St Endellion
village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK
St Endellion (Cornish: Sen Endelyn) is a civil parish and hamlet in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The hamlet and parish church are situated four miles (6.5 km) north of Wadebridge.
The parish takes its name from Saint Endelienta, who is said to have evangelised the district in the fifth century and to have been one of the children of King Brychan. Two wells near the church are named after her.
The name is included in the electoral ward of St Minver and St Endellion, which includes Polzeath and Rock, with a population at the 2011 census of 3268.
Geography and topography
St Endellion is the Type Locality for the minerals bournonite (also known as Endellione or Endellionite) and barstowite.
St Endellion lies within the Cornwall National Landscape (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.
The houses at Roscarrock and Tresungers are listed buildings: at Roscarrock part of the medieval house remains and is Grade I listed; Tresungers farmhouse was built in the late 16th century. The Roscarrock family included Nicholas Roscarrock, whose book is a source of information on some of the Cornish saints, and probably also Francis Roscarrock and other British MPs called Roscarrock.
The public source identifies “St Endellion” as village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Endellion, village and civil.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3495314. Authority coordinates are 50.573, -4.830. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.
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This entry incorporates text from “St Endellion” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.