<ref>Allan, John (2008) After the Flood: building recording at Minster Church, Boscastle, in 2005, in: ''Cornish Archaeology''; 43-44 (2004-05), pp. 145-158</ref>

==Notable buildings and antiquities==
[[File:The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall (1906) (14777326862).jpg|thumb|The cross on Waterpit Down (fig. 43) illustrated in ''The Victoria History of the County of Cornwall'' (1906)]]
Minster church was built in Norman times (some late medieval additions and [[Victorian restoration|restoration]] work carried out in the 19th century): it is listed Grade I.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.boscastlecornwall.org.uk/church_minster_info.htm|title= Minster Church|access-date= 2009-03-19|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081007232625/http://www.boscastlecornwall.org.uk/church_minster_info.htm|archive-date= 2008-10-07}}</ref> Forrabury church also has some Norman work but the tower was added in 1750. The Rev [[Robert Stephen Hawker|R. S. Hawker]] wrote a poem on "The Bells of Forrabury": it was based on a local legend arising from the absence of a peal of bells in the tower. At Welltown in Forrabury parish is a manor house dating from about 1640 and at Worthyvale and Redevallen in Minster parish are two manor houses also of the 17th century. Not far from Worthyvale is an inscribed stone (Latini [h]ic iacit filius Macari = Latin son of Macarus lies here). This stone is popularly known as King Arthur's Grave due to the erroneous identification of [[Slaughterbridge|Slaughter Bridge]] with the site of Camlann. At Waterpit Down (on the road towards Launceston in Minster parish) are the remains of a cross probably from the 10th century.<ref>{{cite book | last = Pevsner | first = Nikolaus | title = Cornwall|edition= 2nd |editor=Enid Radcliffe | orig-year = 1951| year = 1970 | publisher = Penguin Books | isbn = 0-14-071001-9 | pages = 69 & 120 }}</ref> [[Camelford railway station]] (now occupied by the British Cycling Museum) was built in 1893 and was closed in 1966. (Though named after nearby [[Camelford]] it was in Minster parish.)

==Views in Forrabury and Minster==
<gallery>
File:Forrabury and Minster - old lime kiln, Boscastle - geograph.org.uk - 842707.jpg|Forrabury and Minster: old lime kiln, Boscastle
File:Forrabury and Minster - Coastwatch station, Willapark - geograph.org.uk - 842689.jpg|Forrabury and Minster: Coastwatch station, Willapark
File:Forrabury and Minster - Boscastle pier - geograph.org.uk - 93967.jpg|Forrabury and Minster: Boscastle pier
File:Forrabury and Minster - Boscastle Old Mill or Bridge Mill - geograph.org.uk - 45664.jpg|Forrabury and Minster: Boscastle Old Mill or Bridge Mill
</gallery>

==Bibliography==
*[[John MacLean (historian)|Maclean, Sir John]], ''The Parochial and Family History of the Parishes of Forrabury and Minster in the County of Cornwall'', 1873 (part of MacLean's ''Parochial and Family History of ... Trigg Minor'')
*Armstrong, W. J. C., ''A Rambler's Guide to Boscastle; Together with St Juliot, Lesnewth [and] Trevalga''; 2nd ed., 1931, privately printed at Boscastle

==References==
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== External links ==
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*[http://www.boscastlecornwall.org.uk/parish_council/prshcouncilnews.htm Parish council website]
*[http://www.slaughterbridgedig.blogspot.com/ Information about an archeological project on the area]

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